Shetland Goose
A variety of the Shetland Goose
Goose · White eggs · Laying
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About the Shetland Goose
The Shetland's plumage is sex-linked and readable from hatch: ganders are pure white with blue eyes, while geese carry a grey-and-white saddleback pattern — grey shoulders, secondary flights and thigh coverts over a largely white head, neck and underbody, with pink beak and legs throughout. This natural auto-sexing makes pairs easy to sort without handling. A small, exceptionally hardy heritage grazer from the Shetland Islands, it thrives on rough ground and sits on the RBST Watchlist as a vulnerable UK breed.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- White
- Eggs per year
- About 25
- Purpose
- Laying, Meat
- Sizes
- Light
- Incubation
- 30 days
- Broodiness
- High
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure, Rare
- Auto-sexing
- Yes
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Scientific name
- Anser anser domesticus