2020 Gosling Hatch-A-Long

[Miss Lydia]

Beautiful!

 

[Gray Farms]

19 geese, 11 females and 8 males. 13 goslings so far.

That's great! They're so cute!! How many geese and goslings do you have?

 

[Gray Farms]

Beautiful!

Thanks

 

[Isaac 0]

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5 more today. The last one is still drying off under the goose. She only set 5 eggs but hatched 100%.

Adorable!

 

[CindyinSD]

Day three on my nine goose eggs, and only one showing the tiny dark spot I'm looking for. I'll give them seven days of course, but... Well I guess if if it turns out there's only one (if it makes the journey successfully) it can be with the ducklings. By the time it hatches they'll likely be almost as big as it is. There're loads of duck itty-bitties doing really well in their incubator next to the goose eggs.

I was looking in The Book of Geese on fertility. Holderread says not to attempt to incubate eggs from breeding stock under two years old. I've read the whole book but I guess I kind of selectively "forgot" that bit...

 

[ColtHandorf]

I have goslings!!!

They are soooo cute. Georgia is still on the nest with them toodling around and on her. You can tell she'd being super patient because they are dragging hay out of the nest and she'll just gently reach out and put it back around her. I noticed Golly parked infront of the door yesterday afternoon and all last night he stood sentry. I thought maybe he could hear the goslings pipping or something. This morning he was lying in the doorway but when he stood up I could see the little puff balls running around. He's being a wonderful dad and keeping them in the house for now and away from my camera. lol

Edited: I snuck out at lunch to check on them. There was one egg in the nest so I popped it in the incubator just in case, but I don’t hear anything. I can’t see well enough to candle it at all. Six goslings in all.

 

[ColtHandorf]

For more pictures and videos see this thread:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/american-buff-geese-hatching-soon.1358943/

Edited to add: Seven goslings. They were keeping one well-hidden all morning.

 

[DiYMama540]

ahhh!! I am so jealous of all these baby pics!! Healthy, happy looking goslings!!
BB goose abandoned her first nest...to try to coparent ducklings She's back at it again though so we shall see!

 

[ColtHandorf]

ahhh!! I am so jealous of all these baby pics!! Healthy, happy looking goslings!!
BB goose abandoned her first nest...to try to coparent ducklings She's back at it again though so we shall see!

Thank you! I’m completely enamored with them. You’d think I’d been the one sitting on them all this time. As far as BB and Chance are concerned, I’d keep all the other birds away from them as best you can. Mine had the entire pen and yard to themselves, bar the single, spare Silver-laced Orpington rooster they didn’t seem to mind.“Uncle” Sterling is very interested in the babies, but Golly and Georgia insist on keeping all intruders at least ten feet away from the babies, including those pesky barn swallows that are swooping around eating insects on the wing. Georgia has been hissing at them all morning.

They both slept in the doorway, effectively blocking the babies inside until I came out this morning to check on them. Once I came out they let the little ones go eat and drink and took them out to play in mud puddles and graze.

Here are some more pictures from yesterday afternoon.

 

[CindyinSD]

Thank you! I’m completely enamored with them. You’d think I’d been the one sitting on them all this time. As far as BB and Chance are concerned, I’d keep all the other birds away from them as best you can. Mine had the entire pen and yard to themselves, bar the single, spare Silver-laced Orpington rooster they didn’t seem to mind.“Uncle” Sterling is very interested in the babies, but Golly and Georgia insist on keeping all intruders at least ten feet away from the babies, including those pesky barn swallows that are swooping around eating insects on the wing. Georgia has been hissing at them all morning.

They both slept in the doorway, effectively blocking the babies inside until I came out this morning to check on them. Once I came out they let the little ones go eat and drink and took them out to play in mud puddles and graze.

Here are some more pictures from yesterday afternoon.

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So beautiful! I'm delighted for you and (I'm afraid), terribly jealous.