Goslings of 2014 Hatch-a-long

[Miss Lydia]

I am hoping that all this "back seat of the Chevy" carrying on has them all preped and ready to go in the spring. I would like nothing more that a bunch of little goslings running around out there...except maybe 15 or 20 little black Cayugas...why not both!!!!

Be careful what you say, well I have to be careful here, having Muscovy's I would be over run in one season.

 

[jtn42248]

Be careful what you say, well I have to be careful here, having Muscovy's I would be over run in one season.

Well since Cayugas tend to be willing to sit their own eggs and I have 2 drakes and 14 females I could be overrun by little fuzzy butted peepers in the spring...we shall see. By the way. I also have 2 adult drakes (Blue Swedish and Khaki Campbell) and two female Khaki's and one female Blue Swedish. They typically lay and egg a day each. Yesterday they did not lay even one egg. Today when I went to let them out they had laid 5 eggs. Is it possible/typical for a duck to lay more than one egg a day?

 

[andreacroyle]

All the geese in this pic are the ones i hatched in the incubator 7 months ago (My African gosling are not in this pic)

Serv, what kind of incubator do you have and recommend?

Yeah This was them a while ago in there little bath they are so funny to watch will keep updated. Will be going into the big pen shortly with my turkeys and ducks and chooks so will be more photos to come

I love that baby pool, i have never seen one like that! Do your chickens get a long in the same pen? how do they stay dry with the messy water fowl? I have decided that mine will have the same nighttime pred proof coop with a separate area, but a different day time pen. my ducks are so muddy.

And just a pic of my little pied tufted female also a flier since her parents are both also crossed with greylag .

What a pretty goose! I dont know if it is the angle of the pic, but her face shape looks different than i have seen.

Okay here ya go..

ML I think Babe's face shape looks very feminine compared to ? the white gander. I dont know if it is a breed difference or a gender difference. Babe's body is very stalky, but look at the difference in definition of the neck compared to the gander. Once again, is the slight difference from breed or gender, i dont know. My two geese still sound exactly alike. I actually cant tell them apart when they are talking. Oliver walks around with his head stuck out just like your gander in this pic, but he has taken his role of being king of the flock. except they are all afraid of Bruce the little rooster. I enjoyed your video. my geese dotn sound like that. they have a completely different language.

Very pretty

Another BrownAfricanXEmbden male(Lavender) This thrend is kind of Dead!

The spotted one is male? What a pretty bird!!!

I think that happened here last Jan we had about a week of kinda warm weather and man everyone jumped on the band wagon ducks were mating I even got a few eggs, then back to winter and it all stopped, The geese hadn't even started up mating yet they waited till feb this year. so will be interesting to see what all happens this winter.

my 6 month old muscovy duck has started laying eggs. not broody, but leaving eggs in weird places. the first one had a shell that was so thick it was hard to open, next day she laid two that were squishy, i tossed them, next two days she laid two more perfect eggs in random spots. I have fed the eggs back to the sick chickens. I didnt know they laid this late in the year and so young.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Serv, what kind of incubator do you have and recommend?

I love that baby pool, i have never seen one like that! Do your chickens get a long in the same pen? how do they stay dry with the messy water fowl? I have decided that mine will have the same nighttime pred proof coop with a separate area, but a different day time pen. my ducks are so muddy.

What a pretty goose! I dont know if it is the angle of the pic, but her face shape looks different than i have seen.

ML I think Babe's face shape looks very feminine compared to ? the white gander. I dont know if it is a breed difference or a gender difference. Babe's body is very stalky, but look at the difference in definition of the neck compared to the gander. Once again, is the slight difference from breed or gender, i dont know. My two geese still sound exactly alike. I actually cant tell them apart when they are talking. Oliver walks around with his head stuck out just like your gander in this pic, but he has taken his role of being king of the flock. except they are all afraid of Bruce the little rooster. I enjoyed your video. my geese dotn sound like that. they have a completely different language.

Very pretty

The spotted one is male? What a pretty bird!!!

my 6 month old muscovy duck has started laying eggs. not broody, but leaving eggs in weird places. the first one had a shell that was so thick it was hard to open, next day she laid two that were squishy, i tossed them, next two days she laid two more perfect eggs in random spots. I have fed the eggs back to the sick chickens. I didnt know they laid this late in the year and so young.

