Anybody else having an odd breeding season with their geese?

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Yeah, mine are hatching well, too and also having good fertility...just not my geese for some reason...I'm supposed to be doing a trade with someone for some dewlaps soon...so I REALLY hope my sebbies pick it up! Maybe I should try classical music?

 

[ultasol]

I'm getting great fertility and laying from my buff americans, so, of course, the sebastopols are playing hard to get. The dewlaps haven't started for me yet, but with our cool nice and, because of our location (in a canyon) somewhat shortened daylight I'm not too concerned. I had a clutch last year in July from my Buff Americans. As of today, I have ten fertile eggs from the Buffs in the incubator. The one ones not fertile from them so far is a few smaller, 'first year', eggs from young geese.

A good incubator has made all the difference in my hatches.

 

[gottsegnet]

No personal experience but we ordered pilgrim geese from the hatchery this year. They were supposed to ship 4/5, but I got a call in March that the clutch failed and they'd ship the 19th. They never came and I called the hatchery yesterday, afraid they were lost in the mail and hoping I had marked the date wrong. That one had failed too (she said they had left a message which is perfectly possible. The kids delete them sometimes..grrr!!!). Now they're hoping for end of May, but the lady on the phone didn't sound too confident and mentioned it had been a really bad year.

I'm glad my geese weren't all dead in the mail, but I'm so excited it is hard to wait! Hoping they sort themselves out.

 

[pips&peeps]

I think I will be hatching my sebastopol eggs under broodies from now on. I just let my first girl hatch a clutch and they all hatched with no problems and none got stuck or died in the shell from too much humidity. While I watched her set, I did notice that the nest and the eggs were really dry. So maybe we are all doing something wrong by adding alot of humidity to these eggs while trying to incubate them ourselves.

I have some eggs already started in the incubator and I am going to finish them by lowering the humidity to what I am doing for my chicken eggs and see how the results are.

 

[solarquail]

i just got geese they are a year old and im pretty sure i have a trio (no clue on vent sexing geese) and i havent gotten any eggs yet?

 

[MetalSmitten]

I know this is kind of an older thread, but it's mid-May now and I -still- haven't seen any eggs from my pair. I'm getting concerned =/

 

[Puddle Foot Farm]

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Is it their first year? What breed are they?

 

[MetalSmitten]

I'm not totally sure how old mine are, I got them as young adults. I'd guess 2-3 years. The female is Embden but her chosen mate is a brown Chinese. I've seen him trying to mate her for a couple months now, but no eggs at all. =/

 

[Puddle Foot Farm]

Strange.. hopefully someone else can help. maybe start a thread about it?

 

[Golden Valley Farm]

If you can post some pictures. Maybe you have 2 ganders.