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Interesting gosling colourations!
Thought I’d share some pics of the mixed babies, they came from what I can only call a “pot luck” hatch - nest of mixed eggs and no clue who the fathers and mothers are 😅 Was surprised to see one of them has turned out super grey, they have some lovely gradient wing feathers that I wish I got a... -
Devastating bird flu culling
I’m uk based and live in a beautiful area where I was lucky to be able to watch and interact with many wild geese for years living here. I’ve watched many of them grow up from goslings - however just today I realise that there isn’t a wild goose in sight, I’ve come to find out that they have... -
UK West Yorkshire 2 free mini bantam roosters friendly
Situated in Huddersfield UK, as you can see they are pretty friendly and warm up to you fast if you spend time with them! Rehoming as we’re downsizing flock after our goose hatched some goslings - it’s been pretty easy to rehome chickens on Facebook but nobody wants to take cockerels 🥲 and I...- ElGoose
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UK based stores for waterfowl supplements?
Does anyone have any suggestions for uk based websites or stores that stock things like vitamins, supplements, feed and other essentials for geese? I just had a pretty bad experience with a store I won’t name incase it goes against rules, but to give some context I ordered 3 fairly expensive... -
It’s happening again :(
Last year I hatched 2 goslings, within 2 weeks they both developed issues with walking and passed away and almost seemed like they had never grown This year one of my girls has hatched 3 and just now one of them had a walking issue that was exactly like last year, I’m scared it’s going to be a... -
Tips on dealing with a particularly aggressive momma?
My girl, Hetty, who’s just hatched 3 goslings is definitely our LEAST trusting goose lol - I think I’d mentioned before that she came from a farm where she had practically no human contact, no water to bathe herself, no shed room etc and she absolutely HATES people no matter how comfortable... -
Cute/funny gosling update 💖
Didn’t think I’d be letting my girls go broody again, but when Hetty settled on her nest we figured it was too late to persuade her off 😅 we’ve ended up with 3 lovely looking and, so far, healthy goslings! Now the first issue is that Hetty is our most defensive goose, we got her from a farm... -
3 month old goslings still look quite small
I don’t know if I’m just crazy but I got these 2 domestic greylag goslings at the end of may and they still look quite small to me? Compared to how large other goslings are at this size. Besides the size they both are very healthy and swim/run a lot every day -
Lost unwanted racing pigeon
Found this lovely girl wandering around our house today, she was here all day and couldn’t fly much - she had contact info on her band but they do not want her so unsure on how to proceed.. the nearest pigeon rescue place has been denying new pigeons too as my friend had also found an unwanted...- ElGoose
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How to get rid of mink in the uk?
Last night the scariest thing happened, I came back home to the news that my geese were nowhere to be seen - they’d been let out and were not coming back.. I searched everywhere and saw a mink swimming up the river and my heart sunk This morning, thank goodness, all my geese returned safely and... -
Feather mites again :(
I thought I’d gotten the feather mite situation under control but it seems they’re back - the worst affected is Polly again as they seem to be around her face this time and I’m just wondering what I can do. I’ll be moving them into a larger and easier to clean shed today also. I tried to do the... -
Mallard duck with mixed male/female plumage!
Thought you guys might appreciate these pics, I heard male mallards will shed after the breeding season and look more like females, I managed to snap quite a few pics of this one as well as next to male and female ducks so you can really see the difference 😃 you can kind of see the gradual change -
Name suggestions for this pretty girl?
Picked up a girl yesterday as we’d been looking for an adult girl for a while for our gander hissy who’s lost 2 partners in the past (one was taken one was of old age) she’s a lovely buff girl who’s got a lovely temperament, here’s some pics of her on the first day calming down in my lap! I’m... -
Gosling eye looks sore?
This is one of the new goslings, they’ve had a few issues ever since they came such as being quite tired and sitting down a lot, but getting more active as now they’re eating a lot of grass and peas and lettuce alongside waterfowl feed… though when I look closer it looks like Walter has a sore... -
Is this an ok size for 2 and 1/2 week gosling?
So Zilla was cleared by the vet and hasn’t had any more leg issues so far but we were advised to get some worming treatment anyway just incase which will be here by Sunday at the latest - I’m mainly just slightly concerned as it feels like she’s not growing very fast and sadly I don’t have her... -
Getting 2 new goslings tomorrow - breed guess?
I ended up organising to have 2 more goslings since Zilla my current gosling sadly lost her brother recently 😢 I won’t be introducing them directly to the flock just yet but I’ll see how mum and dad geese react when they see them! I’ve just gotten a picture of the 2, I was told first that they... -
Gosling with very concerning symptoms URGENT
It was really hard to talk about it but one of the two goslings that Polly had hatched passed away shortly after my post asking about his leg issues, I assumed that it was a tendon problem and was going to try take a video, but found him in the shed later passed away 😢 I cried for ages and ages... -
Gosling not walking again :^( what do I do
This is the same gosling who couldn’t walk last time - I saw in the cameras that a magpie tried to get him and assumed he was in shock but it’s happened again today! Is it possibly a slipped tendon? I’ve seen that’s quite common in goslings apparently but I’m not sure how to treat it :^( -
Gosling can’t walk suddenly
Really worried as I came outside to check on the goslings only to see that one of them can’t walk. It seems to be one foot that it can’t fully stand on, I’ve checked it all over and I can’t see any injury and he doesn’t flail or act in pain when I touch or move any part of it and it all seems to... -
Gosling breed guess?
Both of the hatched goslings from Polly have this kind of black/dark marking on their beaks which neither Polly nor Sebastian (Sebastopol/embden) had when they we goslings, so I wonder if our steinbacher goose may be the dad? 😧 but I’m not sure what steinbacher goslings look like! Here is the...