Porch goose sizes, in one table.
Coverage, 19 September 2026
- 18 of 76 published by anybody.
- 0 of 76 measured the same way. 0 of 19 with a neck, girth or head.
Sorted by kind, then by maker.
The registry, v0
| Flag | What this is | Maker | Height, as published | Where the tape starts | Neck circumference | Body girth | Head circumference | How we know |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The geese | ||||||||
| ✓ Published | Giddy the Goose, metal | Evergreen | 21″ | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | myevergreen.com — Giddy the Goose Read 18 Sep 2026 |
| ✓ Published | Georgie | Evergreen | 13″ | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | myevergreen.com — Giddy the Goose Read 18 Sep 2026 |
| ✓ Published | Gordy, resin | Evergreen | 8″ | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | myevergreen.com — Giddy the Goose Read 18 Sep 2026 |
| ✓ Published | “Large” statue | Gaggleville — Miles Kimball / Colibri | 23″ Also publishes 12″ wide × 8″ deep. Those are outside dimensions of the statue. A width is not a girth and we have not converted it into one. | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | mileskimball.com — goose outfits Read 18 Sep 2026 |
| ✓ Published | “Baby” statue | Gaggleville — Miles Kimball / Colibri | 17″ Also publishes 14.5″ long × 7″ wide. Again: outside dimensions, not a girth. | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | mileskimball.com — goose outfits Read 18 Sep 2026 |
| ~ Reported | Mainstays goose | Walmart, private label | 19″ Reported in the press, not read off a manufacturer page. Walmart’s own site was unreachable to us (captcha). | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | Best Life, 16 Feb 2026 Read 18 Sep 2026 |
| The outfits | ||||||||
| ✓ Published | Outfits, one size | Dress My Goose | 24″–27″ Verbatim: “Fits large plastic or cement goose, 24″ to 27″ tall.” This range starts above the 23″ goose, which is the commonest one in the hobby. | ? Unknown Says “tall”; does not say from where. | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | dressmygoose.com Read 18 Sep 2026 |
| ✗ None published | Giddy the Goose outfits | Evergreen | ? Unknown A collection of more than 170 outfits with no size chart at all. The only fit statement is “Each outfit is tailored to his size and shape” — his, meaning Giddy’s, and no dimension is given for a garment. | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | myevergreen.com — Giddy collection Read 18 Sep 2026; re-checked 19 Sep 2026 |
| ✓ Published | “Fits Large 23″ Statue” | Gaggleville — Miles Kimball / Colibri | 23″ A tier label, tied to their own statue. The only closed tier system anybody publishes. | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | mileskimball.com — goose outfits Read 18 Sep 2026 |
| ✓ Published | “Fits Baby 17″ Statue” | Gaggleville — Miles Kimball / Colibri | 17″ | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | mileskimball.com — goose outfits Read 18 Sep 2026 |
| ✓ Published | “Fits 7″H Desktop Goose” | Gaggleville — Miles Kimball / Colibri | 7″ The desk tier is now big enough to be in the name of the hobby’s main buy-and-sell group. | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | mileskimball.com — goose outfits Read 18 Sep 2026 |
| ✓ Published | Collection fit target | GooseOutfit | 23″ Stated as a design target — “Designed around the classic 23-inch porch goose” — not as a measurement of anything. This is the one seller that publishes a method for all four measurements, and it publishes no measured value for any goose, its own included. | ! Bottom of the feet or base → highest point of the head Verbatim. It is the same quantity Heartland Flags asks for on one of its pages and not on the other. | ? Unknown Tells you how to take it. Publishes no value. | ? Unknown Tells you how to take it. Publishes no value. | ? Unknown Not in their method at all. | gooseoutfit.com — fit guide Read 19 Sep 2026 |
| ! Conflicts | Porch goose clothes — collection page | Heartland Flags | ! 23″–27″ See note 1. | ! Base → top of the head | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | heartlandflags.com/collections/porch-goose-clothes Read 18 Sep 2026; re-read 19 Sep 2026 |
| ! Conflicts | Porch goose outfits — collection page | Heartland Flags | ! 22″–24″ See note 1. |
! Chest → ground ! Base of the neck → ground Two different instructions, both on this one page, on the same day. |
? Unknown | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | heartlandflags.com/collections/porch-goose-outfits Read 18 Sep 2026; re-read 19 Sep 2026 |
