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That should be one interesting family once they all hatch! I wish you & your hen great success! Right now I have 4 hens setting on a total of 13 goose eggs. There is a Light Sussex on 6, a Speckled Sussex on 4, a bantam on 2, and a tiny Dutch Bantam on 1. I pray they all will hatch!

That should be fun, I wish you success! You know that the goose egg takes about a week longer to hatch than the chicken eggs, did you set them on the same day? If so, then the hen will want to leave the nest when the chicks are a day old, she probably won't want to go back to the goose egg...

It is funny to see these little hens leading their big babies around, bluck-bluk-blucking all the way, scratching in the ground and calling them over to eat. And funny to see the goslings peeping and following their tiny foster mommies around, running to catch up with tiny wing flaps outstretched.

The goslings are 3 weeks old now and growing enormous! I have listed them for sale now https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=548283 as I think their foster moms are almost ready to return to their lives as chickens. But they are still dutifully tending to their big babies...

Glad y'all like them! These are Embden geese, the females are *supposed* to go broody but none of the females were interested this year. So when these bantam hens went broody I decided to experiment by giving them goose eggs to hatch. They stay outdoors in bottomless cages during the day, but...

Look how much my goslings have grown in a week! Biscuit's two boys following her around Chiquita's baby girl is already as big as she is! Here's part of my gaggle of adult geese Another hen is setting on 3 more goose eggs, they're due to hatch Mon or Tues!

I meant that I think goslings are good for your health, I just look at these and feel my blood pressure going down. Aaaaahhhhhhhhh, fluff therapy!

Chiquita's gosling hatched today!!! It had been pecking away at one end of its egg all day yesterday. This morning it hadn't made much progress, so I picked away just a little bit more around the opening it had already made. The gosling was apparantly ready to hatch, once that extra bit of...

It's the morning of Day 29 and WE HAVE GOSLINGS!!! There are two ultra-adorable fluffly little goslings in Biscuit's nest, and the egg under Chiquita is pipping. This is so wonderful because I wasn't certain the eggs were still viable, and wasn't sure that these little hens could successfully...

I think today is Day 25, anyone remember how long it takes to incubate a goose egg? I'm guessing there will be goslings this weekend if all has gone well. Both girls are dedicated setters, I tried to peek in the eggs with a flashlight but I'm not good at knowing what it is I'm seeing. I...

Good news, little Chiquita has decided to set on her ginormous egg, I hope she'll be able to turn it all right. I wrote an X in pencil on the side that's facing up tonight, let's see if it moves position. And I found a fresh goose egg in their nest this afternoon, so I put it under Biscuit...

Please say a prayer for success here! Tonight I set 2 broody bantams with one goose egg apiece. They've been setting for a few days on little bantam eggs so I know they're committed to the task. Tonight I swapped their eggs for goose eggs. Biscuit is a practiced professional and has hatched...