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We have 12 female African geese (and 12 males). They have laid over 200 eggs so far this spring, however only ONE girl has gone broody and that was 28 days ago (she has a couple of eggs that have internally pipped) Is there som,e way to promote broodiness in these other girls??

We have 17 adult African geese, 8 of which are female. This spring, they have laid many many eggs. However, only two have gone broody (it looks like our youngest may go broody soon). Eggs have spoiled in the nests. We noiw have 9 viable eggs in the incubator, but does anyone have an idea why...

One of our young African geese hatched out two goslings. As usual, she has lost quite a bit of weight sitting on her nest for 30 days (she is a small goose to begin with) Now she is beginning to sit on another nest. Our African/Toulouse cross gander and his mate are caring for the goslings while...

We donated some duck and chicken eggs to a teacher friend for her class to hatch. They got two chickens and one duck hatched and returned to us The duck thinks he is a chicken....he even trys to sound like one. They are big enough now, that we are introducing them to the ducks and chickens we...

It is with a sad heart that I announce that Sissy, our favorite goose several days ago. Here she is with David Brauner. We hatched her 2 years ago and she really bonded with us. She was blind in one eye, but got along well.She hatched out 5 goslings last year, but had not laid an egg yet this...

Morning all! This morning as I let the beasties out, I was doing the usual scanning of the flock and noticed that Ronson has a swelling under his beak. He's a juvenile male African who's entering his adolescence. We'll corner him and bring him in for a checkup later, once the blizzard stops...

We will start incubating our 2nd batch of eggs today. 12 went into the incubator last Sat. 10 Will go in today. We us my grandfathers old sears incubator. (It is older than I am). We have a second newer incubator that the eggs go into at lockdown time.

It is -22 this morning. We have fed and given clean water to our geese, chickens and ducks. The outside faucet is frozen, so we are toting buckets from the bathroom to the goose pen and chicken/duck coop. Pen and coop temperature were in the mid 30s. The geese are not happy with being stuck...

It is -22 here this morning, with a stiff breeze. We have fed and given clean water to the geese ducks and chickens. The goose pen and the chicken/duck coop were in the mid 30s. The geese are NOT happy about being "stuck inside". We did bring our "pet" one eyed goose inside this morning, let her...

If you're one to be iffy about the idea of raising ducks for meat...stop reading here. I do not want to offend anyone. My husband and I decided to raise a flock of meat ducks this last summer, and I decided to use their down and feathers for a comforter. I wanted to make sure to get as much...

One of your pekin ducks is limping badly. We brought him inside to check him out and noticed a large lump on top of one of his toes. It looks like there is a small scratch on the bottom of his foot..applied antibiotic ointment there Pic of the swelling, which is warm to the touch: He is...

Watching and praying for one of our hatchlings. We cam home from work to find him/her on their back, unable to stand. Suspecting it was the heat/dehydration (although there was plenty of water and they had their pool) No sign of any trauma, and the other 7 are fine. Fred (his/her fellow...

Mother goose with our african goslings. Three we hatched, the other came from Ideal.