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

[livininbrazil]

2 are a little bit shorter then the other 2 does that count as being smaller and there is 3 that stay together and one of the 3 runs the 4th one off alot hard to catch them all together unless they think i have food or its feeding time i ll see if i can get better pics if the ran would stop and the wind would go away i can get some good pics

Definitely sounds like 2 pairs, then.

 

[livininbrazil]

For those that have Giant Dewlap Toulouse geese.

I met a women that has Sebastapol geese who told me not to get the giant dewlaps because they can break your arm off or something close to that extend. She also seemed to imply they could be rather mean and appeared to convince me to consider Sebastapols or a smaller geese. Any thoughts on this and why she would say that besides being passionate about the breed she has and maybe wanting to sell some to me?

We have researched geese extensively and both DH and I feel most passionate about the Giant Dewlap Toulouse. We plan and have arrangements in place to hatch eggs the end of this month.

We all our own breed/breeds of goose are the best! I read a post on here recently that said sebbies are the nicest breed of geese...well I think mine are!

and they´re not sebbies!

Just do research, as you are now doing, and get what appeals.......most importantly, don´t be frightened of them, whatever the breed! Have fun!

 

[livininbrazil]

Yea geese hate small random people and they are never scared of little people so thats that reason

"small random people"...love it!

 

[Iain Utah]

My white African girl is in her new nest box. I'm relieved to see the trio settling in nicely.

I also have my first broody of the year.... a buff dewlap yearling. I highly doubt any of the eggs are fertile, but she can practice for next year.

 

[DaisyMeadow]

This is my first breeding season with adult geese. I hatched out most of my geese last spring, so this is their first breeding season, too. I have 23 geese in all: Mostly toulouse and embden, but I have some embden-chinese, one african-embden gander, one embden-toulouse gander, one tufted Roman-seb gander, and 3 chinese-toulouse ganders. I do not know my female-male ratio, except for the 7 I know are ganders for sure. Everyone free ranges in the same acreage.

I thought I was doing pretty well by stealthily following the girls to see which ones were making nests where. I noted that the embden-chinese girl was using the nest under the apple tree, and the embden was in the burn pile. These were consistent, and I thought I could mark those eggs by their location. Until Friday, when I let them out and they went to their respective nests, followed by a toulouse, who was first stalking the embden-chinese girl, then 1/2 an hour later stalking the embden girl. Later I found the toulouse in the embden nest. So now I have no idea how many are using each nest and which ones they might be. I had thought that I could at least have an idea of who the mothers of the goslings were, but it looks like I'll just have a generalized, mixed-up mess.

On top of that, on my afternoon rounds today, I checked what I thought was my chocolate muscovy nest, only to find that one of my rouen girls has decided to go broody on it. So I'm not sure whether they are all rouen eggs, or if there are some muscovy eggs there, too. Whatever it is, I think there are more than 15 of them.

And I had a surprise baby goat on Wednesday, which was a full two months after the projected due date from my calculations of her first breeding date.

Nothing like a week like this to make me feel like an utter and complete farming noob! I swear, I do have some idea what I'm doing. Really, I do.

 

[Miss Lydia]

This is my first breeding season with adult geese. I hatched out most of my geese last spring, so this is their first breeding season, too. I have 23 geese in all: Mostly toulouse and embden, but I have some embden-chinese, one african-embden gander, one embden-toulouse gander, one tufted Roman-seb gander, and 3 chinese-toulouse ganders. I do not know my female-male ratio, except for the 7 I know are ganders for sure. Everyone free ranges in the same acreage.

I thought I was doing pretty well by stealthily following the girls to see which ones were making nests where. I noted that the embden-chinese girl was using the nest under the apple tree, and the embden was in the burn pile. These were consistent, and I thought I could mark those eggs by their location. Until Friday, when I let them out and they went to their respective nests, followed by a toulouse, who was first stalking the embden-chinese girl, then 1/2 an hour later stalking the embden girl. Later I found the toulouse in the embden nest. So now I have no idea how many are using each nest and which ones they might be. I had thought that I could at least have an idea of who the mothers of the goslings were, but it looks like I'll just have a generalized, mixed-up mess.

On top of that, on my afternoon rounds today, I checked what I thought was my chocolate muscovy nest, only to find that one of my rouen girls has decided to go broody on it. So I'm not sure whether they are all rouen eggs, or if there are some muscovy eggs there, too. Whatever it is, I think there are more than 15 of them.

And I had a surprise baby goat on Wednesday, which was a full two months after the projected due date from my calculations of her first breeding date.

Nothing like a week like this to make me feel like an utter and complete farming noob! I swear, I do have some idea what I'm doing. Really, I do.

 

[servpolice]

Daisey meadow did you say you had a African cross embden gander?!

 

[servpolice]

My white African girl is in her new nest box.  I'm relieved to see the trio settling in nicely.

I also have my first broody of the year.... a buff dewlap yearling.  I highly doubt any of the eggs are fertile, but she can practice for next year.

Lets see at the end of the week how they are settled ! I would love to see your baby white africans (i can say that hundreds of times)

 

[gander007]

Just what i thought you have 2 males and 2 females and the reason they run off others is because they feel boss and they are because if you had more geese they wouldent do that but ganders only do this to act cool infront of its buds and the one its chasing away is female since when ganders that are only a year old are best of buds till its their 2-3 breeding season : l

so i also have some thing else to ask why does one of them always attacks my nephew but never bothers me

This is because they see you as their mother(but that also might change) And is your nephew a child?!

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Hahaha that women has no idea whats she saying about dewlep toulouse! Espically the breaking arm part since no goose can do that maybe to a 3 year old

Hogwash is a light word, ours are the most tame pets, chat and follow my boys everywhere. Nibbles on his buttons and gloves and will basically eat out of his hands.

my nephew is 10 years old they chased him then bit him but they didnt hurt just scared him he had no marks on him at all

Yea geese hate small random people and they are never scared of little people so thats that reason

]I'm also pretty sure its because he ran away, if you tell a goose you are scared, you'll never have its respect without a LOT of work!

These are the same exact geese that are at the Loma Linda Veterans in California as with all the people there some one would have
been attacked the words needed to describe the person you are talking are not allowed to be used on BYC as the Mediator would
be all over you and that person would be put off BYC !!!!!!!

So I will just go like this she sounds like a lawyer in a court room explaining something that never happened or should I say like a
lawyer just hacking crap in a divorce case and if a sane person was listing it would sound much space aliens landing in other words
the idiot you are talking about hasn't two brain cells to rub together what BS

My boys chase these things around from the time they were two years old

Oh and both of them are teenagers now

Knuckle-head in the middle right is over 30 lbs and the only
person he ever nipped was me for collecting goose eggs ....

Feeding time at the zoo

Excuse me I need to go out on the front porch and have a smoke and cool off

To all the readers who did not loose their cool as I did Bless You

gander007

 

[servpolice]

"small random people"...love it!  

hahaha its what first came to my mind! Oh and brazil its day 20 on paddys day which is in 9 minutes