Goslings of 2014 Hatch-a-long

[servpolice]

Good to see lots of people has babies ! Oh and one of my goslings my AfricanXEmbden baby cant walk and is two days old but is chatting away and drinking and eatting but it just wont stand ! It looks like it never will?!

 

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Family one with 4 wheel parents

 

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family 2 at one of the pondxs and it seems that they have 3 boys and 3 girls

 

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Risk taking pic

And family 3 with 2 babies one their own AfricanXEmbden and the other a pied tuff
I think you can see chip and 8 in the background

 

[Starfire669]

Ok ive 8 babies under the heating lamp and two of them i took from a mother that hatched out 9 babies so i took two babies one is a pied tuff and its sister is all dark
oh and now 3 pairs of geese are walking around with their babies

Congrats! There is nothing more special than the sight of gozzies with their parents.

 

[Starfire669]

I'm concerned about my 8 week old geese. Their legs still shake a little from time to time, and the knee joint is very large, not swollen just boney and bigger than the legs. They also lay down a lot during their grazing time, I don't know if it's laziness or their legs aren't strong enough yet. They do run sometime and no one falls when they run. I switched them to game bird feed with niacin in it 2 weeks ago, and have been adding brewery's yeast to their water, what am I missing?

 

[Iain Utah]

Starfire, not sure if what you are seeing is normal for their age, but I personally would not feed them game bird and extra niacin. I would hope at their age they are outside at least 8 hours per day on grass. I prefer Flockraiser over gamebird feed, and if you really want to feed them the best grain, order Mazuri waterfowl maintenance feed.

FYI.... to those who encourage niacin, there is such a thing as too much niacin causing an imbalance and I caution people to not overuse this supplement. I have personally never used a niacin supplement on growing waterfowl, but my goslings are outside at a very early age and young grasses contain a high level of niacin.

 

[Iain Utah]

Serv, love the pictures!!! Congrats on all your new babies! Why can't the one gosling walk? Are his legs splitting out the sides or deformed?

 

[Starfire669]

Starfire, not sure if what you are seeing is normal for their age, but I personally would not feed them game bird and extra niacin.  I would hope at their age they are outside at least 8 hours per day on grass.  I prefer Flockraiser over gamebird feed, and if you really want to feed them the best grain, order Mazuri waterfowl maintenance feed.

FYI.... to those who encourage niacin, there is such a thing as too much niacin causing an imbalance and I caution people to not overuse this supplement.  I have personally never used a niacin supplement on growing waterfowl, but my goslings are outside at a very early age and young grasses contain a high level of niacin.

I have been reducing the amount and frequency of brewery's yeast over the last week. I was concerned that after 6 weeks of deficiency they needed the extra. But I too believe in the adage "too much of a good thing is bad". The bluebonnet gamebird feed is thebest we can find locally, I have looked for flock raiser and cant find it. The goslings are averaging about 6 hours outside a day, I'm trying to increase their time outside but am scared of leaving them unattended. I'm worried some of the strays down the street will tear my chain link fence to get them (they tore a hole in my neighbors fence to get at chickens and another persons fence to get a dog in heat). When I am out with them those dogs won't come near, I am not scared of them and have a bat and gun handy to defend my animals and the dogs and their "owners" know it.

I am planing to grow sprouts from wheat and oat seeds and feed it to the geese and chickens as a natural tender grass feed. I'm doing this as a way to help them over winter and am starting now to the timing and frequency right.

 

[servpolice]

Serv, love the pictures!!!  Congrats on all your new babies!  Why can't the one gosling walk?  Are his legs splitting out the sides or deformed?

ive no idea! Iain, he came out a huge egg and looked fine ,he was born with its brother same time and the brother is all normal but he isnt but in the beginning i thought it was normal but now i know its not. its like he split his legs of the way he was formed :/
But he acts just normal ,