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

[DaisyMeadow]

I love these pics of nice, clean, new, fresh barns and nesting areas. I'd have to take a pic in the first hour or so, to avoid having mud - or worse - on everything. Well, maybe the first day in the barn.

 

[flockman]

I love these pics of nice, clean, new, fresh barns and nesting areas.  I'd have to take a pic in the first hour or so, to avoid having mud  - or worse - on everything.  Well, maybe the first day in the barn. 

Same here!

 

[LTygress]

Lol, why do you think I posted a pic of the nest boxes when I first made them? Haha!

Now, a year later, they are covered in poop and/or poop stains! My silkies can't get on the actual roost bar, so they sleep on top of those nests. But the girls still use them for eggs, so whatever works!

 

[seminolewind]

Solarpowered, usually the larger sized goslings with big personalities are boys. Those are the ones I am typically drawn to as well. Often I have more accurately determined male gender by appearance/personality than by vent sexing. Spirit is a perfect example. He was vent sexed three times by two different vets. All three times they said female. But I knew he was a boy and had the dna testing done to confirm it.

So true. I can see the differences in their personalities. I've done that with silkies as well.

 

[LTygress]

Funny you mention that about silkies. I first got silkies last year as hatching eggs. The entire dozen hatched, but predators got to all except two of the chicks (my fault).

At about 6 to 8 weeks, one got noticably larger than the other. I showed pics and asked around. Everyone said they were the same gender, even with the size difference, and likely both male.

But I knew something was different. I knew they were different, and that difference in size meant something. It was the very first silkies I had ever owned, so I had no experience with them. But somehow I knew.

Today I have a beautiful white silkie rooster who crows louder than everyone else and... a show-worthy white silkie hen!

So sometimes, owner knows best, even if we don't know what we're doing!

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

I love these pics of nice, clean, new, fresh barns and nesting areas. I'd have to take a pic in the first hour or so, to avoid having mud - or worse - on everything. Well, maybe the first day in the barn.

Here ya go DaisyMeadow! I cleaned out my Goose House yesterday just for you...and the geese!

Clean stalls!





LOOK!!!! Not a single drop of poop yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!





And just for cuteness - Here are my Seramas, Call ducks, Bantam and LF Cochins.

Isn't Honey cute? (The yellow Serama hen up at at the front)



Coffee



Daffy & Taffy, and Millie the Splash Cochin.



Blessings -

~ Aspen

 

[Miss Lydia]

I love your pics Mrs Fluffy Puffy.

 

[Miss Lydia]

No wonder mine aren't mating

 

[livininbrazil]

No wonder mine aren't mating

 

[DaisyMeadow]

Here ya go DaisyMeadow! I cleaned out my Goose House yesterday just for you...and the geese!

Wow! That's a great clean house. I won't show those pics to my birds, lest they get jealous!

Do geese ever nest off the ground? I have a bank of nesting boxes about 1.5 feet off the ground with a roosting bar in front. The ducks and chickens seem to be drawn to them, but the one goose who has nested has put hers on the ground under a tree. Even in the snow, she took the time to lay in the same spot, burying the eggs under the dirt under the snow.