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Thank you. She has laid eggs before, but never sat on them the entire time. She does not seem to be upset, but Leonard and Curley for some reason reason, are very upset and are not happy with me for destroying her nest. Good news, her daughter is sitting on 4 eggs that should be due soon. I...

Sad day for us. I went to look in on Tilly and saw egg yolk on her face and body. And it smelled horrible. I was able to get her up and took all her eggs out and cleaned out the broken egg. She did not seem to be concerned, maybe she realized that they were all bad. Which they were. I...

Thanks! I would bet they will be piping tonight. I hope so. I agree, I love goslings much more than chicks, not that I do not love chicks. But they are so entertaining and loving. I prefer that at least goslings hatch, but if only one hatches in the incubator then we get to spend lots of...

BTY, Leonard is a Pilgrim and Curley is a Sebastopol. They were all raised together.

I am really surprised as well. She lets my husband near her as well. But she does not tolerate the other geese, even sometimes her mate, when they came near her nest. Soon after she started regularly sitting on her nest, she would not let her mate, Leonard, stay in the coop with her at night...

Tilly, an Embden goose, has been sitting on her eggs for about 5 weeks. I took them all out when she was off the nest and candled them briefly. There is a air pocket on the large end of the each egg, and a cohesive dark area above which takes up about 2/3 of the egg shell. That seemed a big...