Kuban goose

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The Kubangans is a Russian goose breed and is one of the hump geese that descend from the East Asian swan goose ( Anser cygnoides ).

description

The breed was bred by the poultry breeding group at the Kuban Institute for Agriculture (Southern Russia) by backcrossing Russian Gorki with hump geese. The animals have orange legs , but their beaks and frontal humps are black. The plumage color is brown. The fully grown gander weigh 5.0 to 5.5 kilograms. The weight of adult geese is between 4.5 and 5.0 kilograms. However, the rather dark skin and the dark quills make the plucked carcass unattractive to the consumer.

A second population of white Kuban geese was obtained by crossing white gorky geese with Ukrainian great gray geese ( Russian Крупная серая ), Emden geese and Lithuanian vishtines .

The breed becomes valuable for hybrid breeding programs . With her relatively high laying performance of 50 to 60, at the top up to 100 eggs per laying period and an average egg weight of 150 grams, she is suitable as a mother line. A prerequisite for a commercially successful crossbreed product, however, is that the resulting fattened goose is feathered white and the relatively slow weight gain of the Kuban geese is increased. The geese are fully developed by 240 to 250 days. The laying period lasts 7 months. The hatching rate is quite high at 75 to 90 percent.

The breed is well adapted to the climatic conditions of the Krasnodar Territory and adjacent areas.

distribution

The first population of the Cuban geese was widespread, mainly in the southern regions of Russia , furthermore to central Russia , the Volga region and in the Ukraine , Moldova and Kyrgyzstan . In 1974 there were 20,500 individuals of these geese, in 1980 there were 82,300. Their numbers later declined. In 2003, Russia reported 70,900 Cuban geese to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). In the same year the Ukraine reported 8,400 geese of the brown color. Here, however, the number of animals reported fluctuates considerably. The number rose to 15,843 by 2010 and was halved in the following year. In 2013, 6,800 animals were reported. As early as 1977, Kuban geese were exported from Krasnodar to Poland. Currently, a flock of around 470 geese is kept by the Water Fowl Research Center in Dworzyska .

literature

  • Roger Buckland, Gérard Guy: Goose Production . Ed .: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (=  FAO Animal Production and Health Paper . No. 154 ). 2002, ISBN 92-5104862-2 , ISSN  0254-6019 , Chapter 1. Origins and Breeds of Domestic Geese (English, online [accessed June 25, 2015] Section "Kuban ( Anser cygnoides )", from: Buckland, 1995) .
  • NG Dmitriev, LK Ernst: Animal genetic resources of the USSR . Ed .: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (=  FAO Animal Production and Health Paper . No. 65 ). Rome 1989, ISBN 92-5102582-7 , 14. Geese (English, online [accessed June 25, 2015] section “Kuban (Kubanskaya)”, according to: Buckland, 1995).

Footnotes

  1. ^ Roger Buckland, Gérard Guy: Goose Production . Ed .: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (=  FAO Animal Production and Health Paper . No. 154 ). 2002, ISBN 92-5104862-2 , ISSN  0254-6019 , Chapter 1. Origins and Breeds of Domestic Geese (English, online [accessed June 25, 2015] Section "Kuban ( Anser cygnoides )", from: Buckland, 1995) .
  2. ↑ Крупная серая , accessed June 25, 2015
  3. ^ A b NG Dmitriev, LK Ernst: Animal genetic resources of the USSR . Ed .: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (=  FAO Animal Production and Health Paper . No. 65 ). Rome 1989, ISBN 92-5102582-7 , 14. Geese (English, online [accessed June 25, 2015] section “Kuban (Kubanskaya)”, according to: Buckland, 1995).
  4. ↑ Juliusz Ksiazkiewicz, Helena Kontecka, Sebastian Nowaczewski: Nieśność i cechy jakosći oraz wyleģowosći jaj gęsi o roźnym pochodzeniu filogenetycznym . In: Instytut Zootechniki (ed.): Roczniki Naukowe Zootechniki . 2006, ISSN  0137-1657 , p. 74 f . (Polish, online [PDF; accessed June 26, 2015]).
  5. ^ Kuban / Russian Federation. In: Domestic Animal Diversity Information System (DAD-IS). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2015, accessed June 26, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Kubanian Gray / Ukraine. In: Domestic Animal Diversity Information System (DAD-IS). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2015, accessed June 26, 2015 .
  7. ^ Waterfowl Experimental Station Dworzyska, National Institute of Animal Production - NIoAP, Kraków
  8. ↑ Kubánská / Poland. In: Domestic Animal Diversity Information System (DAD-IS). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2015, accessed June 26, 2015 .