Adding gosling to human imprinted goose

[Miss Lydia]

She'll most likely be fine if you leave her in the house while you move her.

I had 2 day old gosling that I raised inside till they were [I felt old enough to be with my goose pair] they were 3 weeks old. I did take them out daily to meet and great the adults. You'll most likely have to remove her eggs before she'll show interest in a new gosling.

 

[The goose girl]

She'll most likely be fine if you leave her in the house while you move her.

Great, that's actually what I thought would be best. I need to find some strong people to help me lift the house, and she throws an actual hissy fit if anyone but me and her other caregiver gets within ten feet of her house when she's nesting. If I close the door she won't see the movers and hopefully not feel as threatened.

I had 2 day old gosling that I raised inside till they were [I felt old enough to be with my goose pair] they were 3 weeks old. I did take them out daily to meet and great the adults. You'll most likely have to remove her eggs before she'll show interest in a new gosling.

How long did it take for the adults to accept the goslings? Did they take over at any point - assume the parenting role? And did the goslings accept the adults as their parents? I was really hoping to avoid raising the gosling myself.

 

[Miss Lydia]

It took about 2 weeks might have been sooner but my female was getting over the loss of her gosling that died during hatch she really did mourn. But every day me and the 2 babies would parade by her house where she sat and about one week in she really got curious by 2 weeks she was out watching from a distance by 2.5 weeks her and the gander were following behind them when we went for walks. so me being over protective waited till 3 weeks old before one evening the goose and gander went into their house and I put the 2 goslings in with them. I stood at the window and watched both goslings went over and laid down next to the female [Missy] that was it they had their family.
Now yours maybe completely different she may accept right off but that is something you'll just have to watch and see how it all goes. I hope it all works out they are such loving parents.

 

[Iain Utah]

Happy to hear you are getting your goose a friend!!

The gosling should latch on very quickly to your goose. And even being imprinted to you, your goose will accept a gosling of any age. It may take a few minutes or a few days. The key is keeping them together continuously and not interfering with their bonding.

I've moved broody geese before, sometimes it works, but it usually results in goose taking a break before setting up a new nest.

 

[The goose girl]

Good news: Her other caregiver was released from the hospital, so I don't have to move her. It was a happy reunion, she had clearly missed him. So now I only need to find a gosling. Or rather two goslings. I talked to a very experienced goose lady yesterday, and she recommended getting two, so if anything happens to one of them, there'll still be a gosling playmate. She also recommended getting day-old goslings or at least as young as possible. So now the search starts!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Awesome sounds like it is all falling into place, hope you can find the goslings now.

 

[The goose girl]

It is NOT easy finding day-old goslings this time of year! But I was lucky today, I made contact with a guy who's expecting Chinese goslings in about 8 days, and he's willing to sell two of them to me.
He didn't think it would be a problem that the goslings are a different breed than the mother goose. Does anyone have insights regarding that? Do they still speak the same language?

 

[Iain Utah]

No worries there. When you only have a few, they usually all link together as one group regardless of breed. On the other hand, when you have groups of distinct breeds, then they migrate towards their own breed.

Chinese are personally not my favorite breed. If it were me, I'd go for a breed I like over making sure they are super young goslings. Even if you get an adult male, I'm sure she'd bond up pretty quickly.

 

[The goose girl]

New plans again. A guy I called yesterday called me up today and said he'd forgotten about the eggs in his incubator, and now two had hatched this morning. So tomorrow morning I'm off to get me two little grey Danish goslings - he had bingo night tonight. I'm so excited! I think they're so pretty, and they're the same breed as my goose, just a different color, so we shouldn't have any language difficulties.

I'll put up a cheap gazebo and net the sides, so the crows won't be able to get to the little ones.

 

[Iain Utah]

YAY!! That sounds like a perfect solution. Congrats!!