Goslings of 2014 Hatch-a-long

Is that the infamous "lamp" =) it always scares me to see them right after they come out of the shell. i know it is inexperience. they always just look so fragile. that one your holding has the prettiest little orange beak! will it keep that black spot that is in the center? Your yard/field is beautiful! Even with the obvious lack of rain it looks so tropical!

It would be a super nice trip!! I have always wanted to go to Brazil! We should all go and meet at Livin's house for the weekend!
Oh, that famous lamp! Haha, just a desk-top lamp, but it´s so useful. It actually belongs to my son, but I seem to use it more than he does!
The little mark on the bill will go..it did on his mum´s and autie´s. This land amazes me. Months without much rain...actually, a year and a half has gone by and it´s hardly rained. The soil here is marvelous, as it holds onto whatever dampness there is.
Okay livin we're planning our trip and that truck jtn has will hold us all. So now we have no excuse.
Are you sure you´d ALL fit in the shebang? You´d fit right in here in Brazil!
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She sounds like someone is stepping on her. It is an awful honk. I hope she grows out of that sound soon.

@livininbrazil Do you get the capybaras? I would LOVE to have a capybara as a pet!




That is neat looking!

I would fit right into that ....seeing that I have a rooster in my living room =)
My two smaller normandy-type geese make a terrible shrieking noise, especially when they´re mating..you´d think something was in pain! So maybe it´s just to do with her small size.

Yes, capybaras are around here. They are admired from a distance, as they carry ticks that can pass diseases to people, and can be aggressive too, if you´re not careful. Some lakes have a number of them resident there, and those get quite used to people. Around here they´re quite wild. There are also little agouti-type animals that are really just guinea-pigs that live wild, all brown in colour. We get them in the chácara near the geese as they like damp areas.


I have been keeping Bruce Lee (Brucie the rooster) separated. when the ducks are out in the yard foraging, I put him in the fenced area attached to the duck run with the three BB bantam old english hens in a crate. They like to dig in the sand so the crate allows them to be near Bruce but not get eaten or pecked (they are so small). between 6-10 am Bruce is my living room in a crate. I havent decided what to do with him. I really enjoy having him crow (inside my house) and holding him because he is like a stuffed animal. I havent researched the breed enough to know if he can live as a solitary animal.....solitary being no hens to mate with. If I cant find any hens that he wont beat up or if I discover that his breed isnt happy being alone (like our ducks and geese) then I will probably re-home him since I dont think it is fair to keep an unhappy animal. The OEB hens will have a tractor built before the cold months (Jan-April). If I decide to keep Bruce, he will have his own separated section of the tractor.

The the only thing I dont like about Bruce is that his booted feet seem to always have poo stuck in the feathers.... I clipped his feathers back as short as I can and I wash him, but it seems he immediately walks through his poo.

I am no sure how to fix that.
I have a whole load of Brahmas, but it´s so hot and generally dry here, they don´t much trouble with the feathered feet. Chickens aren´t as bad as geese, but they do like their own sort...buut he´d be fine if he had them next-door to him in the tractor.


I like bantams but let me tell you those bantam roos have an over population of hormones seems more so than LF breeds maybe it's just because they are so small and move so lightening fast. lol
They´re horrors, aren´t they?
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[ Lydia, what other birds do you have besides the 4 geese? ]

Andrea, I have 15 chickens actually 14 hens and 1 roo. mostly LF EE's Brahma, Black Australorp, my bantams are my roo who is game bantam, I have a Cochin frazzle bantam, and a game bantam hen and a lavender orpington bantam hen. When my LF hens go to chicken heaven { I could never eat them after they have given me eggs for so many years] I'll probably go back to bantams, I actually like the Cochin with the feathered feet, I have my Brahma hen inside last winter for a month treating her for bumble foot and I clipped her feathers back on her feet boy were they nasty from being outside. Not sure how to keep the roo from stepping in his poo though. They just seem to do it no matter what.

I also have 13 Muscovy's 9 ducks 4 drakes ..10.5 yrs down to 1.5 yrs old

I like bantams but let me tell you those bantam roos have an over population of hormones seems more so than LF breeds maybe it's just because they are so small and move so lightening fast. lol
wow ! you have a bunch!
 
I´m not convinced they´d all fit in that shebang!
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Mine sure wouldn´t!
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OK, here are the three out with the goose. No. 4 is still taking its time.



This is the second one to hatch...it has attitude...a male, perhaps....
Look at that stance yes already has attitude. lol but so adorable..

livin i hope you don't mind but MrsH over in the hatching duck thread said her duck got off again and wasn't coming back to sit on that last egg so I took your pic of the gozzies in the box with the desk lamp and shared it with her just in case.
 
