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...
It's so hard to say what is wrong, or if anything IS wrong with a brand new hatchling.
Take the gosling out and put it in a brooder in the house, very warm and clean (to protect the navel). They are exhausted after fighting their way out of those eggs. Usually they do not need much food or...
Wear leather and cover your face and eyes
Take her eggs with you, candle them to see if there are any good ones, and make her a nest in your yard in a predator proof area. Just get a bunch of hay and plop it down against the side of a coop or shed. Put her eggs in it and confine her. She...
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Definitely protecting the ducks. Even ganders have strong nurturing instincts and will "Daddy" smaller creatures, even chicken chicks.
If their necks are straight up in the air that generally means curiosity and wariness. Geese are always wary, being close to the bottom of the food...
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My first pet goose was a Toulouse gander named Delilah. He was sexed as female by the hatchery (including the pink splotch on his head) so neither of us knew she was a he until some time after I lost her/him to the neighbor dogs She never laid an egg and shrieked like a gander and...
Most goose body language is in their neck and head.
Head and neck extended upward at an angle: Curiosity, wariness (about the same thing in a goose ), a wary kind of greeting. "Who are you and what do you want?" Often they'll come running toward you when they are doing this...