🪿 Pilgrim
Geese · breed reference
THE AUTO-SEXING GOOSE, and the reason this catalog carries that axis: ganders hatch creamy-white and stay white, geese hatch grey and keep a grey saddle with a white face — from the down, with no vent-sexing and no waiting a year. Geese are among the hardest poultry to sex, so this is worth far more than the same trait would be in a duck. Bred in Iowa in the 1930s by Oscar Grow, who named it for the family's own Depression-era move west. Livestock Conservancy: Threatened.
| Species | Goose |
|---|---|
| Kept for | Both |
| Eggs per year | ~35 |
| First eggs | ~48 weeks |
| Table-ready | ~16 weeks |
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