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    What I Learned From My Awful Experience with Avian Flu

    This is extreme overreach. The best way to regain our freedom is to stop voting for politicians who believe in regulation or giving regulatory power to agencies with no accountability, doesn’t matter which party letters are after their name. Vote for de-regulators. If you catch anyone musing...
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    Gaggle of Geese Lovers

    My four big babies (about 2 months) helping my daughter with her homework. This girl is always in water. Our Buff gosling Daisy and her boy, and Dinah, too. And some Narragansett poults that adopted little Mini who almost didn’t make it out of the egg, she’s a bit stunted.
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    Lovers of Chinese geese... anyone..?

    They are so highly individualistic, general rules are often broken. My Brown Chinese is a sweetheart, too. Ours like to make a ruckus whenever there’s a mounting, maybe they think they need tips or encouragement? 🤷‍♀️🤣
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    Lovers of Chinese geese... anyone..?

    I ended up getting a handful of White Chinese goslings this year, hatchery choice. They were all super sweet towards the family, especially since we had their brooder in the kitchen and they got tons of attention early on. When they were about 3 months old (almost full size) they were still very...
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    What Goose Breed is Right For Me?

    I would add my vote for Toulouse. A pair would probably be better than just females when it comes to watch for hawks, males instincts help in that situation. The larger size will also be a helpful deterrent, though, as mentioned before, they are better alarms than guards. My Toulouse ganders...
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    Unexpected new goose

    Since it’s being raised with the chickens and turkeys it should still get along with them alright when it’s older. But geese are individual, so you never know for sure. The Chinese tend to be a bit more aggressive toward other birds in my experience, but it will depend on the individual...
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    Got this gosling at Atwoods. Any idea what kind it is? Sex?

    I agree that it’s an African or Chinese. This is my Chinese boy Chow.
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    Gaggle of Geese Lovers

    My little Embden girl Aurora or Sleeping Beauty. She was a little worn out from shipping, but she recovered quickly. What a little sweetheart!
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    Amazing Geese tell me how yours made your day today!

    My goofy gander, Sunday, gets so excited every time one of the gals sits on a nest. He starts trumpeting and tells the whole neighborhood! It doesn’t matter if it’s his girl or not. We also have 5 young White Chinese who's voices are starting to change from baby chatter to big goose honking and...
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    Shipping experiences this year? (2022)

    Thanks we got tired of ducks and geese flooding the brooders! We get a pack of 3 of these semi-disposable containers for about $4 at Walmart. The bottoms of a couple of them have broken after heavy use and the kids leaving them outside in our plastic destroying weather, but the birds seem to...
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    Shipping experiences this year? (2022)

    Our first Metzer shipment failed horribly (Postal service sent them via the scenic route) but this one came in perfect time and they all look spunky! Our local post office is awesome and they were all so happy for us after the last batch. Most of them had never seen goslings so we let them say...
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    Gaggle of Geese Lovers

    We have quite a few goslings getting big now. We also just got a healthy shipment from Metzer, have 8 about to hatch (though some of those are questionable since they went through two major power outages), and one lonely gosling, Jay, who was the only viable guy in his batch of eggs in the...
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    Gaggle of Geese Lovers

    Four of our hatched goslings, Toulouse and Brown Chinese crosses. Left to right, Armpit, Truly (hiding behind Armpit), Guppy, and Porco.
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    Gaggle of Geese Lovers

    My husband was the one most skeptical about getting geese, but one of our first Toulouse goslings chose him and it was all over! Sunday, his gander would ride on the tractor with him sometimes and is usually the protector of ducklings and goslings, but only yellow ones.
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    Gaggle of Geese Lovers

    We just got into geese last year when we started with chickens. We figured we’d try geese and ducks, too, and eat them if we didn’t like them. They instantly became our favorites. One of the Embdens we got with the intention to raise for eating decided she was my buddy and then ended up with a...
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    Has anyone here Killed/butchered and processed there own Chickens?

    We’ve done chickens, ducks, and geese. My kids have done most of the chickens because raw chicken meat grosses me out, but we had a ton of Jersey Giant crossed cockerels (jerks) that were just begging to be butchered that I helped with. Processing fresh chicken really isn’t bad. It’s not slimy...
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    Shipping experiences this year? (2022)

    We’re in Belfair WA and we’ve never had chicks arrive in more than two day until our last two batches. Our local post office is awesome, but there seems to be a hold up somewhere, maybe the Seattle or Tacoma distribution center. We had an order from Metzer take 7 days before it got to our...
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    Should I get a goose?

    My flock is about a year old. They will start breeding as soon as they start seeing how pretty the goose ladies are in the pool, birds are frisky like that no matter the kind. You might even get a few eggs in the fall and viable ones the first year, we’ve already hatched 12 in the incubator...
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    Should I get a goose?

    Should you get a goose? Yes. The answer is always yes. Get a few of them, the ones that don’t work out (if any) make great eating! We have a ton of hawks, eagles, ravens, and owls in our area and not once have we seen one swoop at our birds or lost one to a raptor. Just their presence is likely...
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    Brooding In Plasitc Sterilite Tubs

    A lot of good advice here, I would add that next time you should make sure to put apple cider vinegar in their water, the kind with the mother in it. I believe the ratio is 1/2 tsp. per 2 cups. We also put a little beet juice that we make from boiling beets in their water sometimes, something we...
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