Pilgrim Goose
A variety of the Pilgrim Goose
Goose · White eggs · Laying
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About the Pilgrim Goose
The Pilgrim's defining feature is its natural autosexing plumage: ganders are predominantly white with grey rumps and faint colour traces in tail and wing, and have blue eyes, while geese are soft dove-grey with white facial markings ('spectacles') and dark brown eyes; both carry orange bills and legs. The sexes are even distinguishable as day-olds, ganders silver-yellow and geese olive-grey. One of only two sex-linked American goose breeds, the Pilgrim was admitted to the APA Standard in 1939 and is a calm, hardy dual-purpose heritage bird now listed as Threatened.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- White
- Eggs per year
- About 40
- Purpose
- Laying, Meat
- Sizes
- Medium
- Incubation
- 30 days
- Broodiness
- High
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure, Rare
- Auto-sexing
- Yes
- Origin
- United States
- Scientific name
- Anser anser domesticus