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

[poult]

Aw that's a good gander! My goose bites me & hisses on occasion but he isn't too bad he & his lady got pretty worked up though when I caught her under my bunny hutch laying her first egg! This morning when I got another guess who was standing in front of the egg? My gander.He started honking so loud my girl was just hanging out away from the nest but my little boy was protecting it then I took it & he left the coop I think he is kinda catching onto what an egg is now!

 

[Miss Lydia]

I will be so glad when the season ends. Poor Sting (my gander) is going crazy protecting his girls. Sometimes he hisses so much that he gets the hiccups (or goose equivalent). So far he has not managed to get me but the day is coming I am sure. Just hope there end up being some babies to make it all worth his while.

thank you for the good laugh I can just see it all. It's nice to know we're not in this alone. or our gander has turned into a serial killer and we're next on his list.

Poor sting with the hiccups Babe is doing it too. lol.

 

[Miss Lydia]

My African male that's usually too scared to come near me has been hissing at me ever since my females started laying

Really that's amazing, my Embden gander likes to get right in my face and let me know I am intruding and neither goose is even laying yet. Although I did get my first Muscovy egg yesterday.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Aw that's a good gander! My goose bites me & hisses on occasion but he isn't too bad he & his lady got pretty worked up though when I caught her under my bunny hutch laying her first egg! This morning when I got another guess who was standing in front of the egg? My gander.He started honking so loud my girl was just hanging out away from the nest but my little boy was protecting it then I took it & he left the coop I think he is kinda catching onto what an egg is now!

Are you going to let her brood?

 

[poult]

Are you going to let her brood?

I would but those eggs are going to be unfertile.No wonder I haven't seen my geese mate I have two girls! I just watched my 'gander' lay an egg! Fail in my part! so I just have a goose with a real bad attitude LOL!

 

[flockman]

I would but those eggs are going to be unfertile.No wonder I haven't seen my geese mate I have two girls! I just watched my 'gander' lay an egg! Fail in my part! so I just have a goose with a real bad attitude LOL!

Well you should find a gander for them. Boys are easier to find than girls.

 

[seminolewind]

I have one laying eggs, one wall flower, and 2 gander who hiss at me, and I've gotten nipped and I grabbed one only to have the other one come to his defense. Those sweet little goslings - 2 grew into monsters!

 

[mightymax]

Hey there seminolewind...what are you doin' in this neck of the woods

 

[mightymax]

My goose isn't laying yet either. I sure hope it doesn't turn out that I have two boys...
But if it does, I guess 'poult' and I could always swap out a bird to make two happy couples !!!

Gus ran up behind my gf today, bit her on her leg, and, well...basically just gave her a good 'goosing'

I laughed and laughed...OMG, I just couldn't help myself. I mean, in my defense, you try to picture a 40-somethingish woman who has raised two grown boys, is sturdily built, and used to drive a school bus full of screaming, hormonal pre-teen children back and forth to school everyday and is now a licensed Psych. Tech. working in a maximum security forenesic hospital for the criminally insane...imagine her run,skip,jumping across the yard, waving her hands behind her while screaming like a school girl, "No Gus!!! No!" "Bad boy Gus! Don't bite mommy,
that's not nice!!!" Picture that taking place at your house and I'll bet you'll see what I mean. You just can't not laugh !!!

It would be criminal not to!

Anyway, do I need to provide a nest or something for them to lay their eggs in? I put a really deep covering of pine shavings on the floor of their Master Suite that they stay in at
night, but what if she gets the urge to lay in the middle of the afternoon and the Hospitality Staff haven't cleaned their Suite yet...Will she just lay them 'wherever', or should I put
out another layer of pine shavings in the area where they free-range during the day? And how would they know that the shavings were put there for them to use for that purpose? It's
not like I can put up a sign there that says "Please help yourself to some pregnancy pine shavings, hint, hint...lol !!!" (at least not until next year when I will already have taught them to
read

!!!).

Goodnight !!!

-kim-

 

[poult]

Well you should find a gander for them. Boys are easier to find than girls.

Yes! I am glad their not two boys at least I'm getting edible eggs!

My goose isn't laying yet either.  I sure hope it doesn't turn out that I have two boys...
But if it does, I guess 'poult' and I could always swap out a bird to make two happy couples !!!

Gus ran up behind my gf today, bit her on her leg, and, well...basically just gave her a good 'goosing'    
I laughed and laughed...OMG, I just couldn't help myself.  I mean, in my defense, you try to picture a 40-somethingish woman who has raised two grown boys, is sturdily built, and used to drive a school bus full of screaming, hormonal pre-teen children back and forth to school everyday and is now a licensed Psych. Tech. working in a maximum security forenesic hospital for the criminally insane...imagine her run,skip,jumping across the yard, waving her hands behind her while screaming like a school girl, "No Gus!!! No!"  "Bad boy Gus!  Don't bite mommy,
that's not nice!!!"   Picture that taking place at your house and I'll bet you'll see what I mean.  You just can't not laugh !!!     It would be criminal not to!  

Anyway, do I need to provide a nest or something for them to lay their eggs in?  I put a really deep covering of pine shavings on the floor of their Master Suite that they stay in at
night, but what if she gets the urge to lay in the middle of the afternoon and the Hospitality Staff haven't cleaned their Suite yet...Will she just lay them 'wherever', or should I put
out another layer of pine shavings in the area where they free-range during the day?  And how would they know that the shavings were put there for them to use for that purpose?  It's
not like I can put up a sign there that says "Please help yourself to some pregnancy pine shavings, hint, hint...lol !!!"  (at least not until next year when I will already have taught them to
read   !!!).

Goodnight !!!

-kim-

Lol I'm always walking around then Assyra my goose or Dello my rooster attacks my leg and I turn around & say,"Thats what I get after all I've done?! Well maybe I deserve it."

My birds just lay where they lay and I get use to the fact they won't listen to me