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

Part Name	Health	Quantity	Coverage^[1]	Target Chance^[2]	Subpart of	Capacity^[3]	Effect if Destroyed/Removed
Body	16	1	100%	19%	N/A^[4]	-	Death
Tail	4	1	10%	10%	Body	-	-
Spine	10	1	5%	5%	Body	Moving	−100% Moving^[5]
Stomach	8	1	4%	4%	Body	Digestion	−50% Digestion
Heart	6	1	3%	3%	Body	Blood Pumping	Death
Lung	6	2	4%	4%	Body	Breathing	−50% Breathing. Death if both lost.
Kidney	6	2	3%	3%	Body	Blood Filtration	−50% Blood Filtration. Death if both lost.
Liver	8	1	5%	5%	Body	Digestion	−50% Digestion
Neck	10	1	20%	5%	Body	Eating Talking Breathing	Death
Head	10	1	75%	3.1%	Neck	-	Death
Skull	10	1	30%	1.8%	Head	-	Cannot be destroyed. Increasing Pain based on damage.
Brain	4	1	60%	2.7%	Skull	Consciousness	Death Damage always results in scarring.
Eye	4	2	12%	1.8%	Head	Sight	−25% Sight. −100% if both lost. Damage always results in scarring. 0% Hit Chance against Blunt damage.
Beak	8	1	25%	3.8%	Head	Eating Talking Manipulation	−100% Manipulation −90% Eating^[6]
Leg	12	2	10%	5%	Body	Moving	−50% Moving. −100% if both lost.
Foot	10	2	50%	5%	Leg	Moving	−50% Moving. −100% if both lost.

↑ Coverage determines the chance to hit this body part. It refers to the percentage of the super-part that this part covers, before its own sub-parts claim their own percentage. For example, if the base coverage of the super-part is 100%, and the coverage of the part is 20%, 20% of hits would hit the part, and 80% the super-part. If the part had its own sub-part with 50% coverage, the chances would be 10% sub-part, 10% part, 80% super part.
↑ Target Chance is the actual chance for each part to be be selected as the target when each part's coverage has been taken into account(I.E. Neck covers 7.5% of Torso but Head covers 80% of Neck so it actually has only a 1.5% chance to be selected). This is not pure hit chance, as different damage types propagate damage in different ways. See that page for details.
↑ Note that capacities can affect other capacities in turn. Only the primary effect is listed. See specific pages for details.
↑ This is the part that everything else connects to to be considered 'connected'.
↑ If Moving drops below 16% a pawn cannot move.
↑ Note that eating won't go below 10%.