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    Post PICS of your GLORIOUS ROOSTERS here!!! All breeds welcome!

    another one of my boys - He's a buff orpington x gold indian brahma florence (I thought he was a hen initially!)
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    Post PICS of your GLORIOUS ROOSTERS here!!! All breeds welcome!

    He's a gold brahma x white leghorn. Sorry to be stupid but whats breed does WL/EE stand for, i'm not used to the abrieviations!
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    Post PICS of your GLORIOUS ROOSTERS here!!! All breeds welcome!

    Quote: Your white and gold cockerel is almost identical to my woody!
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    How do you tell a goose from a gander?

    another VERY obvious way is sometimes the ganders "boys parts" hang out the back (it looks like a corkscrew - as in ducks). . Thats how I confirmed my Boycie was definatly a boy!!! The boys are usually bigger/chunkier with thicker necks. As for temperament - my goose is more aggressive with...
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    Some pictures of my geese (Pic Heavy)

    perhaps a roman tufted x american buff? I almost hatched one out! They are lovely!
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    so..what breed?

    My two are embdens. They are noisy (especially when they see someone), can be aggressive (they were hand reared), have attacked my german shepherd who is now terrified of them! If I stand by the back door eating, I generally get mugged for it, they bang the back door with their beaks when they...
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    White Danish Geese (aka-Legarth Geese)

    Yes thats right goosedragon. Even though they may be ready to eat at michelmass, generally a goose is ordered for yule. At one time the turkey was always eaten but now I think the goose is gaining ground too here because of the way they are naturally raised free range/open pasture etc. Many...
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    My Sebs

    Quote: Thankyou smileysal.. I will take a look. I travelled to shrophire to get my gossies from cyril bason in craven arms. Don't know if know them. They were only £7.50 each! Chinese geese are lovely (well I love all geese) - very elegant.
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    My Sebs

    I love these, I'd like to get some hatching eggs but they are very hard to get in England.
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    White Danish Geese (aka-Legarth Geese)

    Yes, my goslings are bred purely for the commercial meat/egg sector only. They do put on weight & grow at an astonishing rate. I feel I can almost see my goslings growing! I don't think they are a special/pedigree breed as such. They are similar to embdens. if you buy them in april/may as...
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    rehoming our geese- sad to say...great new home found today!

    I've got say give the geese a very large wire pen to roam in. I most certainly wouldn't give up my animals without a fight for ANY neighbour!! That wouldn't cost an awful lot to put up. Obviously don't let them roam on their land etc to give them cause to moan & if they don't like the noise of...
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    White Danish Geese (aka-Legarth Geese)

    My two babies are legarth geese (Norfolk geese). They originally came from denmark. They are very similar to embdens - A large goose where as romans are smaller.. I don't know if they will send fertile eggs out to you.. http://www.norfolkgeese.co.uk/index.html There is also a supplier in...
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    Woke up this morning.. All goslings dead..

    They got too hot. If they had watery stuff on their backs they were sweating. Use a red heat bulb that is used in a vivarium to keep your new babes warm. 50w is fine. A nice gentle heat. Gradulally raise it over the following two - three weeks untill they're off it all together. Feed them...
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    Anyone hatching 20th or 21st? Hatch with me!!!

    I've got one pip so far. 1 other is moving about. only got 4 eggs now out of 7. I found one dead this morning after a disasterous check on my behalf last night (i thought it was a dud egg & it wasn't). poor little chicky.
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    is there a way to know that a chicken is going to lay

    if your chooks are squatting they are accepting you as the cockerel so the eggs should be due soon. but just squatting is a submissive gesture aswell. sometimes they lay a few soft shelled eggs , shell less eggs or just plain strange eggs untill they get into it. thats another sign. i put false...
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