Goslings of 2014 Hatch-a-long

[buff goose guy]

 

[RURU]

Candled the 2nd batch of 5 eggs I put in the incubator and 4 fertile and growing. So now the 5-6 of the first batch a few days ahead of these first batch. So am not sure about one of the first batch eggs.

Then brought in 15 more eggs resting in my closet tonight...

 

[livininbrazil]

Well that's great news. In that case I don't mind what it is. A few goose eggs a year would be a bonus though.

Well they´re not always great friends, serv, especially come breeding season when they want to mate and the other thinks "Not likely, matey!" So, Penny, I do hope the new one is a girlie. I have one family that hatches mainly males, and the other hatches mainly females. Now that´s strange, because it´s supposed to depend on the environment; i.e. feed, minerals, etc that the female is getting in her diet. At least, that´s what I´ve read. It seems to work with my muscovies, though. Most of them are females that hatch.

 

[livininbrazil]

I am sure it will be a happy reunion. They really get along really well, having been raised up as youngsters together.

Same here, no problems. Once the gozzies are about, life becomes calm again. (For them, at least, just not for me!

) I like your avatar, by the way.

 

[Iain Utah]

Thanks, LB!

 

[Miss HennyPenny]

Well they´re not always great friends, serv, especially come breeding season when they want to mate and the other thinks "Not likely, matey!"  So, Penny, I do hope the new one is a girlie.  I have one family that hatches mainly males, and the other hatches mainly females.  Now that´s strange, because it´s supposed to depend on the environment;  i.e. feed, minerals, etc that the female is getting in her diet.  At least, that´s what I´ve read.  It seems to work with my muscovies, though.  Most of them are females that hatch. 

Yes one of each would be the ideal but I guess there is nothing I can do but wait and see. In any case, Moose could be a well built female!

 

[Miss HennyPenny]

Just a picture of Moose doing his second favourite thing after eating.

 

[livininbrazil]

Yes one of each would be the ideal but I guess there is nothing I can do but wait and see. In any case, Moose could be a well built female!

Well that´s not impossible! I have one female here that I was sure was a male for ages!

 

[livininbrazil]

Just a picture of Moose doing his second favourite thing after eating.

Oh, what a lovely little gozzie. I like it when my lot come up for eats, then all down to the stream to wash it down.....then back up the hill again to see what they missed the first time around.

 

[8GeeseALaying]

2 more eggs today so now 5 girls are laying, and i found a new made nest in one of the hutches i gave them.
Also i should have Tufted Toulouse. I saw Tucker the toulouse breeding Ethel the tufted roman. Thats a first i have ever saw either of the toulouse mating.