Goslings of 2014 Hatch-a-long

[RURU]

8 I a so sorry to hear that about the one gosling.

That was just like my buff gosling I waited so long to get buffs and then to hatch one was great. But it jus dropped dead in the container with the other gosling I had in there with it.

 

[8GeeseALaying]

It doesnt make sense.

 

[Starfire669]

Found one of my tufted roman goslings(Ethels)dead, not a mark on her. Looked like she went to sleep and didnt wake up, so agrivated right now i had a perfect trio of pure tufteds 1 male two females, now i only have a pair.
They were spoken for also. Was supposed to get a pair of Blue cayuga ducks in trade, although i was on the fence about them being ducklings i still was considering them.

I'm sorry 8. Losing babies is tough.

I have regular Cayuga ducklings, and I love them. I'd love some blue Cayugas but can't find them.

 

[8GeeseALaying]

I'm sorry 8. Losing babies is tough.

I have regular Cayuga ducklings, and I love them. I'd love some blue Cayugas but can't find them.

Im down to 10 goslings running loose with their parents.
Im thinking hard on the blues but i dont know about raising ducklings. For me, when it comes to the saying "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" Its the chicken/goose/duck because id rather get the adults and then raise some more that way i have a good supply of eggs. Those months of waiting on young ones to begin laying kills me lol

 

[Starfire669]

Im down to 10 goslings running loose with their parents.
Im thinking hard on the blues but i dont know about raising ducklings. For me, when it comes to the saying "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" Its the chicken/goose/duck because id rather get the adults and then raise some more that way i have a good supply of eggs. Those months of waiting on young ones to begin laying kills me lol

True, but with young ones you can love on them and get them to be as tame as you want. Which is always a good thing. I started with babies for that reason and the cost of starting up. And I don't regret choosing to start with chicks, goslings, and ducklings.

 

[Starfire669]

Forgot to say, I have 1 male, 3 female Cayugas. We could always swap some eggs next year on the Cayuga ducklings, lol.

 

[Pyxis]

Well, I'm starting over. I bought five eggs from beautiful geese that came from holderreads. By the way, if anyone is curious, the person I bought the original eggs from does not seem to have mycoplasma in their flock. I can't explain where it came from; perhaps from some chicken eggs I was hatching and the gosling just happened to get sick and show signs first. Anyway, I made the hard decision to find a home for the sick ones with a nice lady who doesn't mind they have the disease and doesn't plan to ever sell eggs or goslings and I can start over. The whole thing was heartbreaking, but I'm going to look at this as a new beginning.

 

[ChickDancer]

Well, I'm starting over. I bought five eggs from beautiful geese that came from holderreads. By the way, if anyone is curious, the person I bought the original eggs from does not seem to have mycoplasma in their flock. I can't explain where it came from; perhaps from some chicken eggs I was hatching and the gosling just happened to get sick and show signs first. Anyway, I made the hard decision to find a home for the sick ones with a nice lady who doesn't mind they have the disease and doesn't plan to ever sell eggs or goslings and I can start over. The whole thing was heartbreaking, but I'm going to look at this as a new beginning.

That sucks. So the goose egg seller at least got back to you, finally?

I'm still having issues with mine though. The Georgia Poultry Lab still hasn't given me results on my necropsies. I didn't realize it took this long. But I managed to save the last one that stopped eating and started getting weak on me by essentially OVERDOSING it with oxytetracycline. It got a shot, some mixed in with baby food that I force-fed to it (baby food is the BEST food to force feed, I swear), and then some mixed in with the water too. But it's alive and eating/drinking on it's own again.

Glad you're starting over though. I'm on my way to doing that, but really focusing on secure pens right now to stop predators - since that is what essentially culled almost my entire flock anyway (minus the geese and ducks). Although I won't start back up until next spring, so you'll be ahead of me.

 

[servpolice]

Wow i missed nearly 300 post so im not even going to start! I was in Australia for a while(i work from country to country) but now im back in Irelannd for the time being! And i was delighted to see my babies run and chat with me when i came home ,they are huge! My 2 brown africans Male and female(i saw straight away) and my 2 buff male and females all have fat huge thick heads haha oversized for their bodies and all my goslings are well,my chinese goose quit brooding and had 2 eggs under her and they are now in the bator and are my last goslings for this year so that means i have altogether 96 goslings this year! A good year!
Sorry forgot to tell ye i was going to be away for a while and didnt know for how long!
Now can ye all tell me how all of ye are doing and your updates with yer flock

 

[8GeeseALaying]

True, but with young ones you can love on them and get them to be as tame as you want. Which is always a good thing. I started with babies for that reason and the cost of starting up. And I don't regret choosing to start with chicks, goslings, and ducklings.

True! Weird thing is the geese i have now, the ones i hand raised then turned loose in the flock are stuck up little snots and the ones i bought are sweet little babies that will eat from my hand, they had no human contact before me.

Forgot to say, I have 1 male, 3 female Cayugas. We could always swap some eggs next year on the Cayuga ducklings, lol.

That would work! Hopefully i still have my birds by next spring. With everything that has went on, losing my Mom and being pregnant im not 100% about anything right now. While im torn between sadness and excitement, my animals are all i have and im trying my hardest, for lack of better words,to keep interested in them. I dont want this to be like the horses were when i lost my dad, i quit riding and competing, because that was something we did, just like the birds, incubating and hatching was what i did with mom.