Baymule
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How exciting! They are so pretty. I can’t wait to hear more about them.
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Wow, striking!So back in November, @farmerjan and I met up at the Ohio National Poultry show in Columbus. We had a lot of fun looking at all the birds. I was hoping to find some white Chinese geese for sale, but all we could find were brown ones. We did see white ones being exhibited, although not for sale. Then we found an exhibitor showing BUFF Chinese geese! I had never even known that Chinese geese came in any other color than brown and white. These buff Chinese were very pretty!
So we took photos of the exhibitor number, and Jan looked them up in the show catalog and I took a screenshot of that. I was pretty excited because it turned out that they were from a town about an hour’s drive from my house!
So I waited until after the holidays and then I sent the guy a snail mail asking about the buff genetics and whether they ever sell any. (And I included my email and phone number so we wouldn’t have to be dependent on snail mail.)
And he texted me as soon as he got the letter! And it turns out, he had been planning to reduce his numbers a little bit. So we set up a meeting for today, and now I am the proud owner of 3 buff Chinese hens who will be 1 year old this spring!
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(I am posting this from the Rural King parking lot where we met. I’ll try to get more photos later at home, but sometimes that doesn’t work too well until they settle in some.)
SageHill
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That is soo great!!! Nice looking too. Some things are meant to be.
Mini Horses
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Love their coloring. You lucked out, they were close to you -- even tho the show wasn't. 
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I’m not sure which one, but one of these was one of the ones exhibited at the show. 
The young man (about the age of my youngest son) was happy to stand around and talk with me. I learned a lot.
He got his breeding stock from a breeder in Wisconsin. That person got the buff gene into the Chinese breed by cross breeding with American Buff geese, then continuing to breed back to brown Chinese to get the body shape and size back to the standard.
(The buff color is not in the standard, so they are just exhibited. They don’t compete against the browns and whites.) And since there is no written standard for how the buff color is supposed to look, it’s pretty much just up to each breeder what to select for. The main thing this man strives for is a dark and solid golden buff. Which I guess is hard because the sun likes to bleach it out. So when he’s showing, he keeps them locked up in the barn. Of course, then he gets a judge who prefers paler buff coloring.
They will be getting sun bleached at my place.
The young man (about the age of my youngest son) was happy to stand around and talk with me. I learned a lot.
He got his breeding stock from a breeder in Wisconsin. That person got the buff gene into the Chinese breed by cross breeding with American Buff geese, then continuing to breed back to brown Chinese to get the body shape and size back to the standard.
(The buff color is not in the standard, so they are just exhibited. They don’t compete against the browns and whites.) And since there is no written standard for how the buff color is supposed to look, it’s pretty much just up to each breeder what to select for. The main thing this man strives for is a dark and solid golden buff. Which I guess is hard because the sun likes to bleach it out. So when he’s showing, he keeps them locked up in the barn. Of course, then he gets a judge who prefers paler buff coloring.
They will be getting sun bleached at my place.
Baymule
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Sun bleached geese are happy geese.
