1st Goose egg for 2010

[BellLisamo]

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I just have a pair right now. They were given away for free. I didnt know what they were until my mom showed up with them and my mouth dropped! I don't know of too many people who have them, and I have no idea where they came from and why the person before me had them. They are about 1 or 1.5 years old now. I plan to incubate any eggs I get from them, so I can get a flock of them.

When you put your Seb gander in with the pom girls... does that make the colored sebs the first try? or do you have to breed back, to get the color you want?

 

[swheat]

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I just have a pair right now. They were given away for free. I didnt know what they were until my mom showed up with them and my mouth dropped! I don't know of too many people who have them, and I have no idea where they came from and why the person before me had them. They are about 1 or 1.5 years old now. I plan to incubate any eggs I get from them, so I can get a flock of them.

When you put your Seb gander in with the pom girls... does that make the colored sebs the first try? or do you have to breed back, to get the color you want?

What a nice surprise from your Mom ! Hope you have good luck with them.

I am not sure of the results, but I think I will have to breed back to get some colored sebs. I also have a seb gander setup with some gray poms girls in another pen.

 

[duck&chickencrazy]

O awesome!!! my geese are laying now....i have a pair of toulouse and chinese weeder geese i just saw my toulouse hen lay an egg, it was sooo cool, i was out there seperating them into their breeding pens and she just laid an egg....my birds are not to happy about be seperated...

 

[swheat]

Congrat on the egg! When I separated mine they were not happy either.. They bout drove me crazy with all noise..

hollering back & fourth to each other day and night, that was several weeks ago and they still get loud every now and then. And I was surprised it was the ganders that were making such a fuss not the girls.

 

[Soccer Mom]

Yay! My Africans started laying Saturday!

Two eggs so far! Wheezie has decided to nest in my feed shed. She made a nest from all the hay scraps on the floor. I tried redirecting her to a nest box we built down by the pond, but she won't have anything to do with it. This morning she was frantically pacing at the feed shed door so I opened up and let her in. I checked an hour later and there was a lovely egg.

You have a white African? Color me all jealous!

 

[swheat]

I took a couple of quick pics of the white Africans...they didn't like the camera..

 

[Soccer Mom]

Nice! Mine are the standard brown, but I just love them. Any chance you'll be selling eggs from your white Africans?

 

[swheat]

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I may, but I will have to see how many she is going to lay. This is her 1st year to lay.

 

[roboboy]

Where did you get your white africans from?

My geese are just starting to breed, gonna have to separate them probably this weekend. Only seen the embden gander so far, bugger's crossing with the production toulouse and buff pomer hens, well that won't be lasting long though.

Oh, and congratulations on all the eggs!

 

[Soccer Mom]

Keep me in mind if you decide to start selling any of those white African eggs. My husband just saw a pic of some buff Africans and I think he was smitten with them as well. I guess we need Africans in ALL the colors.

Good luck with the eggs!