Look at that stance yes already has attitude. lol but so adorable..

livin i hope you don't mind but MrsH over in the hatching duck thread said her duck got off again and wasn't coming back to sit on that last egg so I took your pic of the gozzies in the box with the desk lamp and shared it with her just in case.
No probs...works a treat for me! Depending on the heat or cold, I put the box on top of newspapers, etc... helps to insulate, so the temperature stays steady.
But I would have thought that last duckling shlould have hatched by now?
I´ll pop over there in a bit...
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Andrea i have geese for 13 years now and they all know the fields off by heart an go home themselves once they notice it gets dark but i just like bringing them home at times and make sure all gates are closed to 4th field but the fliers usually fly over the trees even tho grass is plenty in first few fields but my fliers never get caught by foxes cause they fly but my Africans (buffs really) always manage to find a gap to the field so i fence the whole field.Africans may be fat and big but i can tell ye they are the biggest travellers and so curious.And my dog does herd the geese but very bad coz all she wants is a stick so she walks infront of the flock which is not the plan and rarely i take my 2 dogs with me which is worse because they start playing while running into the flock.
But the geese know the way home and when they start returning home and this teaches the goslings that.
 
According to my dh too many but he isn't taking care of them so I ignore him most of the time.
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Does DH stand for "Dear Husband"? and I agree on that. he doesnt even know how many we have now because he isnt involved.


This is the second one to hatch...it has attitude...a male, perhaps....
OMG!!! THEY ARE SOOO CUTE!!! Why do they have that pretty stripe on the top of their beaks? is that part of the pied coloring? their little feet seem more orange than the other gosies you have posted. thanks for posting that made my day!

Andrea i have geese for 13 years now and they all know the fields off by heart an go home themselves once they notice it gets dark but i just like bringing them home at times and make sure all gates are closed to 4th field but the fliers usually fly over the trees even tho grass is plenty in first few fields but my fliers never get caught by foxes cause they fly but my Africans (buffs really) always manage to find a gap to the field so i fence the whole field.Africans may be fat and big but i can tell ye they are the biggest travellers and so curious.And my dog does herd the geese but very bad coz all she wants is a stick so she walks infront of the flock which is not the plan and rarely i take my 2 dogs with me which is worse because they start playing while running into the flock.
But the geese know the way home and when they start returning home and this teaches the goslings that.
my two dogs that go out in the yard with me only want to eat their food! its neat that they know where to go. mine are just starting to realize that go to bed means go inside the night time run. maybe they will get there with repetition .
 
{Does DH stand for "Dear Husband"? and I agree on that. he doesn't even know how many we have now because he isnt involved. } yep and he is a dear, but it does get old being told I have too many, finally one day i told him so and he hasn't said much lately. Although i have a Scovy duck that has been broody since last march or April i have lost count lol I have tossed her outside everyday lock her stall door so she can't get back in but she won't quit, so next year she may get a few eggs, when I mentioned that he said more ducks though. This girl is fawn colored I'd love to see what she produces. I only have blk pied drakes though but did mange to get a blue duck from a mating of blue duck to blk pied drake. I feel sad this duck is going on 4yr and never had any ducklings to mother. I have other ducks that haven't hatched any either, i manged to keep duckling free this summer but i missed it and so did the girls, it's just so hard for me to sell them and then you don't know if they would sell either and I have to have room for everyone to sleep at night , my ducks live a long time unless i lose them to egg laying issues so that means my room doesn't open up. I'd love to be able to let everyone just sleep out in the open like livin can but it can't happen here.
 
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{Does DH stand for "Dear Husband"? and I agree on that. he doesn't even know how many we have now because he isnt involved. } yep and he is a dear, but it does get old being told I have too many, finally one day i told him so and he hasn't said much lately. Although i have a Scovy duck that has been broody since last march or April i have lost count lol I have tossed her outside everyday lock her stall door so she can't get back in but she won't quit, so next year she may get a few eggs, when I mentioned that he said more ducks though. This girl is fawn colored I'd love to see what she produces. I only have blk pied drakes though but did mange to get a blue duck from a mating of blue duck to blk pied drake. I feel sad this duck is going on 4yr and never had any ducklings to mother. I have other ducks that haven't hatched any either, i manged to keep duckling free this summer but i missed it and so did the girls, it's just so hard for me to sell them and then you don't know if they would sell either and I have to have room for everyone to sleep at night , my ducks live a long time unless i lose them to egg laying issues so that means my room doesn't open up. I'd love to be able to let everyone just sleep out in the open like livin can but it can't happen here.
We all wish we had the setup that livin has but we make do with what we have. I am fighting the urge to go out and start digging a pond with the hope that it will eventually have some water in it for my ducks and geese. My adult ducks mate like mad and lay eggs left and right but they are not at all interested in building a family. Then there are my 16 Cayugas...the girls are ready but the boys are not. The girls run around bobbing their heads and chasing the boys. The boys just head for the open space and try to avoid them. They are only 18 weeks old and winter is coming so I hope they can hold off until Spring...then of course I will be turning to you Miss Lydia for all sorts of advice and suggestions.

I did just get an incubator with an egg turner so I might just have to trying hatching some of my Khaki Campbell eggs since they won't make the effort. Probably should wait until the Bantams and my little red headed roosters are out of the brooder though.

And, I have no idea if anyone around here is interested in buying ducks either. They won't drive out to by fresh eggs so why would they do it to buy ducks unless they wanted to release and hunt and if that is the case they best not darken my driveway.
 

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