Goslings Crying For Me

[Ruralhideaway]

I have 2 goslings, 9 days old. They started out in a small tote brooder but moved up yesterday to a big cage that offers them space and more visibility.

Ever since I moved them they cry when I'm not in the room and clamor to be picked up when I am in there. They actually drew in a pair of canadian geese this morning, honking right outside the open window!

Is this normal for geese that are hatched "hands on"?

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Yes... its very normal...
They will settle down before long but will likely get excited any time they see you. I used to hang a shirt i had worn all day in the pen with my loan goose when he was little. He would lay next to it and was calmer...

 

[Ruralhideaway]

Yes... its very normal...
They will settle down before long but will likely get excited any time they see you. I used to hang a shirt i had worn all day in the pen with my loan goose when he was little. He would lay next to it and was calmer...

Aww thats so sweet. Good idea too. I figured with 2 they'd be more independent but no.

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Nope... my two arent as bad as Vyxin was but they still cry when they see me..
Vyxin is almost a year old and has been in the outside pen since February and if he gets out or is let out he makes a b line for the dog door and comes in looking for me... still.

 

[Ruralhideaway]

Nope... my two arent as bad as Vyxin was but they still cry when they see me..
Vyxin is almost a year old and has been in the outside pen since February and if he gets out or is let out he makes a b line for the dog door and comes in looking for me... still.

That's a scream! Surprise visitors good I bet!

I actually never hatched domestic geese. Only ones I shouldn't have been hatching(long time ago, had no idea). That ended with my screens removed from windows but I blamed it on the breed.

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Drives peeps here batty..

I enjoy em.. and theyll always be attached to you but they wont be so bad once they mature...

 

[Cerise1924]

That is adorable. When I had a lone Sebright chick hatch, the chick also cried and complained when I left the room. Since I was at home days, I was able to tuck the chick in a scarf tied around me, and carry it, just like a baby in a carrier. That was a quiet, contented chick! When she got bigger, she stayed in the house and rode around on my shoulder like a parakeet, and perched on my computer monitor while I worked. She was a house chicken until 5 weeks old, when I had more chicks hatch and she could join them.

We still have a special bond. She tugs at my pant leg when I go out to the coop, and she trusts me with her own foster chick.

These geese will always adore you, I'm sure, but I don't know how easy it would be go carry two goslings around in a baby carrier, haha!

That's amazing that wild geese showed up to see the babies.

 

[Ruralhideaway]

That is adorable. When I had a lone Sebright chick hatch, the chick also cried and complained when I left the room. Since I was at home days, I was able to tuck the chick in a scarf tied around me, and carry it, just like a baby in a carrier. That was a quiet, contented chick! When she got bigger, she stayed in the house and rode around on my shoulder like a parakeet, and perched on my computer monitor while I worked. She was a house chicken until 5 weeks old, when I had more chicks hatch and she could join them.

We still have a special bond. She tugs at my pant leg when I go out to the coop, and she trusts me with her own foster chick.

These geese will always adore you, I'm sure, but I don't know how easy it would be go carry two goslings around in a baby carrier, haha!

That's amazing that wild geese showed up to see the babies.

Lucky that sebrights are little! Smart breed too I bet.

 

[goslingluv]

My african is like this he LOVES affection and quiets when he sees me and comes running when i call his name very friendly and people oriented from minute one and he came from a hatchery...