Goose lovers – please help!!

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

While we're talking about legbands. About a month ago I bought another pair of American Buffs, they had metal leg bands on. Well about 2-3 weeks ago they fell off, and my other pair of younger ABs are starting to look very similar to the other pair, and I need to be able to tell them apart. I put leg bands on the older pair, zip ties, and they took them off. Maybe my zip ties were too small and thin. I need to try the bigger sized ones.

Also, how do you go about wing banding?

~ Aspen

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

wing bands and leg bands are put on with pliers made specifically for each type of band. The wing bands takes some getting use to and skill (they pierce the skin). if you are using super fine zip ties they can easily be broken. 8" seem to stay on very well, are easy to see and (knock on wood) arent removed by the birds. Butt end leg bands and wing bands also dont easily fall off and arent removed by the geese either, making them good permanent identification.

 

[psue]

In for a penny, in for a pound

I got out voted
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I hope JulieNKC and Quacker Jack know that they might end up helping grow greens for babies IF we get any

.... now I need to grow grass in a green house. I know the oats are good and that Celtic uses wheat.
What else should I mix in for sow for grass flats for geese and goosling in perticular?

Iain....... I dont think this fall/winter is going to go as planned

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Paula given their age I would crack an egg open and look to see if it is fertile before firing up the bator. Just baked cookies with one of the african eggs and it was not.

millet, wheat, oats, clover, kale, mustard greens, collard greens --- all seed and grow well

 

[psue]

thanks for the list........ thats what got me out voted....... It was fertile.
Jerry got goose egg for breakfast

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

I would bet good money one of your older girls is laying, not the 4 month old buff juvenile. Egg weights increase as the girls mature, so last years weights should be larger this next laying cycle because those geese are a year older. Our 2011 Sebbies had medium sized eggs, where the 2010 girls were visibly larger. The 2011 girls should be similar in size in 2013 to the 2010 girls with those hatched this year producing a smaller egg.



Just for reference point here since I know in the past others have not known what a fertile yolk looked like. Fertile is like comparing O and *

 

[psue]

I'll solve it tomarrow as it's the day the next egg is due. I've got a funeral to go to so they wont be out very early if at all. Depending on when I get home. I have Fred the 1 year old classic roman and Dora the 5 month old Embden seperated over night from Josephine.

If it is Fred then her eggs are going to be about 20 grams bigger then the heavest last year. All the weights I can find on the roman sttate an average of 140g and that was her top weight for eggs this spring.

that tomarrow gives us the answers. Jerry has agreed if the eggs belong to anyone else they'll become custard or cake

 

[Marty1876]

Hi guys, just checking in.

FYI, I'm going to be off a lot this week. I just broke my clear wireless antenna, and have to get one sent. I'm also chair of a huge fundraiser going on this friday, so DON"T PANIC if you don't see me.... I promise, I'll be back! (I'm using the wireless at the library now)

Iain, I'm PMing you my cell phone number, text me with any concerns or info. Don't forget, the voice mail doesn't work.

 

[psue]

no additional eggs yet, but all the boys are frisky

Hope Marty gets her geese this week and then get her internet so we can see them !

 

[Iain Utah]

Hey Paulla, glad to hear it was a fluke and hopefully you will have a normal breeding/laying season in a few months.

I'm happy to be sending Marty her trio tomorrow. Wish Florida and California would cool down as I have 19 geese waiting to go to their new homes in those two states.