BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[bramblefir]

After fighting the progressive weakness for awhile, my gander passed peacefully during the night. He's buried in the compost to grow some lettuce next year.

On the bright side, I have 7 goose eggs developing well and just added another 5 to the incubator. I guess we'll just be eating the rest of the goose eggs as they're likely not fertile. I'm also growing out another breeding pair of goslings from Metzers.

 

[DesertChic]

After fighting the progressive weakness for awhile, my gander passed peacefully during the night. He's buried in the compost to grow some lettuce next year.

On the bright side, I have 7 goose eggs developing well and just added another 5 to the incubator. I guess we'll just be eating the rest of the goose eggs as they're likely not fertile. I'm also growing out another breeding pair of goslings from Metzers.

I'm sorry to hear this. I had hopes that he would pull through.

 

[bramblefir]

I'm sorry to hear this. I had hopes that he would pull through.

Thanks! He was feisty right up to the end.

 

[CanadianBuckeye]

After fighting the progressive weakness for awhile, my gander passed peacefully during the night. He's buried in the compost to grow some lettuce next year.

On the bright side, I have 7 goose eggs developing well and just added another 5 to the incubator. I guess we'll just be eating the rest of the goose eggs as they're likely not fertile. I'm also growing out another breeding pair of goslings from Metzers.

Aww, I'm sorry that he didn't recover.

Do you still think it was botulism?

 

[hellbender]

Surprise, Surprise, Surprise....I mentioned a while back that my daughter appropriated most of my hatchery-stock Dark Cornish and set 6 eggs under them. I'm feeling better so I went into MY chicken house and witnessed one of the hens jump off her set to grab a bite to eat. Being a curious kind of guy, I checked the nest and wasn't really surprised to find 12 eggs in the nest!

I know Ariel didn't add the eggs but certainly the setter and at least 3 Chantecler hens has plopped eggs into the nest.

I'm sure Areal is aware of the situation(s) but she is yet to mention it to me...don't know what this portends but I was back this afternoon and the hen covering all eggs and seemed as happy as a Daughter of Sappho visiting Martha in Lewisburg.

 

[bramblefir]

Aww, I'm sorry that he didn't recover.

Do you still think it was botulism?

Based on the symptoms that seems to be the most likely cause. I would have had to send him in for a necropsy to confirm.

 

[DesertChic]

Surprise, Surprise, Surprise....I mentioned a while back that my daughter appropriated most of my hatchery-stock Dark Cornish and set 6 eggs under them. I'm feeling better so I went into MY chicken house and witnessed one of the hens jump off her set to grab a bite to eat. Being a curious kind of guy, I checked the nest and wasn't really surprised to find 12 eggs in the nest!

I know Ariel didn't add the eggs but certainly the setter and at least 3 Chantecler hens has plopped eggs into the nest.

I'm sure Areal is aware of the situation(s) but she is yet to mention it to me...don't know what this portends but I was back this afternoon and the hen covering all eggs and seemed as happy as a Daughter of Sappho visiting Martha in Lewisburg.

I'm looking forward to baby pictures.

Today is day 14 for my broody hen. I just happened to enter the cabin yesterday a the right time to catch her taking a break. All of the eggs are still in tact, but Mama Lily has had it hard these past few days. Yesterday it was 93º here and humid enough to feel more like a June day than early April. Luckily we're headed for a bit of a cool-down so she should be happier for the next week.

And when I told my hubby that I needed to do something with the remaining "extra" cockerels so I could turn their pen back into the grow-out pen for my existing babies, he surprised me by purchasing a large "cage" to keep those cockerels in, and even secured a tarp over it for shade. All I need to to is add roosts, a food dish and water and the boys will have their new frat house. After all these years, he still manages to surprise me sometimes.

 

[bramblefir]

Here's a little laugh for you:

Making bath and body products is one of the many things that I do. I have a workroom off the barn where I store most of my supplies and put some bottles of fragrance oils in my coat pocket to take down to the house after I was done with morning barn chores. Well, when I got back to the house I only had 1 of the 2 bottles I'd put into my pocket. Hmm... must have dropped it or left it on the table in my workroom.

The next morning it's not on the road up to the barn, it's not on my table, it's not in my workroom, it's not anywhere that I can find it. Mr. Bramblefir hadn't seen it either when he did evening chores. So, I start on morning chores and hope that I spot it at some point. After turning the ducks out onto pasture I start mucking their stall. The goose is still sitting on her nest to lay her egg, hissing up a storm. She finally gets spooked by me cleaning and heads out of the stall after the ducks.

Look at what was in her nest:


My bottle of fragrance oil! I must have dropped it in their stall when I took the gander out to bury him and the goose decided she needed the nest to smell like "Brown Sugar and Figs".

 

[bnjrob]

Here's a little laugh for you:




My bottle of fragrance oil! I must have dropped it in their stall when I took the gander out to bury him and the goose decided she needed the nest to smell like "Brown Sugar and Figs".

 

[DesertChic]

Here's a little laugh for you:

Making bath and body products is one of the many things that I do. I have a workroom off the barn where I store most of my supplies and put some bottles of fragrance oils in my coat pocket to take down to the house after I was done with morning barn chores. Well, when I got back to the house I only had 1 of the 2 bottles I'd put into my pocket. Hmm... must have dropped it or left it on the table in my workroom.

The next morning it's not on the road up to the barn, it's not on my table, it's not in my workroom, it's not anywhere that I can find it. Mr. Bramblefir hadn't seen it either when he did evening chores. So, I start on morning chores and hope that I spot it at some point. After turning the ducks out onto pasture I start mucking their stall. The goose is still sitting on her nest to lay her egg, hissing up a storm. She finally gets spooked by me cleaning and heads out of the stall after the ducks.

Look at what was in her nest:


My bottle of fragrance oil! I must have dropped it in their stall when I took the gander out to bury him and the goose decided she needed the nest to smell like "Brown Sugar and Figs".

Well what silly goose WOULDN'T want the nest to smell like brown sugar and figs? LOL!