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Hope your hay season is fruitful in both your areas!

I just checked the goose calculator, and a buff gander over a grey goose will give you buff geese and grey ganders, which would be pretty cool if that's right. Grey gander over buff goose = all grey.

Speaking of horses, it's past time to go feed our horses their morning grain and check on our feathered kids. Off to do my chores.

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Originally Posted by Iain Utah 

Congrats!!!  How many eggs total did you buy? Don't know color genetics, but she runs flocks of 20-30 birds for each color separately and makes a point to ship eggs from different geese, so each set of eggs are unrelated.  I have bought 3 sets from her now.  I have only had a few with loose air cells and of those only one has gone super wonky on me.  Will be curious to see if it hatches ok in 11-12 days.

Have the loose air cell ones developed, and or hatched?  Other than the really wonky one?  She had 2 auctions...one for 2 grays, and one for 2 buffs.  So I guess a total of 4 because I'm not expecting her to send extras.  She offers a very reasonable price on them, I was suprised.  I was wondering about the crossing of the two in case I end up with a pair made up of a buff and a gray.  Crap...may have to get another set of each...argh! 

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Originally Posted by JulieNKC 

I just checked the goose calculator, and a buff gander over a grey goose will give you buff geese and grey ganders, which would be pretty cool if that's right. Grey gander over buff goose = all grey.

That is interesting!

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Originally Posted by DutchChic 

 

 

Have the loose air cell ones developed, and or hatched?  Other than the really wonky one?  She had 2 auctions...one for 2 grays, and one for 2 buffs.  So I guess a total of 4 because I'm not expecting her to send extras.  She offers a very reasonable price on them, I was suprised.  I was wondering about the crossing of the two in case I end up with a pair made up of a buff and a gray.  Crap...may have to get another set of each...argh

They do develop if set upright.  I have a 50/50 hatch rate for them.

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Originally Posted by JulieNKC 

I just checked the goose calculator, and a buff gander over a grey goose will give you buff geese and grey ganders, which would be pretty cool if that's right. Grey gander over buff goose = all grey.

Now that is very good information...makes me feel better about getting at least a pair from the 4 eggs.  I'm thinking I want the buff gander and the grey goose....sex link Dewlaps would be very cool!   Oh my....got to figure out to fit them into my incubator! 

Oh...in the past I have done geese in a still air bator....is a forced air Genesis alright, then move to still air for hatch?

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Originally Posted by Iain Utah 

 

 

They do develop if set upright.  I have a 50/50 hatch rate for them.

Ok..that sounds promising.  I just hope out of the four I get a pair.  I set 28 Silkie eggs with loose air cells in varying degrees....couldn't just throw them out so maybe I'll get a few chicks. 

Dutch, I think you have a very good chance of hatching a pair from her eggs, but if all else fails, she also ships gosling pairs a surprisingly low price.

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Originally Posted by Iain Utah 

Dutch, I think you have a very good chance of hatching a pair from her eggs, but if all else fails, she also ships gosling pairs a surprisingly low price.

Dang...maybe I shoulda gone that way, lol.