Heritage Goose
Sold out for 2011. Please check back in 2012!
Whole Goose – $50.00
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Frequently Asked Questions
How do Geese on Olive Hill Spend Their Lives? Are they Really Free-Range?
What do the Geese on Olive Hill Eat?
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American Buff Geese were developed in North America and admitted to the American Poultry’s Standard of Perfection in 1947, admittedly we’re fond of those varieties of animals that originated in North America and have a rich, relatively recent history here. Those aren’t however, the qualities that most attracted us to the American Buff. Its naturally docile disposition, excellent parenting and naturally mating abilities and its claim to fame as the largest of the medium-class geese breeds were what drew us to raising the American Buffs for meat. And though we don’t have any white geese, such as Embdens to compare with, it’s also rumored that the Buff’s apricot-fawn feathering is more easily plucked during processing and results in a more attractive final product.
How Do The Geese on Olive Hill Spend Their Lives? Are They Really Free-Range?
Covered in down, geese are particularly unfazed by even the most severe of Mother Nature’s elements. Preferring to spend even cold, snowy nights under the stars, that’s exactly where our geese are at nightfall; sleeping under the stars most of the year, they choose to utilize the straw-bedded goose houses they’re provided only occasionally. During the day they can be found mowing the lawn, weeding the gardens — geese have a voracious appetite for fresh leafy greens — and bathing in their “pond” — a large kiddy pool that is visible from the road — often slowing passersby as they tend to put on quite a show splashing, flapping and honking.
What Do The Geese on Olive Hill Eat?
While free-ranging both day and night the geese satiate a majority of their appetite with fresh leafy greens; grasses, legumes and broad-leafed weeds. And though they eat little of it they also have free-choice access to the same locally grown and custom milled poultry feed as the Chicken and Turkeys.
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