Goslings of 2014 Hatch-a-long

[Miss HennyPenny]

Sounds like Hennypenny´s experience!  lol

Hmm all to familiar! Lol

Did you get the eggs from the same place as the moose egg?  I hope this egg keeps going!  

No different one. Only had one pair and seemed like others were having good hatch rates so it's just me I can't hatch gooses!

I need a broody hen!!!

 

[ChickDancer]

My Favorite Expression! WEE WEE WEE!

This is ALWAYS one of my favorite poses, too! I LOVE catching it on camera! And that's definitely a girl there, if she's 100% sebbie.

 

[livininbrazil]

Hmm all to familiar! Lol

No different one. Only had one pair and seemed like others were having good hatch rates so it's just me I can't hatch gooses!

I need a broody hen!!!

So which of your chickens ar most likely to go broody? The Sussex? Looks like most of your hens listed there aren´t the broody kind. Well let´s hope this egg hatches sucessfully and that it´s a female, then she can her own!!!

 

[Iain Utah]

Psue, did I miss the update on your dewlaps hatching????

 

[Miss HennyPenny]

So which of your chickens ar most likely to go broody?  The Sussex?  Looks like most of your hens listed there aren´t the broody kind.  Well let´s hope this egg hatches sucessfully and that it´s a female, then she can her own!!!  

That's right. I picked them for their non broodiness when I started out. No one warned me they were addictive!! But that said, I had a black star and a hyline hatch eggs for me last year!
This year's pullets are all crossed with my dorking rooster and then there's the 2 hyline x welsummer hens. Someone has to go broody. Don't they?

 

[psue]

Did you get the eggs from the same place as the moose egg? I hope this egg keeps going!

WAIT.. you can get "moose eggs"???? How big does that bator need to be?

Psue, did I miss the update on your dewlaps hatching????

2 ext pip yesterday and another this morning... but they are taking their sweet time hatching

Oh, and Napoleon want to go broody

 

[Miss HennyPenny]

WAIT.. you can get "moose eggs"???? How big does that bator need to be? 

 

[Starfire669]

So 2 days ago we had a freaky rain mixed with hail. It wasn't sleet, the hail stones were visible and damaged a lot of my garden plants. My chicken and geese house was soaked from the sideways rain/hail getting in the through the wire ventalaion around the pen. (in Texas, so heat was main concern building pen, we are not supposed to get snow or hail here!). So yesterday I kicked out ALL my birds from their home, 8 goslings, 7 Wyandottes, 7 Reds, 5 Barred Rocks, 6 Buff Orphintons, and 9 Black Australorps. The pen had been divided with the 7 week olds in 1 half and the 2 week olds on the other separated by wire so the big ones can't hurt the little ones. I sent my hubby and kids to watch the flock while I cleaned the pen. Omg that was a mess, a water bucket had a dent from hail stone, and the hanging feeders were wet, had to throw it all out. After a 2 hour intense clean and dry, cause there were some standing puddles in the run. We then had to get the birds back in. The 2 week old babies were easy, since we had put them in a dog playpen. The geese followed me like they always do, and thank goodness most of the chickens followed the geese. But 8 chickens decided to be stubborn. We tried to lure them with food, nope, we tried herding them, nope, i even brought the geese back out since the chickens follow them, 1 chicken followed. That left 1 option, chase and catch the chickens. So picture myself, my 6'3" hubby and 2 boys chasing 7 week old chickens around the yard, falling on our knees and such. Then my cat decides to watch the excitement, I'm sure she though dinner! So we caught her and locked her up and resumed chasing chickens. One idiot Buff Orphinton decided to make straightfor a dog pen, no one was even chasing it at that point! The dog managed to grab the chick by the wing, i herd the squak and ran over in time to rescue the chick, she only lost a few wing feathers thanks to the chainlink fence. Another chick decided to fly straight at my face when i caught the bird next to it. One of my sons nearly face planted diving for a chicken. We did manage to catch them all and no bird was harmed by it all, though the humans have minor injuries from it. My neighbors had a very good laugh about the whole thing, I'm sure.

I can't fully enclose the pen, the birds would cook in Texas heat, I just hope we don't get another freak hail. The chickens have only been allowed to free range 3 times now and Never all at once. I keep the groups to about 10 and that many chickens follow the geese back to their pen nicely. So they are being trained to go home, it just hasn't sunk in for the chicks yet.

I figured I'd give you guys a good laugh.

 

[bibkel]

Chickdancer, yup 100% Sebbies from Metzer. They arrived SOOO lively! They were chattering away at me from the minute I peeked into the shipping box.

Now, the name game.

 

[bibkel]

(It sounds racist for geese :0)

That there's funny right there....(insert redneck tone)

8geese....thanks! Now to wait patiently for my Pilgim's eggs to hatch....