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My gander Harrold has started laying eggs a couple weeks ago, so I suppose he is not to be considered as a gander any more.

Thanks so much! Do you think that the gander will develop a fully grown knob? Are such hybrids fertile? Also the white one is a strong flier. He could take off without any running as he wanted to follow me around. The brown one couldn't and she stayed alone in their pen honking away until I...

My goslings are 4, 5 months old. The breeder said that they were male and female just visually sexing them according to their size difference. The white gosling was the biggest of the clutch and the brown one the smallest of all. Now the brown one is the same size if not bigger. Can anyone...

New picture showing the color change

I think I should take some new pics and show you.

My brown female african/chinese gosling gas started changing color on her feet and beak. It's getting paler, more orange-yellowish when it was solid black a couple weeks ago. Is that normal? Is it going to change again?

How can I be sure if my male african/chinese gosling is going to get buff or white color? The father was a dark brown and the mum a white with blue eyes. Is that how you get buff coloration? This is the gosling I'm talking about, he's already started growing his white feathers on his back. If...

Thank you! That's good to know, so I'll watch their protein intake for the feathering stage! ;)

Is size the only difference between fully grown African and Chinese geese? I guess goslings can't be told apart if they're african or chinese, can they?

Thank you flockman for the very helpful info! :) So, do ganders help in parenthood, raising and protecting the goslings? Also do goslings develop angel's wing?

I've got a few questions about the breed as recently we adopted a pair of 2 african goslings. 1. At which age will they go through their first molt? They're now about one month old. 2. At which age do they become sexually mature? Is it the same for the male and female? Is there a chance of...

Thanks miss Lydia, they really sweethearts and we love them! ;)

After a fox killed my 2 muscovy ducks a few months ago , we decided to adopt 2 african goslings. They were hatched in an incubator 3 weeks ago. The flock they were bred from has a brown male and 6 females, 5 brown and a white one with blue eyes. There is also a female common goose left there...

The ducklings are going to be 3 weeks old tomorrow! They are all excellent in health and growing normally, I think! They love to graze and I provide them with a lot of fresh green stuff twice daily. Their mama has been an excellent mum so far! Only one of them has an apparent...

That's also very useful and good info! Thanks so much! BYC rocks!

Thanks Miss Lydia, that was really useful! ;)

Separating them at night won't solve the problem. Separating them at day time would be a solution. I think that you should get more females definitely if you want to keep all 3 males.

They will overbreed her and she might get seriously injured. They are still too young to display such behaviour but you should look out for it.

I'm planning on keeping one or two of the female Muscovy ducklings that my duck hatched. I've only got one pair of scovies. If I keep them will there be a problem with them having their father as the only male? Can there be a problem with next year's hatchlings genetically?

ahaha! that's really funny! ;) there ya go some new videos of our ducklings. When I bought those 2 "goslings" last year I had never imagined I would end up with these... Isn't their mama a pretty girl? You can also hear the male hissing-panting. He is close to them but he can't see...