The poultry manual; a guide to successful poultry keeping in all its branches, fancy and practical . A Pair of Excellent Embden Geese. BREEDS OF GEESE Their Value for Utility Purposes—The Leading Varieties. All of the Standard varieties of geese, (Toulouse, Embden,African, Chinese, Canadian and Egyptian), were originated inforeign countries, though they have received much benefit fromthe handling of American breeders. They are usually profitablefor utility purposes. They live and remain useful as breedersuntil from twelve to twenty years old and instances are on rec-ord where they have bred fo
The poultry manual; a guide to successful poultry keeping in all its branches, fancy and practical . A Pair of Excellent Embden Geese. BREEDS OF GEESE Their Value for Utility Purposes—The Leading Varieties. All of the Standard varieties of geese, (Toulouse, Embden,African, Chinese, Canadian and Egyptian), were originated inforeign countries, though they have received much benefit fromthe handling of American breeders. They are usually profitablefor utility purposes. They live and remain useful as breedersuntil from twelve to twenty years old and instances are on rec-ord where they have bred for twenty-seven consecutive require new blood far less frequently than do domesticfowls and turkeys. One of the earliest breeders of Embdengeese is authority for the statement that a flock which originatedfrom six imported birds were kept for fifty years without add-ing new blood and without any depreciation of the value of theircharacteristics. Geese are becoming more and more in demand for their fleshand goose-fattening establishments, where geese are collectedfrom the farmers an
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