GOOSE BREEDING THREAD - for breeding, incubating, hatching and rearing.

[Anna6]

You just made me think that i should get a few moscovies!

Indeed I was thinking the same and my heart was all set on Pekin or Harlequin.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Indeed I was thinking the same and my heart was all set on Pekin or Harlequin.

Muscovy's are more like geese than Mallard derived ducks.

 

[livininbrazil]

Indeed I was thinking the same and my heart was all set on Pekin or Harlequin.

Get what your heart was set on...
Muscovies are great incubators, are (I find) far more intelligent than the mallard-type ducks, and as MLyd said, they´re closer to geese, calmer in nature compared to the mallard types, or so I´ve found.... but if you get them when you actually like the others, you may end up really disliking the muscovies!!!!

They´re different to other ducks.

 

[servpolice]

I think im going to get moscovies! and a few pekins since i havent had ducks for a year

 

[Anna6]

Get what your heart was set on...
Muscovies are great incubators, are (I find) far more intelligent than the mallard-type ducks, and as MLyd said, they´re closer to geese, calmer in nature compared to the mallard types, or so I´ve found.... but if you get them when you actually like the others, you may end up really disliking the muscovies!!!!

They´re different to other ducks.

Hahahah they are more like geese. I still need to fill my geese slot too. George, my Chinese gander, is having a great time. DH saw him and his new girlfriends and took a picture for me.

 

[livininbrazil]

Hahahah they are more like geese. I still need to fill my geese slot too. George, my Chinese gander, is having a great time. DH saw him and his new girlfriends and took a picture for me.

Well we like to see pics, you know...

 

[servpolice]

Haha yea us people on byc love seeing pics of other peoples geese

 

[Anna6]

Haha yea us people on byc love seeing pics of other peoples geese

OK I will need to move them around so I can post them. I miss my goose but I know in the long run it is better for him.

Here is George, Chinese gander, with all his new girl friends Emden, Toulouse and African geese.

 

[DaisyMeadow]

I've heard of "weeder geese," but am not sure about how effective they are and what they actually eat. I'm thinking of putting some geese (Embden, Toulouse, African, Chinese/Embden, Sebbie/Tufted Roman) into my berry patch. There are apple, plum, cherry trees, which I'm not worried about, but then there's also rhubarb (Which I'll make an effort to fence in if there's any chance of nibbling), strawberries, blueberries and grapes. Will they eat the grass around it and not the berries? Or will they eat the berries, too?

 

[seminolewind]

I was just thinking about planting some raspberries. If they don't eat them, I will.