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

[servpolice]

And when you guys are all busy with tiny peeping things, mine will all have become great big thugs!!!!       I´ll be reading the posts, though!

i cant wait to show you all my babies and im going to make my 21 geese all brood this spring

at this point of the year at my place i hate killing my geese coz people are to lazy to do it ! But thats life but goose meat here is very good profit :-D

Im going to have alot of goslings this spring cant wait !

 

[livininbrazil]

i cant wait to show you all my babies and im going to make my 21 geese all brood this spring

at this point of the year at my place i hate killing my geese coz people are to lazy to do it ! But thats life but goose meat here is very good profit :-D

Im going to have alot of goslings this spring cant wait !

Wow is that 21 geese as in just the females? How many ganders do you have? Do you pen them all off in pairs, or let them get on with it free-range?

 

[livininbrazil]

And what do you mean by you hate killing the geese because people are too lazy to do it? Do you sell them for meat, but as the buyers don´t want to butcher them, you do it for them?

 

[servpolice]

And what do you mean by you hate killing the geese because people are too lazy to do it? Do you sell them for meat, but as the buyers don´t want to butcher them, you do it for them?  

ive around 35-45 geese /as in ganders and goose and all of em are nearly pairs some im going to forcepair and ive 21 acres of field and behind my house ive a little 5 acre field where they sleep and at breeding season ive loads of brooding hutches and the geese pick themselves which they want and the ganders stand next and guard but the hutches are so close that the ganders keep fighting (which i think is cool).

And i sell geese year round and every month is quite busy but in may-june and november-December are my busyest and in november i sell certin goose breeds for christmas and i sell the goose alive and whole but when people call me and say" can i buy a goose" they also ask me to kill it and pluck it also and i bond with my geese so its hard to kill a goose you remmber since it was born

 

[livininbrazil]

ive around 35-45 geese /as in ganders and goose and all of em are nearly pairs some im going to forcepair and ive 21 acres of field and behind my house ive a little 5 acre field where they sleep and at breeding season ive loads of brooding hutches and the geese pick themselves which they want and the ganders stand next and guard but the hutches are so close that the ganders keep fighting (which i think is cool).

And i sell geese year round and every month is quite busy but in may-june and november-December are my busyest and in november i sell certin goose breeds for christmas and i sell the goose alive and whole but when people call me and say" can i buy a goose" they also ask me to kill it and pluck it also and i bond with my geese so its hard to kill a goose you remmber since it was born

Yeah, that´s why I give away my muscovies...don´t want to kill them or eat them. But I won´t do it for someone else either.
You have a huge place, then. Small field of 5 acres!! Sounds great!
But how did you get started with all of this breeding geese for food? Did they come with the property? Do you have someone there that showed you how to do it, because you didn´t rear geese in Holland, did you?
You seem to have your hands full there.....Goodness, imagine the number of goslings you´re going to have around next spring!!!!

 

[Iain Utah]

You have a bigger group than me, serv! I have 19 females.... and a total of 36 geese. I will "free to good home" a bird here and there, but I won't butcher them or allow them to go to someone who intends to butcher them. I also have no problems tossing out fertile eggs from my girls to avoid unexpected big numbers of babies.

 

[livininbrazil]

You have a bigger group than me, serv! I have 19 females.... and a total of 36 geese. I will "free to good home" a bird here and there, but I won't butcher them or allow them to go to someone who intends to butcher them. I also have no problems tossing out fertile eggs from my girls to avoid unexpected big numbers of babies.

I know in Europe goose is very popular for meat, and I´m relieved that here I don´t have to worry about butchering the geese like serv does...no-one here that I know of eats goose.
People have them to make their place look nice.
Last year I only let my geese rear a very small number of goslings, but this year I was curious, and people do ask if I sell the geese, (3 people waiting) as they´re not easy to come by, so I let my geese produce more this year...out of curiosity as to if my theoretically auto-sexing breed are really breeding true(I´m sure they are, but the guy I bought them from had no idea of their origins), and what would result from my mixes as well. Experiments.
Next year I´ll control the numbers, and of course, though I´ll have more breeding as I´ll keep a number of this year´s youngsters, but I´ll let this year´s females that get broody next year sit on the older females´ eggs. Then we´ll eat the extra eggs. Yum. I´ll have a line of the auto-sexing breed and a number of the mixes/pieds (hopefully) as they´re so pretty as a rule.
I don´t intend to compete with either of you two for numbers, though!!!

 

[8GeeseALaying]

Whoa 35-45 geese....i thought having 20 was a lot.
I did have a guy contact me in the summer asking if i had any for sale then preceded to tell me he had 200 already, i did NOT sell him any of mine. I was afraid there was something weird about it or they were possibly not getting the attention they needed.

 

[livininbrazil]

Whoa 35-45 geese....i thought having 20 was a lot.
I did have a guy contact me in the summer asking if i had any for sale then preceded to tell me he had 200 already, i did NOT sell him any of mine. I was afraid there was something weird about it or they were possibly not getting the attention they needed.

I would imagine that most of those 200 are destined for the plate........can´t see any point otherwise. And then wanting to buy more....I think you were right not to sell.

 

[RURU]

Love the flock.
Geese and horses together, thats how it should be lol

My sebs go in with the horses all the time or over right by them....