I have few Goose eggs in Incubator - they are 17-th day today.
Two looks Normal/good, but one has abnormal air Sack!
Please see pictures & advice me before I toss this egg out!
Just yesterday about 11am I hear rucus on a porch & several of my chickens forcing kitchen window glass, like trying to get into the kitchen....Unusual behavior....I went outside & see mighty Big Red Fox a front of my stairs. I scream at him, wave hands & he is just looking at me! What kind of...
Thank you Ms. Lydia!
I would never let any of my Birds to sit on non-fertile eggs.
The moment I see chicken sitting, I run to near by Farmer & bring good fertile eggs. For goosie I would do the same...Nonetheless, I already put an Ad that I'm looking for male Sebastopol. My Plan "B" was to bring...
Female Geese with out Male/Gander - Would they nest?
For example like chickens nesting often, even if there is no Rooster & no fertile eggs...
Please advice. Thank you!
Thanks! They are totaly loose now, walking/following me through the house.
They dispise any enclosure. I guess they will always stay free.
Couple times during a day, we go outside; I'm working on a yard and they foraging around near me. They understand my calling them & learned to go up the...
A friend of my son gave him 4 Goose eggs that he find in a field.
We live in a country with many lakes, fields, woods....
I was a bit hesistant, because never before incubated goose eggs.
Well, I read everything online and put them in a old foam incubator that I have already 30 years!
Watched...
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with me!
He is kind of heavy...I was able to pick him up in my hands, the first night, when he went to sleep on garbage can near the coop (and I put him into the coop).
Next night, he went inside him self.
That makes me very sad :-( When I called Italian, he said that he was keeping 2 Roo's in that coop & they were fighting...so he put one to live outside. I'm guessing the one from "outside" came to me. I feel so sorry for this Roo now! I am definitely keeping him! And Thank you for replying!
Oh...poor Roo! I didn't know that this is frost bite! :-(
I was kind of wondering that his comb is strange looking....
Damn...Italian was keeping them whole winter in small coop alone...
and visiting only (maybe) once a week to feed them.....
One morning I noticed crowing and gigantic orange Rooster on my property.
I Figured out that he crossed the street from Italian house to my house.
(I knew that Italian is the only neighbor who have Roosters)
Called Italian...he said, keep it if you want!
Yes, I am prone to keep it, because Roo...