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

[GardnerGoose]

HELP!
Long story short I am attempting to hatch eggs from my Toulouse Goose. One of the eggs is 30 days old today and has developed a crack in it. I can't candle the eggs I don't have anything powerful enough to illuminate them. I have kept them at 100 degrees' in high humidity this entire time and rolled them daily. How do I know if this is a baby trying to hatch or a rotten egg exploding?

 

[gander007]

HELP!
Long story short I am attempting to hatch eggs from my Toulouse Goose. One of the eggs is 30 days old today and has developed a crack in it. I can't candle the eggs I don't have anything powerful enough to illuminate them. I have kept them at 100 degrees' in high humidity this entire time and rolled them daily. How do I know if this is a baby trying to hatch or a rotten egg exploding?

In my experience when the egg explodes it just goes and there is smelly goo everywhere it sounds more like you have a gosling on the way ....

 

[pips&peeps]

If you hold the egg up to your ear you can usually hear the tapping of a hatching gosling. Sometimes they will even talk to you!

 

[livininbrazil]

The problem with foxes is that they're super smart! If it looks like a trap - they wont go into it. I've managed to trap a couple but in order to do so I've had to give them LOTS of free feeds. I bait the trap with something that is going to smell - fish works well - but also wire in a chicken frame (or something similar) it has to be sturdy enough to trip the trap without pulling apart and allowing the fox to get away.

Then scatter lots of nice smelly tit-bits around and in the trap. The more free feeds they get, the more inclined they are to actually go into the trap. Handle the trap and food as little as possible - any smell of human there and they tend to avoid it. Replace free feeds - if needed - about once a week. They need to be coming to the trap regularly in order to feel comfortable going into it.

If you can shoot it - that's the easiest option - but they're really not easy to shoot.

Good Luck

However did foxes arrive in Australia? someone must have been able to catch the first ones! In England, the farmers shoot them, and, of course dogs will get them. shooting is far preferable to my mind. I don´t like anything suffering, even things that make our birds suffer. Traps work, but it takes time, like Tillyita says. Can you put two chickens in a safe cage with a cover all around, except for the bit that goes up close to the end of the trap, so he goes in more readily?

 

[seminolewind]

I would think at 30 days, the membrane is still intact so it's okay. If in doubt, crazy glue, or a wet paper towel tented over the egg could help. Did the chick do it?

 

[SolarPoweredMe]

Hey there, I haven't been around for a while and the goose I hatched when I first came on here is now 3 months old. Still don't know if it's a she or he or what it is. I'm convinced the guy who sold me the eggs was lying since it doesn't look like any of the breeds he said he has. Any ideas now that she's bigger?

 

[gander007]

Last week ...





Now in the tub ...






Enjoying the day .....






Nothing like clean water to swim in .....






So who want's to go back to the brooder ......

A week and how much has changed

Just had to share

 

[gander007]

Hey there, I haven't been around for a while and the goose I hatched when I first came on here is now 3 months old. Still don't know if it's a she or he or what it is. I'm convinced the guy who sold me the eggs was lying since it doesn't look like any of the breeds he said he has. Any ideas now that she's bigger?

She kind of looks like the one's here .....





In the head your goose look's like my momma ...






How about this mangy mass any look like your's ?????

 

[tillyita]

The problem with foxes is that they're super smart! If it looks like a trap - they wont go into it. I've managed to trap a couple but in order to do so I've had to give them LOTS of free feeds. I bait the trap with something that is going to smell - fish works well - but also wire in a chicken frame (or something similar) it has to be sturdy enough to trip the trap without pulling apart and allowing the fox to get away.


Then scatter lots of nice smelly tit-bits around and in the trap. The more free feeds they get, the more inclined they are to actually go into the trap. Handle the trap and food as little as possible - any smell of human there and they tend to avoid it. Replace free feeds - if needed - about once a week. They need to be coming to the trap regularly in order to feel comfortable going into it.


If you can shoot it - that's the easiest option - but they're really not easy to shoot.


Good Luck

However did foxes arrive in Australia?  someone must have been able to catch the first ones!  In England, the farmers shoot them, and, of course dogs will get them.  shooting is far preferable to my mind.  I don´t like anything suffering, even things that make our birds suffer.  Traps work, but it takes time, like Tillyita says.  Can you put two chickens in a safe cage with a cover all around, except for the bit that goes up close to the end of the trap, so he goes in more readily?  

They were introduced in the 1800's so that people could go fox hunting!

My dogs often "escort them off the property".

 

[livininbrazil]

They were introduced in the 1800's so that people could go fox hunting!

My dogs often "escort them off the property".

Great! A number of animals have been introduced there that have become a nuisance, eh?

I do think dogs have their uses. Around here where I live everyone has dogs, and everyone has livestock, so the dogs are pretty good when it comes to not messing with animals and birds, but also they do keep the wild animals away. One of my neighbours has the odd problem with ocelots getting her young birds, because she´s right out on the edge of the neighbourhood, right up next to the woods. Her dogs don´t seem to worry too much!