Help with breed/gender identification -- And what mess have I gotten myself into!?!

IronEagle said:

My husband and I both work online, so we can live anywhere. That's how we ended up in Mexico. It's a wonderful place to live and all of the necessities (housing, food, utilities, health care) are much more affordable (outside of the tourist destinations). We live off the grid here (although we do have internet) in a tiny village that is also a protected national park. It's a really nice life. We actually considered North Carolina prior to moving here since my husband has roots there, but just could not make the numbers work. But we go once a year to visit family and really enjoy it.

That's a good idea, to just fence them in if needed. Right now I have some Rouen ducklings in a pen made from roll-up plastic fencing so I could use that to fence in one of the ponds if I need to.

One thing I wanted to ask you, have you ever seen one of your ganders making a nest? Our original goose, Gansy, did this thing last year that made us think he was building a nest to lay an egg in (hence, we thought Gansy was a she) He'd take leaves, little sticks and anything he could find and then put it in a circle around himself and then lay on it. My husband got a kick out of handing him items and he'd add it to the stack. Sometimes he's put it on his own feet and then sit down on it. But after all of that he never laid an egg! Is that something ganders do?

Thanks again!
IE

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ducky 13 said:

Yup I'm guessing you have 3 ganders and 1 goose. If you don't want fighting I would seperate the pair from the other ganders

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jchny2000 said:

My Embden gander has done the nest building before, he is quite particular where she chooses to lay. I swear they have arguments about it. His dominant hen is a bossy thing, lol. She lets out the squeal and boy does he come running! Usually she announces that she is done laying, or is off her nest. He courts the other hens when this one sits, but all she has to do is 1 shriek and he blazes a trail straight to her. He grew up with the 3 hens.

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