LPM 222: Diversified poultry production and current concepts in poultry management and marketing [Livestock Production Management (Regional Interest)] (1+1)

INTRODUCTION

• The first poultry show of 1845 classified Common Geese, Asiatic or Knob Geese and `Any other variety'.
• The first Book of Standards described the Toulouse and Embden.
• Peculiarly enough, these two breeds monopolized our standards up to recent times, being the chief ones exhibited regularly at shows. At times, other breeds have been exhibited and now the standards have been extended.
• The Greylag is said to be the ancestor of all our domestic geese, and the common goose of this country was undoubtedly the English Grey, although a white variety existed, and the Grey Back (Saddleback) may have come from an intercross.
• The British Waterfowl Association classifies the following as wild geese: Canada, Egyptian and all species of British or foreign wild geese.