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My 18 month Embden goose has gone broody. She’s been laying for about 6 weeks now and started sitting yesterday. I have been taking her eggs but I have a flock of ducks and they tend to lay alongside her, somehow the last few days she has hidden a bunch of eggs and now there’s a stash of about...

Hi there! I am a new goose owner: I bought a breeding pair of Embden back in March and they settled right in and started a family. I have five goslings, now 8 weeks old. They are feathering up nicely but one has a grey head and back (feathers rather than down). She looks a little different in...

Hi there. I'm a first time duck owner and my girls are first time broodies. They're runner ducks and we know they're good for babies because we've previously hatched their eggs under a goose. The presence of the babies seemed to trigger the ducks to sit for themselves, so now I have a set of...

My goose is sat on a mixed pile of duck eggs and her own eggs, due to hatch this week. She’s a first time mum, and this is my first time with a sitting goose too. She has been very conscientious in sitting — has hardly left her nest— so her house is a bit dirty as I haven’t been able to get in...

My Embden goose was an early 2019 baby and is paired with an unrelated gander. They’re definitely mating and she’s laying pretty much an egg a day at the moment, covering the clutch over with bedding. We are up to 5 now. She will occasionally sit on the eggs, uncovered, for an hour or so, then...