At a glance
- Origin
- United States
- Scientific name
- Anser anser domesticus
- Eggs per year
- ~35
- Egg colour
- White
- Incubation
- 30 days
- Broodiness
- High
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Sizes
- Medium
- Purpose
- Laying, Meat
- Purity
- Pure, Rare
- Auto-sexing
- Yes
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.
Available clutches
No clutches available right now.
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