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One of our chickens hatched a couple of eggs about a month 3 weeks ago and was doing a brilliant job of raising them amonst all the other menagerie we have here. Gerald and Geraldine (geese) also hatched 2 goslings (we incubated 5) and are raising them free range. Unfortunately about 5 days...

Here we have Gerald and Geraldine with the 2 goslings they hatched themselves, 2 days ago. This is their 1st venture in to the big bad world with all the other animals and birds. Gerald is very gentle with them, but not with any other animal or human that comes near. We have hatched 5 of...

We have gone from getting 6 or 7 per day from 8 layers to 2 per day. I know why 3 have stopped laying, because they are molting and one of those has just sat on and hatched 2 eggs. We have by accident of birth ( we thought he was a she) now got 2 roosters. The younger one has got a little...

Yes, they do look the same don't they. It will be interesting to see what their goslings come out like. I'll take some photos of them tomorrow as they are starting to get their tufts now too. Gerald has a very distinct personality. He loves me most of the time, but as Geraldine is sitting on...

This is Gerald. Can someone please confirm if he is a Roman Tufted Goose please. If he is, how rare is he? Are they just rare in the US? I live in Hungary and he has a mate Geraldine who laid 31 eggs this year! I have successfully hatched 5 in my incubator.

I have a pair of Tufted Roam geese,Gerald and Geraldine. Geraldine has just started sitting on her eggs at last! She started laying in February and only finished last week. We have hatched 5 out of 7 eggs that we removed and put in the incubator. Yesterday when she came off the nest to feed I...

One of my year old hens has been broody for about a week( she started while I was away and hubbie was in charge). She was sitting on nothing and is also having a bad moult. She really does look a mess. To start with she was very aggressive, but now we can take her off every day to eat and...

One of my 3 day old Goslings is getting "cleaned" obsessively on his back by the others, 1 in particular, to the point now where he is sore. I have put some toys in the brooder which distracts them for a few seconds then it resumes again. I tried separating it from the others but is spent...

Here are some pictures of our Goslings. I have included a photo of the straddle legged Gosling in it's box yesterday.It didn't stay in there long, even with it's legs tied together lol For my next query..... Is it likely that one of the Goslings is being picked on by the other two? Every...

I've removed the sawdust and replaced it with an old towel. The 3rd gosling is walking and running about fine now, panic over.

Thanks for info, I've taken the sawdust out and put an old towel in.

I think I may put an old towel over the top of the sawdust tomorrow, they are all settled for the night now.

Thanks for the link Miss Lydia, I originally put them on paper, but realised quite quickly that it was no good and changed it for rough sawdust. 2 of the chicks are perfect, running and jumping around, the 3rd one still has a problem but I keep setting it back on it's feet and even help hold it...

Thanks Flockman. That guide has become my guru over the past year, but it is quite wordy and my poor old brain sometimes does not take it all in ha ha!

All the goslings are doing well, one of them is now standing up properly, but the other two don't seem to be able to find their legs. Is that normal at this stage? They look a bit pathetic with their legs and big feet sticking out either side of them.