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

[LTygress]

By the way, as soon as I get the eggs and hatch them out, I'll mention her name here, and give her feedback on the buy/sell/trade forums. And I will definitely mention the year-long wait thing when I do that, too!

 

[JLfarm]

Anybody know how broody embden geese are?

 

[servpolice]

They are aggresive

 

[Miss Lydia]

They are aggresive

Do you think more so than any other broody goose serv?

 

[SolarPoweredMe]

I can hear chicks chirping from inside the eggs in lockdown. I talk or make a "chick chick chick chick" noise near the vent holes and they rock side to side, bump around and this morning I started hearing some chirp back!!! Does this mean they've pipped internally? There is no sign of an outer pip yet and I'm getting really nervous! It's day 3 in lockdown for these 3 eggs. They are from the batch that were shipped ROUGH. The air sacs are all kinds of messed up and saddled, but still developed. I'll be mighty happy if one of these little guys make it, but am worried they'll die if they don't make it out soon. The next round, the ones that were shipped as replacements and were perfect still have a few days before lock down... I'm DYING here!!!

 

[pips&peeps]

It can take 48 hours for them to hatch now, they have internally pipped. Don't hover and keep the incubator closed!!!!!

Goose eggs take 28-32 days.

 

[SolarPoweredMe]

It rocks at about :50 and I can hear it right then. I'm trying my BEST not to hover, but keep going into the room every half hour to peek. Am NOT opening the incubator, just looking, listening to them and squealing! I read that it'll recognize my voice if I talk to him/her... I can't wait!!

 

[gander007]

Hi I am momma a 10 yr old goose and I never sit on my
egg's but my pet human has found 4 of them and put them
in the incubator and it has been 10 days now ....

 

[servpolice]

Miss lydia haha all geese are the same when brooding but all i know is that my embdens greylags and toulouse are my most bitey and attacking while my swan geese types let my rub them and grab goslings from them

 

[livininbrazil]

Miss lydia haha all geese are the same when brooding but all i know is that my embdens greylags and toulouse are my most bitey and attacking while my swan geese types let my rub them and grab goslings from them

And my neighbour has chinese, they´re absolutely terrible with everyone, but I can put my hand into my birds´ nests (only european types) and take eggs or goslings....even my auto-sexing ones which were kept quite wild before I got them, don´t have much problem with me picking up the gozzies. It must just depend on your individual geese, I suppose.