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

[gander007]

Utah pretty birds ! Can't wait to hatch some goosies

I will know by this weekend how my eggs will be developing

Well went to Auction and was CRAZY !!! A friend bought me 12 ~ 2loose eggs, and then another friend bought 9 Embden eggs that she put in my bator ....

NOW someone brought in 36 DOZEN Chinese Goose eggs!!! My friend (auctioneer) bought the remaining 15 dozen @ $3 dozen and sent them home with me to set in my Master Bator!

So I decided to set 50 and will set another 75 in a couple days ~ I have the room to set them ~ BUT I DO NOT want them all hatching at the same time
Could you imagine the cuteness .... I mean craziness

Ever Brooded just a dozen goslings?

So as it sits now

6 ~ dozen Chicken
20 ~ 2loose
50 ~ Chinese
7 ~ Blue Cayuga
11 Rouen
13 Call Duck
23 mixed duck (mallard x khaki)
37 Mixed Purebreds (Cayuga, runner, muscovy, mallard, blue swedish)

AND my Prize eggs
2 Ginger Eggs
4 "hopefully" White Africans

Oh and 1 baby Pot belly Pig

(um yes you heard right)

Wow Big time work ahead

 

[brucelambert]

I know this are young birds, so I was curious if I was missing something, but it seems like I have two that are laying and a third that has not yet figured it out...

 

[psue]

I have 4/5 laying... and the youngest is 2

 

[RiverGoddess]

I raise Pot bellied pigs ~ and my 1st time momma had 4 piglets last night, and only one survived

... BARELY alive this morning

So I put her in the incubator and she has been thriving & have been bottle feeding ever 2 hours ~ she is just a day old, and hope she will make it

 

[subhanalah]

I raise Pot bellied pigs ~ and my 1st time momma had 4 piglets last night, and only one survived ... BARELY alive this morning

So I put her in the incubator and she has been thriving & have been bottle feeding ever 2 hours ~ she is just a day old, and hope she will make it   

are they like rabbits and unless there are at least two, mom won't make enough milk to support the baby?

 

[blueraven]

I have one of my geese on eggs i just put under her a few days ago candeled them and all are growing weeee. but i was wondering since my other goose is going broody how many eggs is to many for them to incubate.

 

[Jharper]

Most of them either have or are trying to internally pip!!!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Most of them either have or are trying to internally pip!!!

 

[Miss Lydia]

I know this are young birds, so I was curious if I was missing something, but it seems like I have two that are laying and a third that has not yet figured it out...

Sometimes it takes a bit but they will figure it out. Once 1 starts to lay soon the others follow.

 

[RiverGoddess]

are they like rabbits and unless there are at least two, mom won't make enough milk to support the baby?

She had plenty of milk ~ but she is a first time mom
It is farely common that they do not know what to do, usually the 2nd time they have it all figured out.

So we are bottle feeding and keeping her temp stable in the incubator?
Then I was going to raise in the brooder with my ducks n goslings....
I do not know if she will make it, but she was barely alive when we found her, now she is running snorting, eating, n squealing.
I also am the one she likes to pee on.