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HEADS UP AVIAN INFLUENZA ALERT
I am due to have 11 juvenile pullets delivered June 9th from McMurry Hatchery. Their website claims that they have no problems with the virus. Yet there was a heavy outbreak in Wright County immediately north of Hamilton County where they are located. I have a handful of geese I keep as pets...- markt1
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- Forum: Emergencies / Diseases / Injuries and Cures
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Heated water for geese in winter...your ideas?
Buy a 9 gallon galvanized tank with handles and a submersible tank heater from Tractor Supply. Cut off the plugs from the tank heater and one end of the extension cord. Buy long springs from a hardware store like Home Depot and use them to cover the tank heater cord and the part of the extension... -
Geese, Chickens, and Parasites
We have a pair of Embden geese that have laid 42 eggs over two seasons with only a single egg being fertile and hatching. So we have given up on geese reproduction and are now only keeping the geese as pets. We want to raise about a dozen chickens for both the eggs and their offspring's' meat... -
Can Geese Get Parasites From Chickens?
They are Embden geese. Three are 27 months old, the other five are 15 months old. I've been incubating the eggs since we still have bouts of weather below freezing (it snowed 1/2" last night) and none of the nest are being sat upon. -
Can Geese Get Parasites From Chickens?
My attempts to raise geese from eggs laid here at home are not going well. Two dozen eggs last year and only one fertile (I had them xrayed at work to be sure). This year only five eggs so far this year. So I'm ready to give up on geese (keeping only four as pets) and try other livestock. But my... -
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Wheat For Home-Grown Feed
Can white wheat seeds be fed to geese without grinding them? The cheapest online source for white wheat berries (seeds) I've found was Walmart (at almost $1 per pound). Would rather go with oats due to their higher protein levels, but the rigging something up for kilning the oats (steaming... -
Clueless Gander
I have had a similar problem with my gander. Two females, 24 eggs, and only ONE fertile! I even took them into work after 30 days to look at them on the company XRAY machine. Nope, none fertile or even partially developed. A 4% success rate... So I got a bunch of hatchlings from Metzers which... -
Gander Reproductive Issues
I bought six adult geese from Holderreads and received them on February 21st . Holderreads did deworming and any necessary shots before I received them. I had three ganders and three females, all large and impressive. One of the ganders was aggressive and killed one of the other ganders even... -
Gander Reproductive Issues
Only one person on this entire forum willing to offer advice on my question? I have to make a decision soon on whether to butcher all of my young ganders and just order another adult from Holderreads, or to spare one and hope for the best. If nobody cares enough to offer an opinion, then there... -
When do geese lay eggs
How about ganders? At what age do they start to reliably fertilize eggs? -
Gander Reproductive Issues
I have three adult Embden geese (now 16 months old), one gander and two females from Holderreads. I got 24 eggs from these females by May (mostly from one bird), and only one hatched (incubator). All of the others were not fertile. I am 100% sure of this because after three weeks I took each of... -
What did you name your goose?
The goose with a zip tie banded to her right foot is "Rosie". The one with a band to her left foot is "Lucy". The unbanded gander is "Gus". -
Gosling Arrival Soon, Advice Requested
16 Embden goslings from Metzers due to arrive early next week and being a worrywart, I am concerned about the many details of starting them off right. Looking at Purina "Start and Grow" & "Flock Raiser" locally available. Which do I go with? Gonna add 7% brewers yeast by weight per Dave... -
Twelve Hour Egg Rotation Workable?
Much thanks for all of the excellent advice! Will continue with my 6AM/5PM/8:30PM rotation.