Goose eggs for cooking

[NevadaEmma]

Metzer has a good nutrition guide for geese and ducks. It has what feed for age.

https://www.metzerfarms.com/nutritional-requirements.html

The only things I disagree with it on is that geese should have higher protein when they’re molting, laying, or if it’s really cold out, the guide says their good with just 14% as a maintenance once they’re adults, that seems to low to me for a heavy breed like Toulouse or embdens.

If yours have access to pasture free ranging all day keeping them on a 22% protein feed is fine. It’s a bit too much for small breeds like romans or birds with a sedentary lifestyle but if they’re out and about excercising all day it’s fine.

My geese are fed a 20% feed “Purina flock raiser or nutrena all flock” as a maintenance feed because they are out and active, I do have two smaller girls that have a bit of a weight issue at times because of the feed but with all the bigger birds gorging on it sorts itself out.

Thanks, I have a couple of bags of the Flock Raiser still, but will go to the Kalmbach when they are a bit older so all of the geese can eat the same food. Seems like they are now anyway.

I incubated 8 more goose eggs since Tilly refuses to sit on her eggs. 4 hatched two weeks ago and they are going to their new home tomorrow. Sad to see them go. My Sebastapol has really taken to them and hisses at me when I gather them to go back indoors for the evening.

 

[Goosebaby]

Thank you. I think I understand and will figure out what to do. I hate the thought of throwing away the bad eggs, but it needs to be done.

Just a couple of pictures of LP and Jamal his African Goose buddy. LP seems to have some type of deformity on the corners of his beak, long indentations. It does not seem to have bothered him so far, although when I pick him (her?) up, his breath seems impeded a bit.

The white goose is Leonard, the only one of my four geese that seems to be interested in befriending the two goslings. The father is down right nasty to them and Leonard seems to try to run interference if I am not close by.

Thanks again, Cara

My Delphi has a divot too