Thanks. I will make sure that I have both oyster shell and calcium available. When she starts sitting, if the eggs aren’t fertile will I need to get some goslings or fertile eggs for her to hatch/ look after. Or will she just give up and snap out of being broody if the eggs don’t hatch?
Many many thanks for the advice. I would probably have removed the eggs, instead I will let her try and hatch her eggs. At the moment I feed Mazurri waterfowl maintenance to my geese. I have two geese and a gander. I am thinking of swapping to Mazuri breeder around end of December - I believe...
She is a lot better. It took her a couple of days to get back to normal. I gave her calcium, which she munched on. She made a nest which she spent time sitting on, but no eggs. Then spent an afternoon floating in the pool looking sad. During this time she didn’t eat much. I was about to take...
Thank you for your help Iain. I have given her a pot of crushed egg shells and made sure she has two buckets of water. She is drinking well. She is quite a laid back goose by nature, but I am making sure that she is kept as stress free as I possibly can.
Hello,
I am a new goose keeper and would like some advice if any of you have time. My 5 and a half month old Embden goose laid her first egg yesterday. It was a little blood stained but looked similar to an egg laid by a young goose who was the subject of a 2013 thread on this forum. Today, I...