Recent content by Kim65

If you can, make sure you get female geese, they are much less likely to get aggressive and bitey. They are more likely to run and hide. Just get a couple of them, and you and your children spend a lot of time with them. Allow them the fall asleep on you, be held and petted (they really enjoy...

A single or even just two geese will imprint on you enough that they probably will not get aggressive and see you as their parent their whole lives. If you have a larger flock who imprint more on each other, yet you have lots of contact with them, that's when trouble can start (at least in my...

You know, I think that just SUCKS. I had a neighbor like that until I moved to my current place a year ago. I don't know what crawled up his butt and died, but he was determined to loathe me and my critters. The side of the street I lived on was unincorporated XXXX county, and the other side...

Geese are very special. They don't "forget" you when they are mature, you will always be their parent. They seem to have very developed relationship skills for such simple critters, especially if you hand raise them from hatch. Many people have them as pets because they are as devoted to you...

Another YES vote for Brinsea, I have an ECO 20 and it's very easy to use, temp stays steady and for a beginner incubator hatcher like me, the price was worth it. I have three ducklings warming up in my hair as I write, all hatched in the brinsea. I would definitely buy another, and spend a...

Good grief, one just hatched!! It was from one of the small light greenish eggs, maybe a mallard? I got the variety pack from Efowl. Anyway, perfectly absorbed eggyolk and cord, spunky little peeper

Sorry, the duckling with active blood vessels was NOT part of this hatch, but from an abandoned nest. He is a two months old now. So it sounds like my kids are on for a day 27 hatch then They have been on lockdown with the humidity up in range since last night. Thanks Pete, I feel so much...

This is my first incubated from day 1 (which was midnight 9/2) in my new brinsea eco 20 duckling hatch! It's done well with my mutt chicks, and even with a rescued unhatched duckling without a known due date. The temps and humidity have been very steady. So I get home from work tonight, take...

My gander Petey almost ate a plastic grocery bag. The only reason it didn't go down the whole way is because he swallowed it from the top down and the air trapped in the bag made a big "balloon", which was an interesting thing to see coming out of a goose's mouth . I try to keep the yard...

Ahhh, the air sac is "fixed", does not move around, just appears to have detached from the inner surface of the egg. If I turn the egg, the irregular/detached part stays where it is. No bubble of air moving around. In fact, I have seen that happen with a previous duck egg soon after the...

On 9/2 I put sixteen duck eggs from Efowl.com in my Brinsea eco-20. I've been hatching mutt chicks from the backyard flock all summer and got the candling thing down pretty good, but I haven't seen this yet. The air sacs are at the correct end of the egg, but they are not round, they are...

Oh LOL, I forgot what time of year it was My very fat nonflying geese have been making a horrid racket a couple of times a day lately, causing me to run outside and see what is killing them. Nope, they are flapping their wings and running across the yard (and stopping short at the garden...

Get him a friend He will be much happier with another goose or two. He is human imprinted, but is young enough he should bond with another goose or two. He would have company all day when you are gone.

I'd put money on him being a Toulouse for sure LOVE the pic of him in his "car seat" . I chuckle (after all these years) every time I see a duck or goose in the one-leg-behind-itself pose

Geese are very resistant to almost everything. They do not need vaccinations and I've never wormed mine. I rescued a very bedraggled, malnourished goose last year, took her to the vet and had them do a fecal for parasites. I expected she'd be full of them. Nope, not one. They can and do get...