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🪿 African

Geese · breed reference

NOT AFRICAN — it's a swan-goose breed out of China, and the name was a nineteenth-century mistake nobody bothered to fix. TELLING IT FROM THE CHINESE, which is the same species: the African is heavy and carries a DEWLAP, the fold of skin under the chin, on top of the forehead knob; the Chinese is slim, light and knobbed with no dewlap. The heaviest goose that still lays well. THE KNOB CAN FROSTBITE — give shelter in hard cold, or it blackens and sloughs.