I have a buff op. chicken that I couldn't keep off the nest so I put 6 duck eggs under her (about a month ago) and she has hatch 4 of them so far. I felt bad for her because she wanted some babies so bad. She is caring for them really good to.
I found 2 goose eggs wednesday (one was broke) and then friday I found another one. So I put some straw in the large dog house that my other goose used to hatch her babies in and put the 2 eggs in there. This morning I noticed her going in and out of the house and banging around while she was in...
My goose started setting on the 28th of March and this morning when I checked on her she had 1 baby. I took my cane and lifted her up and their was the cutiest little gosling looking back at me. I just got back from feeding and watering for the night and I checked her again and she has 8. I...
My toulouse goose Bella started setting today. She looks like she is in a daze. She is just setting there with a glazed look on her face. Friday is the last day that I counted her eggs and there was 17 in the nest. She has broke 1 and I took the first 2 out. I'm sure she laid some more since...
I'm just thrilled, I got my first goose egg yesterday. I didn't check yesterday but my goose kept going back to the area I found the egg in today so I figured she was keeping and eye on her egg. Well today there was another egg about 2 feet from the first egg. I have 2 toulouse hens and I don't...
I see where there is toulouse geese and french toulouse geese. They look identical to me so other than a price difference of around 20 cents what is the difference? Just curious.
I had a couple call me and wanted some duck eggs to hatch. I sold them for $1.00 each. Is that to much or not enough? I sell the eating eggs for $2.00 a dz. and sometimes give them away. Some people think its gross to eat duck eggs. Anyway the couple that bought the hatching eggs wanted to buy a...
Mikey my pilgrim gander is 10 months old and has started trying to mate with my 7 months old toulouse goose. I caught them last week in the pool and again yesterday. They were so funny. I'm not sure they even have the hang of it yet. I have always penned them together (my pilgrim gander and...
I have 3 toulouse geese and they have decided that they want to fly. They are 18 weeks old. It started about a month ago as fun when they would run and fly a couple of feet off the ground. Now though one of them has decided he/she wants to fly higher and father and will fly over my 6ft fence...
About 3 weeks ago around 11:30 we heard a loud noise in our chicken house (we were watching a movie). We let the ducks, chickens and geese all run and sleep together. WE put our shoes on and my husband grabs his gun and flashlight and we ran out there. There was a hugh owl in their house and the...
I was getting 15 duck eggs a day until 3 days ago when they slowed down to 5-6 a day. My husband had been collecting the eggs for me. I ask him if he was checking the nest good and he swore he was. When I went out to let them all out of their house I deceided to gather the eggs myself. There was...
I have a pilgrim gander thats 6 1/2 months old and a trio of toulouse that are 3 1/2 months old. They get along fine. I also have 3 white runner ducks. I have noticed that for the past couple weeks the pilgrim gander has paired up with one of the runner ducks. Thay look so funny together but so...
For about a week now I have been getting this huge green duck egg. It's almost as big as my pekins egg. Can a runner lay this big of an egg. My runner eggs are around the size of a medium chicken egg. Also do runners lay white eggs too.
These are the eggs I got today and I don't know if the white eggs are from my harlequins or swedes. The large one is from my pekin, the four green ones on the bottom are from the runners. Notice the tiny white one at the bottom must be a first egg but from the welsh or harlequin? Now the 2 green...