Blue Steinbacher
A variety of the Steinbacher
Goose · White eggs · Meat
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About the Blue Steinbacher
The blue is the Steinbacher's signature and the only variety recognised by the American Poultry Association. Unusually for a blue breed, it comes true: pure homozygous birds show a soft, even pale lavender-blue, while heterozygous birds run to a darker blue, so blue x blue reliably yields blue offspring rather than the blue/black/splash split seen in most poultry. The pale plumage sets off the breed's hallmark orange bill outlined in black.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- White
- Eggs per year
- About 30
- Purpose
- Meat, Ornamental
- Sizes
- Medium
- Incubation
- 30 days
- Broodiness
- Moderate
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure, Rare
- Origin
- Germany
- Scientific name
- Anser anser domesticus