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

[Miss Lydia]

And again!! This pic shows the head gander with the 6 1-month-olds around him, you can just see their feathers coming through, the older 2 goslings each side of them, all feathered up, practically as big as the parents, then on the left is the undergoose, mum of the 6, and the younger gander, dad of the tiny ones that you can just see inside the pen eating lettuce with their mum. I think the bigger ones had already scoffed theirs. Aren´t they great!!!!

They are beautiful, love the way all take to the youngins too.

 

[servpolice]

Look at da goslings O

 

[livininbrazil]

Look at da goslings O

Yes, there are 12 in the pic, can you see them? 2 are big already!

 

[RURU]

What a lovely family you have there!!! Just love baby goslings....

 

[livininbrazil]

What a lovely family you have there!!! Just love baby goslings....

Thanks Ruru, I know some of them are a mixed bag, but they´re ALL totally gorgeous, all geese!

 

[livininbrazil]

2 of the 3 sisters have either eggs or goslings. The 3rd sister was brooding her feet!

She had been doing that for months, and I couldn´t get her to leave her nest-sight, even after destroying it a number of times. Well, bit by bit she started coming off for longer periods, then she noticed her sister´s goslings....mmmmmm....interesting......

She started sitting outside the pen looking at them, so after a couple of days I put her in with her sister and the goslings. They´ve now made a curious little family.
She´s happy, she has goslings to look after. She´s like a gander, takes the adventurous kiddies off for a wander, while the mum hangs about with the tinier ones and provides heat when everyone is tired and cold from the rain. Then they go into the barrel and the sister/aunt sits outside on guard.
Down-side is, unlike the true parents, she scoffs the goslings´ food! Porker! I´m now getting through even more feed.....only for a couple more weeks, though, then they´ll be out free-range with the others, and the 4 goslings will have 2 mums to look after them.
Dad won´t be about then, because he´ll have his favouite wife´s goslings to fuss over...........

 

[Iain Utah]

Thanks Ruru, I know some of them are a mixed bag, but they´re ALL totally gorgeous, all geese!

The mixed bag ones are my favorites.

 

[livininbrazil]

The mixed bag ones are my favorites.

Here´s a mixed bag.....I posted it another thread, but here are some of the geese in a park not far from our house....A real mixed bag! Aren´t they gorgeous!

 

[Iain Utah]

Beautiful!!!

 

[servpolice]

Mixbags?!? Are always fun to have becoz when the goose lays a egg lets say a buff african and a lavender steinbacher and when the egg is layed and incubated you are always curious of what colour the baby is and when you see the gosling you wonder what it would look like months later when adult and what it will look like what features it has

my weirdest coloured gosling was pure grey and yellow ,but it died a day later