Geese dont lay?

[Fraoch21]

We started off 4 years ago with a trio of embden geese and between the 2 girls they laid roughly 10 eggs a year for 2 years then we got another pair and that year everything stopped. We never got any more eggs so last year we sold the oriiginal gander and the older goose and kept one older goose and a pair of young ones. We still havnt had any eggs this year though. We see them sitting and making nests, same as last year, but we're getting no eggs? Is there something we're not doing or do they need something specific to get them to lay? It's quite annoying since we would like to hatch some eggs

 

[jenlynn4]

are you sure that they are not laying and the eggs are getting eaten by a preditor??? Are you feeding them good quality layer feed? I'm no goose expert by far, just a couple suggestions?

 

[Fraoch21]

I'm pretty sure they're not getting eaten cause we're getting eggs from all the other birds and we had them locked in the other night with no success. They get fed layers pellets and barley aswell as being free range all day to graze

 

[CorinneP]

they may have been nervous if they werent used to being locked up. .. They can hide them in some pretty sneaky spots. Good luck hope you stary getting more Eggs