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Oh, I forgot to mention, the duck egg that was abandoned by Agnes hatched this morning! He/she is on Craigslist too.

At lockdown time tonight, Agnes had her family inside the chain link pen where the other two geese and my adult ducks live. The babies did well free ranging today, even in the heat. I decided that even though they can get through the chain link, I think I can trust them to stay inside with their...

More pictures. Glam shots for Craigslist: Agnes and her ducklings mingling with Gunther and Gisela: Gunther has taken some pot shots at the ducklings, but Agnes warns him off. I think he’s figuring out to not bother them.

I think their heads have straightened out. And they are less wobbly now. Agnes has had her 5 ducklings for 3 days now, so today I plan to do a test letting her free range with them. I’ll try to take pictures when I do that.

All 5 of Agnes’ remaining ducklings are fine this morning. I think after 3 days penned up together, on Tuesday I will let her out to free range with them and see if she can handle that. And, all 3 eggs in the incubator hatched!! :bun I’m not used to goslings, so I’m not sure if they are ok. They...

Agnes lost one of her ducklings. ☹️ No way to know how come. The other 5 are doing well and seem to be learning her signals on where to go and what to do. Fingers crossed that she is not trampling them and that she keeps them warm enough.

The first gosling is out! This is the one whose egg was cracked by Agnes.

Thank you! Only a little stressed, lol. I did set my alarm for sunrise this morning so I could check on how Agnes and the ducklings were doing.

Update. When I checked on her last night, she was quiet and settled until she saw the light from my head lamp. When I turned it off, she settled again. So I gave her two more ducklings. All 4 survived the night, and I gave her two more this morning. I’d like to give her more, but I’m not sure...

I can do that. I was hoping not to have to brood them myself. In the meantime, I ended up taking the other two geese back out of Agnes’ broody pen and put them back in their regular pen. Then I put 2 golf balls and a ceramic egg in her nest, and she went back and sat on it. My hope was to keep...

So I interfered again, and maybe I shouldn’t have. Again. Today is day 33. Last night I checked her nest, and the one that pipped on day 31 had hatched and died. I don’t know when it died or whose fault it was. There’s been a lot of rain, so I suspect she didn’t keep it dry. Or maybe she...

I’m pretty sure it’s big enough. She stepped away to eat and drink, so this doesn’t really show perspective, but she seemed to have plenty of room the first 30 days while she had that nest inside it. Don’t know how that got turned sideways or how to fix it

Oh! After I posted, I looked out and I can see her sitting! :fl

Today is day 31 for my Brown Chinese goose sitting on eggs. For the last few days, she’s been moving her nest to different spots in her plastic dog house. It got pretty warm here lately and yesterday she moved the whole nest outside the dog house. Then of course it rained last night and she did...