| ! Conflicts | “Daisy Porch Goose Outfit for 21 Inch Goose” | Heartland Flags | ! 21″ A single product, sitting inside the collection whose own copy says 23″–27″. See note 1. | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | heartlandflags.com — product title within the 23–27″ collection Read 19 Sep 2026 |
| ✓ Published | Outfits, two sizes | porchgooseoutfits.com | 23″ and 7″ “Custom-sized for the 23-inch geese.” Does not differentiate plastic from concrete. | ? Unknown Asks you for a height and a width, but does not say where either one starts. | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | porchgooseoutfits.com Read 18 Sep 2026 |
| ✓ Published | Sewing pattern S3158 | Simplicity | 23″ (59 cm) The only claim on this page that gives a metric figure, and the only dimensioned specification in the category that comes from a pattern house rather than a goose seller. | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | simplicity.com — S3158 Read 18 Sep 2026 |
| ✓ Published | Complete holiday outfit | The Depot, Lakeview OH | 22″–28″ The widest single claim we found: six inches of tolerance in one “large”. | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | thedepotlakeviewohio.com Read 18 Sep 2026 |
| ~ Reported | “Large 23–27” outfit category | The Kraft Korner | 23″–27″ Read from the category address only. The storefront itself would not open for us — the TLS handshake failed — so nobody here has seen the page copy. | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | ? Unknown | thekraftkorner.com — category address Attempted 18 Sep 2026, site unreachable |
On a narrow screen this table is shown as one card per row; on a wide screen it scrolls sideways as a grid. It is the same table either way.
How to read the flags
- ✓ Published Green, solid rule — the maker or seller publishes this number itself.
- ! Conflicts Amber, dashed rule — this claim contradicts another claim on this page. See note 1.
- ~ Reported Grey, dotted rule — published somewhere other than the maker’s own page, or read from a page we could not fully reach.
- ✗ None published Red, double rule — this seller publishes no size.
- ? Unknown A cell with nothing in it. Checked, empty, stippled.
- ◆ OURS Porch Flock’s own rows, when there are any. There are none today. They will sit in the maker column at the same weight as every other maker.
The arithmetic behind the figure at the top of this page. Nineteen rows, from ten makers. Four measurements are tracked for each row — height, neck circumference, body girth, head circumference — so 19 × 4 = 76 cells. Eighteen of them have a published value and every single one of the 18 is a height. That is 18 of 76, or 24 per cent. None of the 18 was measured by us — we have not put a tape on a goose yet. You can count them in the table above.
The table is in two parts. The geese are what a maker says one of its own statues measures. The outfits are what a seller says an outfit will fit. Within each part the order is by maker name, and that is the whole of the sort rule.
Every number in a row comes from that row’s source, on that row’s date. Where a source publishes nothing for a measurement, the cell reads ? Unknown. It means we looked and found nothing published. If a cell cannot be filled honestly it stays empty, and the figure at the top of this page goes down.
Notes on the table
Note 1. Four instructions, three different quantities
Three rows above are flagged ! Conflicts and all three belong to one shop. Here is what its two goose collections said on 19 September 2026, verbatim.
“Measure your … statue from the base to the top of the head before ordering” — with “fit geese between 23 and 27 inches tall”.
heartlandflags.com/collections/porch-goose-clothes, read 19 Sep 2026
“measure your goose from chest to ground. Most of our goose clothes fit geese 22 to 24 inches tall”.
heartlandflags.com/collections/porch-goose-outfits, read 19 Sep 2026
“Measure your goose from the base of the neck to the ground to confirm fit before ordering”.
heartlandflags.com/collections/porch-goose-outfits — the same page, further down, the same day
Base to the top of the head, chest to the ground, and the base of the neck to the ground are three different lengths on the same bird, and the gaps between them are larger than the two-inch difference between the two published ranges. A fourth claim sits inside the first collection: a product titled “Daisy Porch Goose Outfit for 21 Inch Goose”, two inches below the range its own collection page states.
We have not merged these into an average, a “best guess” or a single tidy row. Each one is kept as its own row with its own address and its own date. A shopper reading either page in good faith cannot tell which number applies to them.
