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Hello all, Haven't been on for a while, as I've been in Canada for the summer. I got home two days ago, and the next day, out popped a gosling from under my goose! My mom and I were shocked, and separated out the mother, father, and gosling from the rest of the flock. The next day, the gosling...

Hello guys! We will be testing out selling our cotton patch goose eggs. As you may know, cotton patch geese are extremely rare heritage geese that originated in America's deep south to weed cotton patch fields. We have both the saddleback and solid varieties together, meaning you will probably...

Hello all! Just wanted to share some news - it seems that Puddle Foot Farm, in cooperation with Button Farm, will be taking in some of Tom Walker's top Cotton Patch goose breeding pairs after this next breeding season (May 2011). My mother is the new livestock manager for the Button Farm, which...

Hey everyone! I haven't been around lately because I'm at college, but my mom called the other day and said that my darling pekins were LAYING EGGS! That got me to thinking.. How are the rest of them doing? I do know that 10 of them we gave to a local boy are doing GREAT. He took them to the...

Hello fellow duck lovers! Just thought I'd share some pics of my darling pekin, Princess Puddles, who is one of the 53 that I rescued. Since the beginning, she stood out to me. She's super friendly, despite being malnourished and abandoned. I love her! Anyways, my mom and I own an organic store...

I have two ducklings who were supposed to be going in with my broody goose. That didn't happen, but they did break my broody. Now, I have them brooding next to my chicks that came with them. There is a khaki campbell who has a small crest and a fully crested fawn and white runner. Last night, I...

Long story short, my goose has been broody for over a month and I've gotten worried about her. She isn't sitting on eggs but don't tell her that, because she'll deny it vehemently and continue guarding her nest. So, since I'm getting an order of chickens this week from Ideal, I decided to add on...

We recently saved 40 pekin ducks from the side of the road. We know that they were dumped (and talked to the person who did it). Now we need to rehome them! All we ask for is a small donation to feed, as they have already eaten 10-15 pounds of it and will go through much more tomorrow. Please PM...

Thank you for being a cruel jerk. Your ducks are now in my chicken coop after I drove them home in my car. At least 6 good samaritans stopped to help us get them into the car. They loathe you as well. Anyways, here's a story, for you all! As you can probably gather, I just brought home 40 pekin...

Hello everyone! I am nearing the end of my first goose incubation which is also my first hatch in my Brinsea 20 Eco that I got for my birthday. Here are the stats: Today is Day 26. Out of 14 toulouse gander/chinese geese eggs set (none of my the parents are even a year old, btw), 1 was...

Hey guys.. I'm completely sick over the stupid mistake I made. I usually let my eggs cool around 2, while I'm making lunch. In the middle of my lunch, I stop and put them back in. Today however, I was working outside and then went to ride my horse during lunch, so I had to cool my eggs later...

Hey everyone, I took my four two week old ducklings out for their second swim today. It was a bit cold, so I put them in for about two minutes before taking them out. They don't really like swimming much anyways. SO, as soon as we took the last one out, it started seizing. Wings out, feet out...

Hi all, I don't really know if it's even possible, but it look like one of my cotton patch has a sprained hip. He is eating/drinking, but will not walk much. He's sitting next to the water and walks a couple steps to get food, then comes back to lay down again. I took him out to see what was...

Hi! My mom finally caved in and let me add ducks to my waterflock. Before today, I had numerous chickens, 5 fully grown geese, and 10 goslings. This morning, I added 2 saddleback pomeranian goslings and 5 ducklings! (and 6 male chicks "for warmth".. ) I got 1 (possibly crested) cayuga male, 2...

Okay y'all! I'm going to set 15 goose eggs sometime this week, and right now I'm storing them in my brinsea 20 eco. I've never incubated in this before, but I got it just because you don't have to open it to turn it. So, just wondering, how do you actually turn it? I know you pivot it back and...

Hi guys! This is my first post to the duck forum, and I am very proud to say that I am getting my first ducklings this week from Ideal! I am getting 1 cayuga male, 2 cayuga pullets, and 2 crested blue swedish pullets along with my 2 saddleback pomeranian geese. I have taken care of a plethora...

I got an email from Tom Walker last night.. My 10 cotton patch goslings are coming! They were supposed to ship last week, but he had hopes of adding saddlebacks to our order (our desired "flavor", if you will), so we waited a week. Unfortunately, only one pair of saddlebacks hatched. So, in the...

Dunno if this has been post before, but I was googling 2 week old gosling and this lovely article came up. Thought it might interest my fellow goose lovers! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5782747/Goose-gets-a-bionic-leg-in-world-first-operation.html I didn't find any...

Came home from college, and my goose laid her first egg. Perfect timing for my first breakfast home! (At school, we don't have real eggs for breakfast. they come from a carton. ) Now, we definitely have 2/5 laying (got another egg this morning). We know that Luna (Luno??), our toulouse, is a...

Hey guys! I'm planning on getting 10 cotton patch goslings this spring, and would like to start plans for a brooder for them as soon as possible, so it actually gets done! I'm tired of cardboard box brooders, and as we're finally taking the plunge into actually breeding geese, I decided we...