Goose

A Goose is a domesticated, medium-sized waterfowl, known for its large eggs and belligerent nature. Like all farm animals geese cannot be found in the wild, and must be purchased from traders.

Summary

Geese are pen animals. Once tamed, pen animals cannot and do not need to be trained any further. But if left outside of a pen or caravan hitching spot, pen animals will eventually roam outside your colony. Making a caravan is not required to tie animals to a caravan hitching spot.

A female goose produces 1 eggs every 2 days. Geese can lay both unfertilized and fertilized eggs, depending on if it has mated with a male goose.

Analysis

Eggs

An adult goose consumes 0.45 nutrition per day, and produces 0.25 nutrition of eggs each day, resulting in a nutrition efficiency of 55.8% when unfertilized eggs are eaten.

When eating eggs raw, geese are inferior to chickens. Chickens produce 2 half-size chicken eggs for 1 goose egg. As 2 hens consume less food than 1 goose, chickens are a better egg-layer. When eggs are allowed to hatch and are slaughtered as babies, chickens become even better for meat.

Note that geese produce birdskin if slaughtered as goslings, but chickens don't produce any leather.

Meat

When slaughtered, a goose yields 17 bird meat as a gosling; 42 as a juvenile; or 84 as an adult.

By slaughtering the geese rather than eating the unhatched fertilized egg, more nutrition is gained (0.85 rather than 0.5). When new-born goslings are slaughtered, an always-fertilized female goose produces 0.43 nutrition per day, resulting in a nutrition efficiency of 94.9% for the female goose alone. A 4:1 female:male ratio reaches an optimal fertilization rate. With this ratio of geese, you reach a nutrition efficiency of 75.9%.

A goose takes 7.2 days to become a juvenile, and a total of 12 days to reach adulthood. As a gosling grows into adulthood it will consume 2.9 nutrition in total, and will yield 3.35 more nutrition when slaughtered than it would as a baby. When slaughtered as adults, geese have a true nutrition efficiency of 104.4% (with a 4:1 female:male ratio).

Leather

In addition to meat, a goose yields 6 leather as a gosling; 18 as a juvenile; or 26 as an adult.

Birdskin isn't a particularly great leather, but it can be sold for some cash if you happen to be using geese in your colony.

Training

This animal can be trained as follows:

Guard:
Attack:
Rescue:
Haul:

*As of version 1.1.2610, all animals can be tamed. The percentage of likelihood of success depends on factors such as the Animals Wildness Percentage, Pawn Handling Skill, and others. More information can be found on the animals page.

Health

Body part	Health
Head	10
Skull	10
Brain	4
Nose	4
Neck	10
Jaw	8
Eye ^[1] (left, right)	4
Ear (left, right)	4
Body	16
Kidney^[2] (left, right)	6
Lung^[2] (left, right)	6
Liver^[2]	8
Heart^[2]	6
Spine^[2]	10
Stomach^[2]	8
Limbs (left, right, fore, hind)	12
Appendage (left, right, fore, hind)	8