Thanks on comment about Babe, sure hoping it's true. I wonder if since your in Fl and more tropical that Muscovy's go by a different time table as far as laying,I've never had one lay the first season they hatched always next year. I'd get her on some extra calcium in the form of Oyster shell or calcium gluconate laying weird eggs like she is is she is working out the kick s in her system or she is in need of some extra calcium. But if this has been going on for longer than a week it's probably not working out the kinks. All of mine have stopped laying now most as of last week except for 1 and now she is through. And no more breeding for this year Yahoo!!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Well since Cayugas tend to be willing to sit their own eggs and I have 2 drakes and 14 females I could be overrun by little fuzzy butted peepers in the spring...we shall see. By the way. I also have 2 adult drakes (Blue Swedish and Khaki Campbell) and two female Khaki's and one female Blue Swedish. They typically lay and egg a day each. Yesterday they did not lay even one egg. Today when I went to let them out they had laid 5 eggs. Is it possible/typical for a duck to lay more than one egg a day?

No usually but has been done, are you sure they weren't hiding them? They are good at that too. Sounds like your going to take over your part of Texas with water fowl.

 

[jtn42248]

No usually but has been done, are you sure they weren't hiding them? They are good at that too. Sounds like your going to take over your part of Texas with water fowl.

Sure they were not hidden. I cleaned their pen yesterday and put down new bedding. I have heard of two eggs in one day but from more than one duck on the same day???

You are right, I may overpopulate this part of the state with water fowl...now if I could just find the water

 

[Miss Lydia]

Sure they were not hidden. I cleaned their pen yesterday and put down new bedding. I have heard of two eggs in one day but from more than one duck on the same day???

You are right, I may overpopulate this part of the state with water fowl...now if I could just find the water

So 3 ducks laid 5 eggs in 1 day? Well if they all looked normal[eggs] probably just a fluke and most likely will work itself out, I'd make sure they are getting enough calcium though to keep everything running smooth.

 

[jtn42248]

So 3 ducks laid 5 eggs in 1 day? Well if they all looked normal[eggs] probably just a fluke and most likely will work itself out, I'd make sure they are getting enough calcium though to keep everything running smooth.

Only thing I can figure out it the issue with the Blue Swedish drake where I had to catch him and put him in "time out" because he was attacking the Khaki drake. They may have stressed and held back an egg that one day and then today let loose and gave me two each. One of the Khaki females did a double egg lay several months ago so I suspect it was the two Khaki's that laid two and the Swedish female laid the 5th. Everything looks o.k. and they get plenty of calcium as well as foraging all day.

 

[andreacroyle]

I'd get her on some extra calcium in the form of Oyster shell or calcium gluconate laying weird eggs like she is is she is working out the kick s in her system or she is in need of some extra calcium.

it only happened once and she has laid an egg everyday this week, but i thought the same thing and put her back on the mazuri breeder food since she needs more calcium. she isnt acting the same not sick , not broody, just different. slower than the rest, not as lively. and yes 6 months seems early maybe its because farmer bred them to be meat birds. she prides on how big they are so maybe her system works faster from genetics.

Blue Swedish drake

i would like to see pics. i think i have a mix. i keep all boys separated from girls at night in the same coop but separated by a wire fence.

 

[jtn42248]

it only happened once and she has laid an egg everyday this week, but i thought the same thing and put her back on the mazuri breeder food since she needs more calcium. she isnt acting the same not sick , not broody, just different. slower than the rest, not as lively. and yes 6 months seems early maybe its because farmer bred them to be meat birds. she prides on how big they are so maybe her system works faster from genetics.
i would like to see pics. i think i have a mix. i keep all boys separated from girls at night in the same coop but separated by a wire fence.

Here is what I call my adult flock:



The Blue Swedish drake is in the foreground. The Khaki Campbel drake is the one with the dark head. The two Khaki Campbell females are the tan ones and the Blue Swedish (crested) is the lighter grey behind the Khaki drake. I think the Swedish female laid one egg and the two Khakis laid two egg each in one day. Because of the time it takes to make an egg I am guessing they had one to lay and kept it in because of the stress of the Swedish make trying to attack the Khaki male. The the next day, when things had calmed down and the "family" was back together they had a second egg in the pipeline and like magic...two eggs each. I am guessing it was them because they have consistently laid and egg a day since they started. If I was in the duck egg business I would have nothing but Khaki females. They are egg machines.