2013 Sebastopol Breeding/Gosling Thread

[kimberly35042]

How sweet! Is the pinkish / brown a buff??

 

[pips&peeps]

looks like a pair!

 

[RURU]

Aweeee they gosling love dah momma!

 

[ChristineR]

How sweet! Is the pinkish / brown a buff??

I don't think so. They should be white. Jean-do you have any buff in your flock's genetics? That would be the only way possible.

looks like a pair!

They are. I had someone sex them for me, but they're siblings.

 

[pips&peeps]

I just had another Gary baby hatch. So two Gary and Mimi babies and two Adonis and Macy babies.

My Valentino eggs keep quitting.

 

[Goose and Fig]

I had a lot of last minute quitters. I just don't get it- they were shadowing and everything.

All my eggs are done for the season. I have a few babies from my birds, and then I ordered 5 more from another colored flock.

2 Bumble and Lilli babies:


Hugo's babies with Alice, and little lav Emma and Lucie baby. I cannot get the crust off her little head. She's so tiny.




Saddleback, saddleback, duck, blue, duck, blue saddleback, lav dad in background.


This little call was the only one to hatch from shipped eggs. He looks so silly walking around with the runner babies.

 

[RURU]

Pips and Peeps and Goose and Fig. I have a question? Are you running your incubators dry. I have learned something from running my incubators totally dry. I am getting better hatches and the moisture is coming off the eggs to not drowned the goslings at the last minute or cause a heart attack while trying to pip. After the gosling pips I take it and put it into a plastic container with a fresh washed wash cloth. Put the egg on the wash cloth and take plastic wrap and put it on top and poke some holes in the to not too big but just enough. To make it's own humidity and am have some great luck hatching hard to hatch eggs!
Opps forgot to say wet the wash cloth with warm water wring it out then put it in the plastic container.

 

[Goose and Fig]

I was running the bators dry. 3 different ones, same results. Every time something would hatch, but not all that developed.

My lav goose laid really small super-calcified eggs, so I was lucky to get two babies out. And we had fertility issues as well. And crazy weather.

 

[RURU]

I know Goose and Fig that the weather has been so weird this year again. So Emma is having trouble with egg quality? I wonder why?? Now this is the lavender curly breasted that I got from woolfarm right? I raised her on waterfowl grower for the first 3 weeks and then transferred her to a maintance waterfowl feed until I sent her to Christina.... Maybe she will do better next Spring for you. She will mature more and maybe do better with her eggs....

I know my Gloria had trouble with her egg quality right after I got her from Dave H. I got nothing from her the first breeding season. Her eggs were either soft shelled ordid not get fertile. So the next year had some of the same issues with her. Then I had Gloria in with my Sammie (white curly gander) instead, because Grant (solid grey) I bought with her dumped Gloria off for Sammies mate, Samantha (white curly). Was still having issues with Gloria's egg shells and not getting fertile.
But that year Gloria got hit in the right leg with pellets from Ron shot gun he was shooting a raccoon trying to get out geese. In the mean time pellets bounced off the ground into Gloria's right leg and shattered it. So off Gloria went to a Avary Specialist to get her leg fixed. He did a great job on Gloria and $1,000.00 later she was fine. But she did go onto Baytril for awhile and must have cleared something up in her system.
Because this year we have Gloria in with Lance and we have 2 beautiful grey saddleback goslings from her. Our very first goslings from my dear Gloria!!!! Her egg consistency is great.. I have waited almost 4 years to get goslings out of Gloria.

 

[Goose and Fig]

Yeah- that's Emma. She had these small, narrow, super thick shelled eggs. Chalky. I think its because she is a little small size-wise, and it being her first year. The babies are tiny. But I am happy- got something from everybody but my Claire. Next year will be better, with a bigger flock and more chances for babies.

We're going to start working on a new incubator. We found a 1949 International Harvester refrigerator that's in ridiculously good shape. Going to get it all cleaned up and painted (barn red probably) and get it converted before next season. (I hope!)




Congrats on the Gloria babies, Ruru!