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So, thank you to everyone who responded with ideas. I think I have an answer to what was happening, or at least an close idea. It was probably not a predator issue at all but a humidity issue. In the time since loosing the first clutch, we have had record breaking rainfall in our area, more...

Cool. I didn't know that, but it does explain some things. I envy you your volunteer tomatoes. The only ones that have ever survived to seed for me was some Matt's Wild Cherry, which came up in my flower garden the last two years. 😑 Have lots of Bok Choi coming up though! 😁

We are trying out more companion planting this year as well, and have had some sucess in the past. Strawberries and Asparagus do well together, and since their root systems are at different depths, they don't compete. It's pretty easy to separate when thinning asparagus too. My mom used to run...

It's interesting. Pretty much all squash will cross, including the winter varieties and most pumpkins, but you won't know how till the next season of you save seeds. Did that year before last, and had a bunch of weird c. Pepos last year from it. Some were incredibly tasty, like one that was...

Well, we haven't gotten a game cam, but did have a plot twist. The last of the first clutch was destroyed and we have gotten all but one piece for our incubator, so we started collecting the new eggs for incubation. In the process of that, we went through some of the nesting materials for the...

GCrumb is right. I have had ganders leave me with bruses about as big as a soccer ball. The damage they could do to a kid is substantial. Education and shelter for the geese are probably your best options. I have a flock of about 20 geese, and my kids and my brother's kids are always back in...

I didn't know the goose is supposed to do that. We have hatched out a number of times successfully and ours never seemed to. They just left the shells for the chickens. Our broodies do seem to be a bit lacking in the natural instinct department though! Even had one mama goose up and abandon her...

These are broken completely, but no residue inside. It is like the eggs hatched successfully, but some of them were definitely too early to do that.

Yeah, I was just talking about that with my folks. We don't have any cams right now but it might be a good investment. I was thinking that a snake would swallow them whole, but was wondering if it depended on the size of snake. My folks just mentioned they had smelled a skunk a couple times, so...

Do you have any good ways to check to see if it is a snake? I would trust my dog to know, but the dogs my folks have now haven't been trained by me personally. I am really getting frustrated with the situation.

I thought of that, but haven't seen any signs. Our birds usually eat or kill them. The only snake I have seen them back away from was a bull snake about ten years ago that was as long as my car. We haven't seen any sign of that snake or relatives of it since, and he was heading off the property...

Hello. I share a flock of Embdens with my folks, with almost 20 some geese right now. At least six of the geese started building clutches this spring. It is not the first year--we had about the same number try to set last year, but had something raiding the nests at night taking almost hatched...