For sale - Pilgrim geese - Somerset

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I have an 09 pair and spare ganders. They are delightful birds. A gentle natured autosexing breed with white blue eyed ganders and grey brown eyed geese. Reared with and used to chickens and ducks. Critically rare. £60 for a fully feathered pair.

Enquiries welcome, photos available. See www.steepleducks.co.uk for some further information.
 
What lovely photos you have on your website...

I would have definitely considered these.. a good buy too but I'm holding out for a pair of Brecon Buffs next year if I can get them.

Tim
 
We have recently acquired our first geese - a breeding trio of Brecon Buffs - they are wonderful. So much so, that I feel I will need to pop back and fetch the others that were available. We paid £20 per bird which I think is very reasonable. They are in the field next to the Tamworth pigs and vocalise any time I try and sneak out the side door to hang the washing out - which in turn gets the piggies in "hey girls- there she is again - wonder what grub she's got this time" mode. They are a fabulous combination and the geese are happy just wombling about - they share a big area with some Jacob sheep, have hens popping through the fence to see what they might have better over their bit and seem to converse with the pigs. They are totally non-stressy even though Alexander .... (the gander....!) gets a bit hissy and silly - but we just take no notice and he quits his carry on. The sheep are going incidentally - in favour of more birds - no contest! Happy smiley days
 
Yes, if you raise them yourself they can be very tame. If an aggressive goose raises them, they are most probably going to end up as 'bin lid jobs' :o

I'd love pigs - they do sound amazing.
 
The geese will be so much less trouble than the sheep.

I took my sister on a pig keeping course for her birthday present, the roast pork and crackling lunch was fantastic. When we looked at the pigs at the Bath & West Show Prince Charles came through. I just took a photo of Tamworths at Boyton Wiltshire, driving past a mum, her very little piglets asleep in the sun under a beech tree, they just blended in amongst the autumn colouring leaves.
 
Well ..... went back for the other Brecons that were available - so now have 6 (there might be a second younger gander amonst the newcomers, but hard to tell just now). They are delightful - people reel back in horror when I tell them that we have geese and that they wander willy-nilly all over the place - I pulled up in the car the other day and the 6 of them were sitting on the driveway at the front door step. They gave a bit of a honk - I bid them a good afternoon and asked them how they'd been and what they'd been up to. They tilted their heads to one side as if they were listening to everything I was saying and then wandered off to chat amongst themselves. Never did get an answer! But not a smidge of aggression at all - they totter up to their hut when we go out to put them out of Charlie's way for the night - all quite happily. I am smitten - can't wait until they start laying and hatching their own young. So for all of you who have had bad goose experiences or a mind-set that is a bitty anti-goose - take heart - these Brecon Buffs are sweethearts. As for the Tamworths - well again - generally there's a sharp intake of breath at the admission to having Tams - well I love 'em. My first piggies and they are behaving beautifully and are such characters. Tis a happy place here - just want a drake for my lone muscovy cos she's a darlin' too and just mucking in and plodding on with the rest.
 
I second that Nisbet,the three brecon buffs that used to belong to my friends were delightfull.Whenever I went to their lake they would swim over and follow me about on the land.The gander was bolder and did sometimes tell the hens not to trust me(whilst eating out of my hand)but only because he wanted the food :D .
Their lake isn't the same with out the geese,but they gave them to a local farmer after finding gypsies poaching the fish from the lake,thought they might come back for the geese.
A lot of people were not so keen on the geese,I found them entertaining and friendly.
 
I think it is perhaps the embden cross meat types that gave geese a bad press.

I've found geese to be delightful, so pleased to see you. The thrill of walking up the paddock joined by a group of honking, wing flapping, big, beautiful birds has to be experienced. I don't know how anyone can be depressed or low with such cheerful idiots for company.
 
Hi, I still have the 09 pair available and one spare gander.

I've got homes for 2 other spare ganders - delivering one to Padstow & combining it with a visit to the Devon & Cornwall Waterfowl show on Sunday. So if anyone else down there wants some fresh blood, I know there's a few Pilgrims already down there. They are true & autosexing.

Latest photo www.steepleducks.co.uk
 
The pair have now gone to a new home locally but I have one 09 gander still available and living with his mum & dad.
 
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