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My geese do not live on a pond. They swim in a small swimming pool -- really funny! My neighbors across the street have a pond that usually has a few wild geese on it. Last year we saw baby geese out there. I have never caught my geese across the street, but I have wondered about where...

Okay. Here is the question: Can I tell if a goose egg is fertile the same way I tell chickens and turkeys? Here is my story: I have had a pair of white Chinese swan geese since last spring. They were about a week old when we got them. As they developed, one seemed obviously female and...

This is our first experience with geese. I do have a gander that is the same age. I have NOT seen any mating, so we were really shocked to see her making a nest. I also have turkeys that hatched in February, and we just found one of them brooding on a nest of 16 eggs! We knew the turkey was...

I have a pair of white Chinese geese that are between 5 and 6 months old. I was shocked to discover that my goose is laying eggs; she has a nest with 4 eggs in it currently. I thought they only laid in the spring. Is this unusual for geese? I assume they are not fertile. She won't try to...

How old were they in this last shot?

Here they are taking a bath. I had no idea how personable geese were! My girls love them already, and the goslings follow them around very well when we take them outside.

Well, the babies have arrived! After seeing how huge they already are, there is no way my silkie could handle them. They are already about half her size. Thanks for the advice. The babies are really cute and will already follow us around.

Apparently, I am about to be the proud owner of 2 baby geese. (like, within the next hour or two they will be arriving!) Now, I have chickens and turkeys and have been raising them for several years. My chickens and turkeys go broody quite frequently, and I even have a brooder still set up...

Hey! I have been homeschooling my girls for quite a few years now. They are 13 and 11. They love being home and having time to work with the goats and chickens and turkeys! I actually taught math at a public high school before I had kids. I had a difficult time finding a program that I...

I have been homeschooling my girls for quite a few years now. We love it! A really great place to start looking at materials is rainbowresource.com. They carry a huge variety of materials from many different publishers along with detailed reviews of a lot of the items. Also, this time of...

I will be looking for some Plymouth barred rock eggs this spring to put under a broody. Anybody here in Illinois? We are about half way between St. Louis, MO and Springfield, IL.

Hi! I am looking for some barred rock eggs. We are along I-55 about half way between St. Louis and Springfield, IL. Anybody close by have some ? I don't need them yet. I want to put them under a broody, so I would have to wait until that happens (which it does frequently around here!).

I have a couple of Narragansett hens that are laying right now. They have not started to sit yet, but I am sure they will. I might be willing to sell you a few, depending on how the hatching goes.

Hey! I am looking for some large fowl blue cochins. I would take eggs or chicks. My daughter had a blue cochin hen that she raised for 4-H and just loved, but it died last week. I would love to be able to get her a few chicks so she can try again. We are about halfway between St. Louis...

Ruthymoore, I have tried to PM you but keep getting an error message. If you could PM your email address, I could email you back that way. We do have 3 icelandic sheep. When we bought them, we were told they had been bred and were pregnant; unfortunately, we were lied to and never had any...

We are about half way between St. Louis and Springfield along I-55. (Sorry if I don't respond very quickly. I don't check here too often because my computer is so slow.)

I am down sizing my flock for the winter. We plan to butcher most of the extras, but I thought I would check first to see if anyone is interested in buying some of this years pullets. They are all mixed breeds from good laying stock. I also have a couple roosters from Cackle Hatchery that my...

I looked at the soles of her feet. They look really light green to me -- almost white. Are there any other breeds that have green legs besides easter eggers and sicilian buttercups? To me, she really looks a lot different than the all the partridge rocks -- we noticed it right away when...

Thanks for your input so far. I may try to take a picture of her next to one of the partridge rocks. Her coloring is completely different when you see her in real life. She almost looks like the pictures of sicilian buttercups we've seen but a little darker, and, of course, she doesn't have...

We received this pullet in an order from Cackle Hatchery. We ordered 5 partridge rocks -- we got 4 and this bird. She is really beautiful and we would love to know her breed. Notice the green legs. She has a straight comb. She is just a bit bigger than the partridge rocks of the same age...