Breeding since 2017 in Simsboro, Louisiana. Shipped to all 48 contiguous states.

Grey Sebastopol Geese

Grey is the ancestral colour of the breed, the same pattern a wild greylag carries: a grey brown head and neck, a scalloped grey back where each feather is edged in a paler shade, and a white belly. Every other Sebastopol colour is a dilution of grey or a pattern laid over one.

Availability. We are running grey birds now. Numbers and ages change through the season, so tell us what you are after and we will say what is on the ground. Adults are on the geese page, with juveniles, goslings and hatching eggs alongside.

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Grey Photographs

Our own birds, photographed on the farm. Click any photo to see it full size.

Grey Sebastopol goose showing scalloped grey breast feathers — Grey

Grey Sebastopol goose facing the camera in full curl — Grey

Grey Sebastopol goose in grass with a buff goose behind — Grey

Grey

Flock of grey Sebastopol geese in open pasture — Grey

Grey is the colour that shows off the feather structure best. Because each feather is edged paler than its centre, the scalloping runs out along the long curled feathers of the back and wings and you can read the shape of the curl at a glance. On a white bird the same structure is there but far harder to see.

It is also the starting point for understanding everything else. Dilute grey cool and you move toward lavender and blue. Dilute it warm and you get buff, and dilute that again for lilac. Restrict the colour to the head, neck and back and you have a saddleback.

Greys are more widely available than the dilutes and generally cost less, which makes them a sensible place to start if you want coloured birds without waiting on a list.