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The Emden is the oldest goose breed of the area that is now Germany, with origins believed to go back to the thirteenth century. It derives from the traditional large white geese of the East Frisia region of north-western Germany; these had a long curved neck and so were sometimes known as Schwanengans or "swan geese". [11]
A domestic goose is a goose that humans have domesticated and kept for their meat, eggs, or down feathers, or as companion animals.Domestic geese have been derived through selective breeding from the wild greylag goose (Anser anser domesticus) and swan goose (Anser cygnoides domesticus).
Guard geese have been used throughout history, and in modern times. In ancient Rome, geese are credited by the historian Livy for giving the alarm when Gauls invaded (see Battle of the Allia ). [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Geese were subsequently revered in the supplicia canum annual sacrifice, and the Romans later founded a temple to Juno, to whom the ...
The word "goose" is a direct descendant of Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns.In Germanic languages, the root gave Old English gōs with the plural gēs and gandra (becoming Modern English goose, geese, gander, respectively), West Frisian goes, gies and guoske, Dutch: gans, ganzen, ganzerik, New High German Gans, Gänse, and Ganter, and Old Norse gās and gæslingr, whence English gosling.
The emperor goose (Anser canagicus), also known as the beach goose [6] or the painted goose, [7] is a waterfowl species in the family Anatidae, which contains the ducks, geese, and swans. In summer, the emperor goose is found in remote coastal areas near the Bering Sea in arctic and sub-arctic Alaska and the Russian Far East , where it breeds ...
The museum has a selection of typical farm animals, including Southdown sheep, Sussex chickens and Embden geese. Sussex Saddlebacks has loaned the museum some rare saddleback pigs. In addition the museum has some Percheron horses to pull the various horse-drawn vehicles and implements. [73]
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. ... Embden, an ancient name of the city ... Other uses. Embden (goose), a German breed of domestic goose; People ...
The Australian Poultry Standards is the primary benchmark of exhibition poultry in Australia, covering chickens, turkey, geese, ducks and guinea fowl. [ 1 ] Chickens