Scanderan goose breeding

In the absolute royal federation were the practice of breeding Scanderan geese a rather popular sport amongst the upper classes but due to massive legal action taken by the crown and condemnation by several religious authorities were the practice heavily regulated in the middle 20th century and today are by law only certainly qualified experts allowed to handle so called "pure breed Scanderan geese". Contrary to the dog breeding that were also carried out during the same time and the much earlier examples of breeding domesticated animals and dragons so did the goose breeding not circle around creating the finest breed of animals but rather were geese breed for the same things the nobility had always used them for. More specifically did this mean that they were breed entirely for guarding and fighting making the purer breed of geese aggressive to extreme levels and backed by a strength that can take on even larger predatory mammals and there have been stories about these pure breed geese taking on bears in extreme circumstances but they have also been known to take down smaller examples of wyverns.

Legal status

In the modern absolute royal federation so are purebred geese only legally able to be owned by trained professionals trained by certain animal handling academics due to the aggressive nature of the geese. Similarly are they not allowed to be held in close proximity to children and by law are required to have their wings clipped. Mostly are these animals kept simply for bragging rights and to show one's wealth rather than their originally intended purpose of guard animals and fighting birds.

History

The first references to geese breeding in the modern sense can be traced to the early 19th century when certain nobles started the honourable society of goose breeding with the purpose of breeding larger, stronger and more aggressive scanderan geese. The already large and aggressive bird proved to be easy to breed to give them those abilities. However due to several incidents where commoners and even nobles were killed by animals run rampant did the crown try to forbid the practice in 1812 but failed to effectively end it. Instead were it once again legalized in 1830 and under the new "royal goose breeding commission".

While a bit more successful in the start were the RGBC horrendously corrupt and often employed experts which themselves were goose breeders and tended to be rather favourable to the practice. Instead did the RGBC grow closer and closer to the honourable society of goose breeding and in 1834 did the RGBC officially sanction large goose breeding shows and fights. This close co-operation even led to that the head chairman of the honourable society of goose breeding Erik auf Österstjärn became the royal speaker for the RGBC in 1845.

Another attempt to outlaw the practice of geese breeding for the intention of creating large fighting geese was tried in 1930 but it was legalized just two years later again. Finally however did the crown decide that they had enough in 1960 when the RGBC was officially abolished and instead replaced by "the royal register for the breeding of fighting geese" that were put entirely under the control of the internal affairs advisory. The RRBFG however proved a bit better than their predecessor and the laws that demanded that someone that wished to breed geese needed to employ trained breeders that were sanctioned by the RRBFG.

However recently have the RRBFG come under fire since they have reportedly been more and more lax in issuing approvals for trained breeders which resulted in the death of two young children when a pure breed geese managed to break loose from an inexperienced trainer and run amok. Similarly have people accused the RRBFG of being corrupt and it have been more and more accommodating of the honourable society of goose breeding and investigation showed that the percent of members of both organisations have risen dramatically in recent years.

Purebred geese

A purebred goose is much larger than both it's wild counterparts and its more normal brothers employed by regular farmers and can reach heights of three meters with wingspawns of four meters. These tiny wings compared to it's already more muscular body have resulted in purebreed geese being all but unable to fly and the ones that can, can only do so for short periods of time. They have also been reported to have trouble with their legs and quickly develops problems with their knees that can force their owners to put the goose down. Similarly are the geese often inbreed and have a massive range of genetic disorders that are not found commonly amongst wild and domesticated geese. The massive powerful jaws and large beaks have also resulted in the geese having trouble developing properly in their eggs and it is not uncommon for at least a few geese in a breed to grow too large for their eggs and breaking them, or getting crushed in the egg before they can survive properly.

However when a purebred goose is born and have reached adulthood are they massive muscular creatures that attack quickly at even the slightest provocation and easily can rip a human apart with their powerful jaws and long powerful neck and muscular wings. Similarly have they been known to also tackle and crush unsuspecting humnoids that have dismissed them due to being, well geese. Even amongst other geese is this a massive problem and purebreds must be kept to themselves and are only allowed to meet other of their kind for mating. This is done simply because the geese tends to attack one another on sight and they have been known to also utterly kill entire flocks of normal giant geese and their smaller cousins, the regular goose.