Goslings of 2014 Hatch-a-long

[Buck Oakes]

I used pied as a reference to it but I want each goose to have two colors

 

[Buck Oakes]

Like this color but also buff

 

[8GeeseALaying]

Thats a saddleback. Thats what im trying for this year. Last year i got pieds with a brown chinese gander and a tufted roman goose. This year im planning to breed a pied female from that cross to a tufted roman gander, i think adding more white to the cross will give me more of a chance for saddlebacks.
You could try a pilgrim gander with a buff goose, if thats what you have. Im not sure what it would give you but that would be a wonderful experiment and im sure the goslings would be beautiful.

 

[Miss HennyPenny]

That means next week sunday! Mine are 2-3 days before! This is exciting! And its good if your at work because you cant do anything but watch the baby hatch and you just want the baby to get out of the egg! So thats why its good to be away that day

Ooh! It could be a close one. Moose was 2 days early so we could be pacing the floor together!
I just hope work is busy otherwise I'll have no fingernails left.

 

[Miss HennyPenny]

I believe the situation with the 3 young ganders was the problem. At noon today these weren't here when i went back to the barn and checked on the way. Kind of funny that the very next day after i put the "felons in jail" i get all these.

e woop woop!!

 

[livininbrazil]

Hey I'm looking to Bree Pomeranian geese, my brother has some buff geese so If I were to mate them with pilgrim geese will they be Pomeranian geese or are they just there own breed

Hi Buck Oakes. If you want saddlebacks, I´d say you´d be better off buying Pom-types/saddlebacks to start with. Pilgrims are auto-sexing. They have the dilute gene. Buffs are self-colour, and Poms are spot gene. You´d have to go a few generations using the spot gene birds to create good saddlebacks. It´d be much easier to just buy them first, if that´s what you´re after.

 

[livininbrazil]

Thats a saddleback. Thats what im trying for this year. Last year i got pieds with a brown chinese gander and a tufted roman goose. This year im planning to breed a pied female from that cross to a tufted roman gander, i think adding more white to the cross will give me more of a chance for saddlebacks.
You could try a pilgrim gander with a buff goose, if thats what you have. Im not sure what it would give you but that would be a wonderful experiment and im sure the goslings would be beautiful.

Hi 8. This year I´ll be putting a young pied gander (pilgrimxwhite) to his auntie, being saddleback, in the hope of producing some saddlebacks.
When some of these pieds hatched last year, some of them looked to be saddleback, but feathered uyp pied. so the one that most looked saddleback when a babe, I´ll put him to his auntie. My other saddlebacks that I have here are auto-sexing females, so I´ll put them to 2 other pilgrim ganders, and hopefully I´ll get the right outcome...white males, and grey and maybe saddleback females, depending on the genes inherited. What fun!!!!!!!

 

[livininbrazil]

Thanks psue, I watched her tonight when she went inside she seemed to having a problem getting situated, I was thinking of taking some of her oldest eggs out, Not a good idea?She has 10 now 4 of Beignets and 6 of her own.

MLyd, how many did she sit on last year? That should give you some idea of what she considers a full nest.

 

[Miss Lydia]

MLyd, how many did she sit on last year? That should give you some idea of what she considers a full nest.

She sat on 9 livin, this morning she came pouring out of the goose house right along with sam so i went in and took her 2 oldest eggs and 2 of the new ones J sent and put those 2 under my Scovy, I figure she can sit tight on them till I see some kind of sign from Missy, Joy scooted them right under her. When Missy gets serious then I'll take them back to her, those 2 were the only warm ones. I just hate to lose this chance.

 

[Iain Utah]

Miss L, this is not your only chance for Sammy/Missy to have babies. I can always send more eggs next month if Missy is not inclined to go broody just yet. We'll make it happen, one way or another.