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

[8GeeseALaying]

It could just be repositioning itself for its hatch time in a few days. I noticed Mine would rock a little bit about a week before also

 

[seminolewind]

Laying must be getting close. I'm hopeful. Mr. Goose actually turned around and half heartedly nipped my knee. I said to him "Is that the best you can do?" .

 

[8GeeseALaying]

Mine have been nipping my pant legs a lot more lately. I have seen breeding mainly with my younger ones. I have yet to see my older females submit to the ganders though. I have been looking for eggs for weeks and nothing, hopefully this warm weather we are getting this week will jump start my flock to lay

 

[SolarPoweredMe]

It's really hard to get a picture or video that actually shows the curve and lump of her neck... The chest swells and puffs out to the left, and her neck curves like in a cork screw and bends to the right.

It's a movable mass like lump. Doesn't seem to hurt. The neck part feels like our necks when we tilt our heads back. I can shift the chest and neck over to where they're supposed to be.


We've had her on the vitamin cocktail and poly everyday. There's one funny thing I've noticed though, and I want to know if it's a possibility. Can she just be a total pig and be over eating? Can a goose cause a big lump/distortion like this from WAY over eating? When I give them greens, the other one who's having no issues will stop eating after a while... But Xylo just keeps going. THATS when this thing appears. I thought maybe it was a certain type of green and have been cycling through them lately to test, but its only happening when she eats big meals. I further tested by taking the food bowl away (they have a constant food/water available) for a few hours to make her a little hungrier than normal and sure enough when I gave it back she gorged herself to the point of shaking water/food out of her nose and mouth (vomiting I've read?) and there was the crooked neck and swollen lump. It's been freaking us out a good bit, and if monitoring food intake is all it'll take it's a relief!

The little monster is growing so dang fast it's incredible. Ampersand, my husbands baby is way more moderate in growth rate. He's 4 days younger than Xylophone, but she's (maybe he but I gotta pick a sex to call shim lol) exploding in size.



The above was a couple of days ago. Her legs have changed from all black and she's lightened up all over. I can feel feathers everywhere, and can see them poking out on her bum and wings

 

[8GeeseALaying]

Can she straighten it at all? Is it still bent when standing? To me it looks like it is just the way shes holding it when she lays down and that that is her crop sticking out full of food

 

[subhanalah]

Are you providing them grit?

 

[livininbrazil]

Laying must be getting close. I'm hopeful. Mr. Goose actually turned around and half heartedly nipped my knee. I said to him "Is that the best you can do?" .

Well that´s a challenge he´ll take up for sure!!

 

[SolarPoweredMe]

Can she straighten it at all? Is it still bent when standing? To me it looks like it is just the way shes holding it when she lays down and that that is her crop sticking out full of food

She cant when it swells. I'm really starting to think it's just her being a little piggy. She's filling so dang much that it's pushing what would be our trachea to the side. That's what's causing her neck to look and feel screwed like a pig tail. Here we were thinking she was sick.. Well, she's good on vitamins, that's for sure.

 

[RURU]

If you are giving them babies greens please give them baby chick grit to help digest the greens....
Do you think the one goslings needs to see a vet to tell you what might be wrong???

 

[SolarPoweredMe]

If you are giving them babies greens please give them baby chick grit to help digest the greens....
Do you think the one goslings needs to see a vet to tell you what might be wrong???

We've been giving them grit since the first day we started giving them greens. If she shows any issue that's exactly where she's heading! I'm really thinking she's just a little piggy and I'm an overly worried goose mom though. I started looking up fowls with full crops and it looks and sounds exactly like what's going on with her. I feel foolish lol but thought she was sick and was freaking out. Since I've started limiting the greens it stopped happening. Still giving the vitamins cause I figure it can't hurt.