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Thank you for your reply! Herself and her pop have been with the original 4 for about 11 days. Maybe I'm being unrealistic about how long it takes for acceptance to happen... And I think we may have a slight improvement today... But we're on the cusp of "leave them be, it'll happen" vs getting...

Hi everybody, I'm hoping someone can help! We are newbies at keeping geese, we're more used to hens and turkeys! Having always wanted some geese, and with a newly reseeded paddock at the ready, we acquired 4 Embden x Roman geese a few weeks ago, all around 3-4 months old. Lovely, friendly birds...

But they're only small... Nobody will notice a couple more :D Based on that logic, it's just as well we don't keep ostriches, huh?!

Yes, sorry... That was my understanding alright, but got my terminology mixed up :-)

Oops! I've been meaning to get back to you all! Yes, all 3 turned out to be roosters, as did a fourth "pullet" we had bought from the same breeder... Oddly, this 4th one was small, physically understated, and very feminine, but turned out to be the cockiest of the lot... The rest of my hens were...

The lady we bought them from showed us her broodstock, which consisted of Welsummers and Barred Rocks... she also had some Leghorns. Whilst I could be persuaded that the parents of ours were not necessarily purebred, I'm pretty sure those two breeds are almost exclusively in the mix, though in...

Hi Michael and bantamFan4Life, Thank you for your welcomes! Michael, I'm going to guess that with your surname, you have strong Irish ancestry? There are soooo many O'Shea's (O'Shay's) in the beautiful county of Kerry, in the far southwest of Ireland

Oh lordy. Thanks junebuggena!

Okeydoke... Again, all photos here taken on a horrible, windy wet day... Urgh! This is a side view of the grey speckled hen to the back-left of that photo-of-3... This is a not-so marvellous shot of the dark one to the right... And a decent shot of the original one in doubt! With above...

Thanks junebuggena! However, I know it's not the best photo as it's only with white one I wanted to highlight, as the two behind we have no doubts about, they're all pullet. Indeed, the very dark one to the right is no time away from laying, her comb is reddening more every day (that bottom...

Hi all! We added to our little flock last week with 4 (we're told) Welsummer x Barred Rock pullets. We *think* they're around the 20 week mark, perhaps slightly older, certainly one of them is looking like she's getting ready to lay, but the others look a bit off it yet. However, there's one...

Thanks CT, I think my denial is all the deeper because this hen (?) is the funniest... A real goofball. Anyway, I'll get some pics up soon and we'll put the debate, and denial, to bed! Thanks for the tip about other Irish folk here, I'll check that thread out too!

Hi everyone! I stumbled across this site recently, and I thought I'd better stick around! Some great advice and hopefully some hand-holding for me as I navigate my way to becoming an experienced hen lady! I live in rural Ireland, we've just moved to a place where we've space to keep some hens...