Note 2. Every published measurement is a height
Nineteen rows, and not one neck, girth or head circumference anywhere. Garments close around a body and hats go over a head; a height is a weak proxy for both. One seller, GooseOutfit, publishes a clear method for taking three of the four. It publishes no resulting number for any goose, including its own.
Note 3. “Large” is not a size
Five of the claims above are ranges: 22–24, 22–28, 23–27, 23–27 and 24–27 inches. Four distinct ranges, spanning 22 to 28 inches, every one of them called “large”. The other thirteen claims are a single number, and between them they use seven different heights: 7, 8, 13, 17, 19, 21 and 23 inches. Dress My Goose’s range starts at 24″, which means a stock 23″ goose — the commonest goose in the hobby — is undersize for that entire catalogue.
Note 4. Three of nineteen say where to put the tape
Fifteen rows publish a number and no instruction for producing it. One publishes neither. The three that do say where the tape goes give four instructions describing three different quantities, and three of those four come from one shop. Until sellers agree where the tape starts, two honest people can measure the same goose and disagree by several inches, and both be right.
Note 5. What is not here, and why that lowers the number at the top
- The classic Union Products plastic lawn goose is missing. It is very probably the most common goose in the hobby, and 23″ is widely used as its height, but we have not opened a manufacturer page that publishes a dimension for it. So it has no row. Adding a row we cannot source would raise the coverage figure and lower its worth.
- Seventeen different goose heights are in circulation across catalogues, tutorials and group posts, from 6″ to 29″. Six of them have a maker-published statue number on this page. The other eleven have none anywhere we could find.
- No seller distinguishes plastic from concrete, though concrete geese are cast to different patterns by different regional yards and are the ones most likely to differ. There is no published plastic-versus-concrete fit difference for us to record.
- No photographs. We have not photographed these geese. Photographs arrive when we own a tape measure and a camera and have stood in front of the object.
- No member reports yet. When somebody tells us an outfit went on, that will be shown as its own line, kept separate from what a vendor states and from what we measured ourselves.
How we measure
Four measurements, always in the same order, always from the same places. We publish the method as well as the numbers so that anybody with a tape measure and a goose can check us in ten minutes. We would rather be corrected than believed.
- A — Height. From the underside of the base to the highest point of the head, with the goose standing as it stands on your step. Not from the chest. Not from the neck. If your goose has no base, say so, and measure from the ground.
- B — Neck circumference. All the way around the neck at its widest point — the widest place a collar or a garment opening has to pass over. This is the number that decides most of what fits.
- C — Body girth. All the way around the fullest part of the body, including the wings if the outfit will cover them.
- D — Head circumference. All the way around the crown, in front of the eyes and behind the bill. Nobody in the category publishes this, which is why no hat can be promised to fit.
Three kinds of knowledge, never mixed. A number we measured ourselves, a number a vendor states, and a number members report are three different things. They will always be shown on three separate lines, each labelled. Today every number on this page is the second kind.
GooseOutfit’s fit guide publishes a clear four-part method of its own, and A, B and C above ask for essentially the quantities it asks for. Anybody publishing a method is making this easier. What is still missing is the filled-in answer.
Measure your goose
This is how the empty cells get filled. No account and no sign-up. Fill in whatever you know — a height on its own is worth having, and a neck measurement is the most useful thing you can send us — then copy the slip and send it, or paste it straight into your group where somebody will recognise the goose. Leave anything blank that you do not know. Blank is fine. Guessing is not.
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Where these came from
Every row above links to the page it was read from and gives the date it was read. Pages change; ours says when it was last right. If one of these has changed since, tell us and we will date the correction and leave the old figure on the page.
- Gaggleville — Miles Kimball / Colibri read 18 Sep 2026
- Evergreen — Giddy the Goose and the Giddy collection read 18 Sep 2026, re-checked 19 Sep 2026
- Dress My Goose read 18 Sep 2026
- Heartland Flags — porch goose clothes and porch goose outfits read 18 Sep 2026, re-read 19 Sep 2026
- GooseOutfit — fit guide read 19 Sep 2026
- porchgooseoutfits.com read 18 Sep 2026
- The Depot, Lakeview OH read 18 Sep 2026
- Simplicity pattern S3158 read 18 Sep 2026
- The Kraft Korner — category address attempted 18 Sep 2026, storefront unreachable
- Best Life, 16 Feb 2026 — the Walmart Mainstays 19″ read 18 Sep 2026