Cotton Patch Goose

About the Cotton Patch Goose

The single autosexing plumage that defines the breed: ganders are all- or mostly-white with at most a little dove-grey, while geese are mostly dove-grey (sometimes pied with white across the face and wing tips), so the sexes can be told apart from hatch. All birds carry the breed's distinctive blue eyes. A slim, heat-hardy old Southern landrace once used to weed cotton and corn, it remains a self-reliant utility goose and is now critically rare and in need of conservation breeders.