Brecon Buff Goose

The Brecon Buff Goose is a breed of domestic geese originating in Wales.

Origin

The Brecon Buff Goose was selected by Rhys Llewellyn, B.A., of The Court, St. Fagans, Swansea, South Wales. In 1929, while motoring in the Brecon Beacons he noticed a buff-coloured goose among a large flock of white and grey geese, and purchased this female with the intention of producing a breed of goose of this colour. Llewellyn was unable to procure a gander of the buff colour and mated a white Embden gander of small stature to the goose, which resulted in all of the goslings being grey in colour. Two more buff-coloured females were obtained from the original source and mated to one of the grey ganders, producing several buff goslings, among which was a gander of good shape and sound buff colouring. Llewellyn was able to mate up an all-buff breeding pen and, by 1934, the buff geese were breeding 100 percent. true to type and colour. The standard for the Brecon Buff Goose was accepted at the Poultry Club's meeting of October 12, 1934, and initially published in The Feathered World October 19, 1934, and appears in the next issue of the British Poultry Standards in 1954. ^[1]^[2]

Description

The plumage is buff. The Brecon Buff Goose is distinguished from its larger relative, the American Buff Goose, not only by its weight but also by its pink feet and beak, which are characteristic of this breed. Gander's weight is 7,3-9,1 kg, female weights 6,3-8,2 kg.

References

↑ The Feathered World, Oct. 19, 1934.p.536
↑ Llewellyn, Rhys.The Feathered World, Oct. 26,1934. p.568

Cattle

Beef cattle	Angus Belted Galloway Devon Dexter English Longhorn Hereford Highland Luing Shorthorn South Devon Sussex Welsh Black

Dairy cattle	Ayrshire Guernsey Jersey Milking Shorthorn

Dual purpose	British White Gloucester Pembroke Red Poll

Primitive	Chillingham wild cattle Vaynol White Park cattle

Sheep

Extant	Beulah Speckled Face Bluefaced Leicester Border Leicester British Milk Cheviot Clun Forest Cotswold Dalesbred Derbyshire Gritstone Devon Closewool Devon Longwoolled Dorset Down English Leicester Exmoor Horn Galway Greyface Dartmoor Hampshire Herdwick Hill Radnor Kerry Hill Lincoln Llanwenog Lleyn Lonk Norfolk Horn Oxford Down Portland Romney Rough Fell Ryeland Scottish Blackface Shetland Shropshire Southdown sheep Suffolk Swaledale Teeswater Welsh Mountain Wensleydale Whitefaced Woodland Wiltshire Horn

Primitive	Boreray Castlemilk Moorit Hebridean Jacob Manx Loaghtan North Ronaldsay Soay

Extinct	Scottish Dunface

Pigs

Extant	Berkshire British Landrace British Lop British Saddleback Essex Gloucestershire Old Spots Hampshire Large Black Large White Middle White Oxford Sandy and Black Tamworth Welsh Wessex Saddleback

Extinct	Cumberland Grice Lincolnshire Curly-coated Small Black Small White Yorkshire Blue and White

Goats

Anglo-Nubian Bilberry British Alpine Golden Guernsey Irish

Poultry

Chickens	Burford Brown Cornish Derbyshire Redcap Dorking Ixworth Marsh Daisy Modern Game Modern Langshan Norfolk Grey Old English Game Old English Pheasant Fowl Orpington Rosecomb Scots Dumpy Scots Grey Sebright Sussex

Ducks	Abacot Ranger Aylesbury Orpington Khaki Campbell Magpie Shetland Welsh harlequin

Geese	Brecon Buff Shetland

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Brecon Buff Goose

Origin

Description

References

See also