American(Buff, Blue, Lavander,etc.)goose thread! Post pics!

[Miss Lydia]

Update. My little goslings are growing very well. It has been sunny and somewhat decent outside yesterday and today. I put the goslings in a sunny and wind protected area with a shelter with heat lamp. They love it. At night they come in.

Boris sure does like the goslings. He likes to graze and preen in a pool across our yard with the ducks but when he wants to rest he cozies up to the area with the goslings. He has also taken a protective role by keeping the "evil chickens away from them. What makes it comical is that there are chicks in the area he is protecting.

I do have a question. I have newly hatched pekin ducklings. Would it be okay to slowly introduce them to the goslings and brood them together?

Last year I brooded goslings with ducklings but they were the exact same age. Do you think this is too much of a risk of the ducklings getting hurt? It would be much easier to brood chicks by themselves and waterfowl together? What do you guys think?

Thanks

All you can do is try, my feeling is if the ducklings were older they would be more apt to pick on the gosling than the other way around, but the only way to know for sure is to try. So glad to hear Boris has taken on a protective role to both gosling and chicks . We have just hatched chicks under 2 mama hens, My gander doesn't usually like mama hens because they get testy with him, so we'll have to watch closely when they bring out their chicks.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

Update. My little goslings are growing very well. It has been sunny and somewhat decent outside yesterday and today. I put the goslings in a sunny and wind protected area with a shelter with heat lamp. They love it. At night they come in.

Boris sure does like the goslings. He likes to graze and preen in a pool across our yard with the ducks but when he wants to rest he cozies up to the area with the goslings. He has also taken a protective role by keeping the "evil chickens away from them. What makes it comical is that there are chicks in the area he is protecting.

I do have a question. I have newly hatched pekin ducklings. Would it be okay to slowly introduce them to the goslings and brood them together?

Last year I brooded goslings with ducklings but they were the exact same age. Do you think this is too much of a risk of the ducklings getting hurt? It would be much easier to brood chicks by themselves and waterfowl together? What do you guys think?

Thanks

I have three brooders set up right now. But before, I have goslings, ducklings, and a chick all together. They did just fine.

However, for the better good of everyone I separated my Call ducklings and newly hatched goslings into their own brooder with the lil chick, and then I have my four older goslings in a bathtub brooder (teehee ; ), and last but not least a brooder for my four, week old goslings. Phew

Since Pekin ducklings grow so quickly, I bet they'd be fine.

~ Aspen

 

[flockman]

Well it worked putting the goslings with the ducklings. I did have the goslings with the chicks. They got along okay but the goslings really seem to like the ducks. Now everyone seems very happy. When I put the goslings in with the ducklings it was very obvious how much they have grown! Wow! They get big so fast. Won't be long till they can be outside in a more permanent basis.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Well it worked putting the goslings with the ducklings. I did have the goslings with the chicks. They got along okay but the goslings really seem to like the ducks. Now everyone seems very happy. When I put the goslings in with the ducklings it was very obvious how much they have grown! Wow! They get big so fast. Won't be long till they can be outside in a more permanent basis.

 

[flockman]

Here is the protective adoptive father. Boris is so funny how he is so into watching out for the goslings and ducklings. How sweet. Maybe with these 2 girls next year he can be a biological father. The sun was so bright he looks white in the picture.

Not sure what to do with the rain that is coming the next few days. Boris spends his days by them never getting too far. I just don't know if I can put them out when it is calling for rain.

 

[AuroraSprings]

Good job Boris! You should see our baby pen. We have 10+ babies in there and about seven geese surrounding/guarding it on one side and three more on the other side. It's basically a fortress! LOL

 

[RURU]

Flockman do NOT put those babies out if it rains they will get chilled and get sick.....

 

[flockman]

I am not planning to put them out. We are predicted to get 2-3 inches of rain through Wednesday and more on Thursday. I just feel a little sorry for them not getting to go out for a few days.

 

[flockman]

Growing so much already!


I apologize for the bad pictures. My kids had come up with names and then decided to change them. So the names are Mary and Martha. Martha is the one on the left in both pictures. She seems to have developed lobes already. Boris and Natasha didn't until they were almost 4 months. Is this cause for alarm? I had forgotten just how much fun it is to have goslings.

I had to put Boris away just so I could take the pictures. Protective papa!

 

[ChristineR]

So cute. You're making me excited to get mine later this month!