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

[tillyita]

I would think they would love the berries. Not sure if this is a wife's tale but I was told rhubar has toxic leaves.

Rhubarb is a high oxalate food. Which means that it contains high levels of oxalic acid. It wont kill your animals to eat small amounts of it but large amounts causes calcium to be robbed from the bones in order to digest it and will result in weak bones that will break more readily. Hi oxalate feeds are mainly a problem for growing animals and include kikuyu grass, silverbeat and beets (as well as the rhubarb).

 

[Miss Lydia]

When we had ducklings loose with the flock my gander accidentally stepped on one of them and killed it, when there is alot of bigger flock members walking around and ducklings are new they can't get out of the way as fast as older ducklings so I keep mine where everyone can see each other but no one can get trampled again.

 

[servpolice]

Geese do excellent under fruit trees to get rid of grass espically and geese would eat any fruit :/ except sours eg. lemon.
all geese are weeders but chinese tend to be best because they move faster and are light and love their greens! only way to teach geese to eat a certin type of weed is to get that certin weed and feed it to the geese when they are less then a week and no grass or other greens but only that certin weed so they will chew and nibble at it and eventually forced to eat that weed , do it for about when they are 2 months old and then let them to other greens and you will see that they will eat that certin weed the most and thats how you create those kind of weeders

 

[SolarPoweredMe]

Yes! why do have babies that you have no clue of what they are?! Make a pick of them and we will identify them

Cause we ordered eggs from Ebay from a mixed flock. They can be Embden, Sebastepol, Chinese, or Pilgrim. It's SOOOOOO exciting! They're due in a little over 1 week now. I know I'm getting ahead of myself and shouldn't get my hopes up... But all of them have great veining, air sac development, and all but 2 are visibly moving. I about died when I saw them fluttering around in there. I'll try to get some video tonight or tomorrow! Thanks!!

 

[servpolice]

Hahahaha Mix breeds are the most exciting! to get! you never know what colour the babies will be! or what they will look like when they are older.

 

[livininbrazil]

It's not a wives tale; it's true. They contain oxalic acid. They taste bad and I've never seen any of my animals eat them, but I would watch them, just in case.

ChristineR, I love your avatar.

 

[Miss HennyPenny]

Hi everyone.

This is going to be the year of the goose for me. Hopefully! I received 4 Toulouse eggs in the post yesterday and they are currently resting. They are not in the best shape. Had they been my own I wouldn't look twice at them for hatching but they weren't cheap so I'm giving them a go. A risk you take when buying shipped eggs I suppose.
Any words of wisdom welcome. Hopefully I'll get lucky. I'll be satisfied if two hatch.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Hi everyone.

This is going to be the year of the goose for me. Hopefully! I received 4 Toulouse eggs in the post yesterday and they are currently resting. They are not in the best shape. Had they been my own I wouldn't look twice at them for hatching but they weren't cheap so I'm giving them a go. A risk you take when buying shipped eggs I suppose.
Any words of wisdom welcome. Hopefully I'll get lucky. I'll be satisfied if two hatch.

Hope you hatch some gosling hoping for the best

most on here use this guide when hatching https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/491013/goose-incubation-hatching-guide-completed

 

[KWSRetMSgt]

Yes this would have been her first attempt at hatching some eggs, the weather on most of the days she left them was fairly warm for the middle of January, but now it's 20 degrees and she hasn't gone back to them except late in the evenings when their all put up for the night. I candeled the group twice and it seemed as if 3 of the seven possibly had goslings growing inside, but now with the weather getting so cold and her still not sitting I'm pretty sure they have stopped. Yesterday (Jan 23) was day 32 and out of the last seven days she's been off more then on. So I'm not expecting anything to happen, every night when I check for eggs I look over her nest and now the egggs are feeling cold so........... It's not looking good.

I'm going to give another week and see if anything happens but I'm not holding my breath.

 

[seminolewind]

I've heard several different ways of incubating. One is removing them every day and spritzing them, the other, not doing it. What do most people do? And humidity level?