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    Never in 43 years!!! Amazed!!!

    For more fun there is a Canada goose sitting on eggs in an abandoned Bald eagle nest in Decorah Iowa...
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    Why don't my chickens go broody???

    Too true!
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    Goose fertility

    My girl is a pied Cotton Patch goose the last of a small flock I had to re-home. I kept her because I was not sure how healthy she was, being the runt and the only pied gosling. But she has become a beautiful girl. I was tickled when 2 Canadas started hanging around our yard this summer and I...
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    Non-mated goose laying eggs

    So sorry! What a special mama. Thanks so much for relating your experience and confirming my ideas. I guess they have their own ideas about when or when not to go broody. Unlike my silkies who go broody on one egg.
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    Non-mated goose laying eggs

    OK, thanks.
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    Non-mated goose laying eggs

    Thanks. Do you let her go through the whole setting time? Or do you take up the "eggs" after a few days to break her broodiness? (Ha! Magpies got what they deserved.)
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    Non-mated goose laying eggs

    Thanks.
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    Non-mated goose laying eggs

    Thanks - everyone - for all the good advice. Yes, my husband is very pleased to have goose and duck eggs for egg salad. I've got a line on some Pilgrim goslings but will have to wait until our kitchen remodeling project is finished since I will be crazed for 10 days. >:O
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    Non-mated goose laying eggs

    That's what I'm wondering. Is it better for her to think her eggs have been stolen and finally quit laying or let her go through the whole hormonal cycle with no babies at the end? Had a dog that went through a false pregnancy once and it was stressful.
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    Non-mated goose laying eggs

    Thanks. I'm just worried that she'll get run down from producing the eggs. Should I give her extra feed? I have a line on someone near me who will have goslings in a couple of weeks. I should be able to get her some friends - and a mate - then.
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    Non-mated goose laying eggs

    My goose - who has no mate - has been laying eggs for a couple weeks now. We discovered she had laid 5 so I put her up with the eggs to see if she would go broody. She didn't and didn't like being confined. So we let her loose again and are taking up the eggs every day as we find them. Is it...
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    Goose fertility

    Thanks. We'll find out. Just have to wait.
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    Goose fertility

    Do geese harbor sperm for a period of time? My goose had a wild Canada mate for a few months this fall and winter. We found him dead a couple of weeks ago. Now my goose has laid 6 eggs. What are the odds that any of these eggs are fertile? I'm willing to let her sit on them so she goes...
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    ISO 1-3 geese Charleston SC

    Looking for 1-3 geese for 5-acres with pond. I now have one pied Cotton Patch goose that needs friends. Near Charleston SC.
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    New Geese

    Thanks. BYC is so vast it confuses me. :)
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