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

[livininbrazil]

Miss Lydia - Thank you for the link, I skimmed through it and will read it more in debth when I have a little more time to devote to concentrating on what I'm reading.

Livininbrazil - No, unfortunately I do not have any broodies. That brings up one of my questions though. If a chicken can hatch goose eggs with good success, wouldn't it work well to incubate the goose eggs the same way I do chicken eggs? A hen wouldn't be wetting the eggs once a day.

I don´t use an incubator, so on that side of things I can´t give a qualiied opinion.. I´ve read that hatching goose eggs in an incubator is far more tricky than chicken eggs., and that still-air incubators are less successful because they don´t lose enough humidity. Also, the humidity for goose eggs varies according to breed, (Chinese higher than Pilgrims, for example) and it changes during incubation, etc, etc. Sounds tricky to me!
Chickens have some success, although they´re different humidity and temperature, too! Amazing. People around here tend to put their eggs under chickens.
(I had a chicken hatch out a gosling, but she only had the egg for the last 5 days, as the goose had crushed the shell, so I taped up the shell best I could, and the chicken, being lighter and brooding her own eggs, obliged and hatched the little thing out. I transferred it later to its mum, and it´s now a young gander and causing havoc with the rest!)
Muscovies do great as goose egg incubators.
I hope all goes well.

 

[servpolice]

chickens are better hatching goose eggs then geese themselves ! i use my chickens as incubaters for my goose eggs every year but i wont let the chicken sit on its own eggs (usually one or two) till my goose eggs are under the broody hen for 15 days ! i hope its not that confusing for ye

 

[servpolice]

i meant that i take hen eggs when they go broody and put about 3-4 goose eggs under da hen and after 15 days i put one or two hen eggs under the broody hen so that when da goslings hatch that i can grab them when hatched and then the hen will still have its own eggs to brood out,so its all fair.

 

[livininbrazil]

i meant that i take hen eggs when they go broody and put about 3-4 goose eggs under da hen and after 15 days i put one or two hen eggs under the broody hen so that when da goslings hatch that i can grab them when hatched and then the hen will still have its own eggs to brood out,so its all fair.

Like I did with the muscovies, (I prefer muscovies over chickens), everyone´s happy.

 

[servpolice]

Haha yea but moscovies are better anyway because goslings will be kept like babies to moscovies but to a hen notting

 

[livininbrazil]

Haha yea but moscovies are better anyway because goslings will be kept like babies to moscovies but to a hen notting

Much less work all-round!

 

[servpolice]

You just made me think that i should get a few moscovies! :/

 

[livininbrazil]

They´re great; easy to keep, eggs are good, (they do try to hide them though), useful incubators and the ones you don´t want to keep go well in a pot.

 

[seminolewind]

After raising geese since last April, I had my first one charge at me yesterday. Normally mild mannered, I'll chalk it up to mating season.

He put his head down and looked right at me with a stern eye. Then he took a few very very quick and forceful steps -- in the slippery mud, making no forward progress, just like a cartoon -- and then acted like it never happened.

Instant karma! I'm still laughing about it.

Mine are mellow but one took quick steps over and bit my gf in the calf. Later he was hissing at me. But my husband calls them over and they eat out of his hand.

 

[livininbrazil]

After raising geese since last April, I had my first one charge at me yesterday. Normally mild mannered, I'll chalk it up to mating season.

He put his head down and looked right at me with a stern eye. Then he took a few very very quick and forceful steps -- in the slippery mud, making no forward progress, just like a cartoon -- and then acted like it never happened.

Instant karma! I'm still laughing about it.

Hi Daisy Meadow, I missed this post..how funny. I reckon MLyd´s right, and he embarrassed himself! (pretending that it never happened). That´s what they´ll do if they have to back down...good oneD! Don´t forget, always stand up tall and even walk towards him, big and tall...and try to do it when he´s in the mud!