Goslings of 2014 Hatch-a-long

[servpolice]

Im sorry to here about your mother
And i love watching goslings hatch! Some take so long its fustrating! Espically your first ones!

 

[8GeeseALaying]

Thank you, she is doing ok with it so far. She has had two craniotomys and 3 other major surgeries on her body but not once has she let it get her down or depressed.
My first goslings last year were brown chinese which was from my pair (only had 4 geese) until i bought 2 more trios a month later. They took forever and then one had problems, needed help out and when hatched had a "hair lip" as far as geese go. I loved that baby but he didnt make it. Still bothers me that Baby died.

 

[servpolice]

I hope your mother gets better and that you stay happy too and that she can recover !
Tell me 8GL what is a hair lip?!

 

[RURU]

Ruru im looking forward to see your sebe goslings! Espically your buff goslings its really interesting and its going to be fun watching everybodys goslings grow through 2014 8

Serv that is if I get any buffs... Buff females do not produce buff unless the gander carries buff... My sneaky buff Toffee has been cheating on her Grey gander split to buff, with my smooth breasted blue gander Berrie! Berrie was suppose to be a buff and he came out of a buff nest I was told. So maybe he is split for buff we shall see. I will know at hatch if I have any buffs because I remember the color when I got my 2 buff goslings.

 

[Iain Utah]

Thank you J and the best of luck with you hatching as well J...!!!

Thanks, but I am not planning to hatch anything as of yet. However, I am separating my white Africans this week and may get the itch to set a few of those before the end of season. Luckily, my eggs are selling like hotcakes, so none are going to waste.

I incubate my eggs at my mothers house. Nothing will hatch or develope at my house for some unknown reason. Since my mom is battling cancer i am at her house 90% of the time any way so thats another reason i incubate there, plus she likes seeing the babies hatch.

Sorry to hear about your mom, but I think it is awesome you are hatching at her place. What a wonderful way to spend time with her!

 

[livininbrazil]

Let me know what you get. I like hearing the outcomes. My four pieds that my pair of tufteds raised are two girls and two boys. Bill the gander is their dad and their moms are two white chinese Martha and Sally.

What will you do with the pieds? I´m hoping to put a young pied gander to his auntie, who´s a pied, and a young auto-sexing gander to another pied goose, as she´s already produced what seems to be dilute grey youngsters with an older auto-sexing gander, but he has his own Missus. Some of last year´s diluted greys are actually pieds, with blue eyes, and there are some dilutes with brown eyes, so I´ll be interested to see if that means anything...females or males..at the moment I have a feeling that 3 of the pieds are males, but one maybe is a female, which will throw my dilute experiment out of the window...and others are just normal solid grey. They´re all gorgeous, though!

 

[8GeeseALaying]

Thank you lain. She acts like she dreads the incubators being set up but shes right there making sure everything is ok and when hatching starts i catch her peaking through the windows in the lid. Last year she had some how got Dixie to bond with her, being a lone gosling for two weeks was part of it. Dixie has been a big goose from the start, mom went outside and Dixie thought she should go too, jumped out of the rubber maid tub and was standing at the screen door screaming for her. I got a call from her saying please come catch this baby i dont know how to pick her up without hurting her. She had been out for some time before i got the call though, just following mom around inside lol

 

[livininbrazil]

All of ye have names for yer geese and i dont haha i only have one gander that has a name

Usually the first gosling of the year i give names to

I give mine names to make it easy for reference...my first three geese are Guilly(thought it was a boy, called it Gilbert!), Princess and Gloria, mixed-breed, and then there´s Mr Pilgrim and Mrs Pilgrim, and Mrs. Pilgrim no2 (the undergoose), and Spot, the other auto-sexing gander but I´ve not named any youngsters yet as I don´t know which to keep yet. I´d have trouble letting a named youngster go to a new home.

 

[8GeeseALaying]

What will you do with the pieds?   I´m hoping to put a young pied gander to his auntie, who´s a pied, and a young auto-sexing gander to another pied goose, as she´s already produced what seems to be dilute grey youngsters with an older auto-sexing gander, but he has his own Missus.   Some of last year´s diluted greys are actually pieds, with blue eyes, and there are some dilutes with brown eyes, so I´ll be interested to see if that means anything...females or males..at the moment I have a feeling that 3 of the pieds are males, but one maybe is a female, which will throw my dilute experiment out of the window...and others are just normal solid grey.  They´re all gorgeous, though!  

Right now the pieds have been running around with the chinese, which is fine because they are chinese. Its weird though that they know what they are even after being raised by a tufted roman pair. I want to breed them back to the white chinese only, kind of what i am doing with the crossbreeds, to try for more white on the pied bodies.
Yours sound very nice! Especially the blue eyes, none of my pied has blue eyes. I bet your dilutes are really pretty!!

 

[8GeeseALaying]

I hope your mother gets better and that you stay happy too and that she can recover !
Tell me 8GL what is a hair lip?!

Hair lip is just a term i used to describe it. Hair lip actually happens in humans when the lip is not there and appears to be attached to the nostrils.
Here is A pic of Baby's bill the nostril was open all the way to his mouth

Also the top of the bill was loose from skull you can see the fold in the bill where the knob would be at in this pic.