Goslings of 2014 Hatch-a-long

[RURU]

It was actually on the goose breeding thread. Rivergoddess hatched out the 1st white gosling ever from my birds yesterday.

Yea Rivergoddess for hatching out the very first white egg from you J!!!!!

 

[Starfire669]

Oh, nice!!  I hope they don´t poop on it first! 

Good point, I think I'll have a human food garden and a goose garden. They do manage to poop in strange places.

 

[jojo14817]

I have a dilemma.....I think my two buff geese are actually a pair. We had been collecting them and eating them but we found blood in an egg. Is it true only male geese hiss? And my female only sits maybe 12 hours a day, is this normal?

 

[8GeeseALaying]

No females will hiss too, especially this time of year. If you found blood in the egg you have a gander for sure. Your goose probably isnt broody yet or is a first time broody and doesnt quite have the basics correct.

 

[jojo14817]

Will the eggs hatch out still ?

 

[livininbrazil]

No females will hiss too, especially this time of year. If you found blood in the egg you have a gander for sure. Your goose probably isnt broody yet or is a first time broody and doesnt quite have the basics correct.

8, wouldn´t you think that it depends what the 'blood' is? For example, with chickens, we can sometimes find a 'something' in the eggs that could be blood or some cast-off flesh from the chicken's reproductive tissues, so I would imagine it depends on the 'blood'....whether it looks like a developing spider vein, or a blob of 'something'. Could this not happen with geese?

I have a dilemma.....I think my two buff geese are actually a pair. We had been collecting them and eating them but we found blood in an egg. Is it true only male geese hiss? And my female only sits maybe 12 hours a day, is this normal?

How regularly were you getting eggs? And if she´s only sitting half the time, then I agree with 8 that she hasn´t got the idea yet.

 

[servpolice]

Thanks Iain! Now i have to see this White african gosling!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Today's hatch... 2 grey Dewlaps and 1 Buff duck


Last weeks Dewlaps.. they are growing so fast!

How adorable..

 

[servpolice]

Now we all know what a male B.AfricanXEmbden looks like(lavender)
And this is what a female B.AfricanXEmbden looks like(photo above)

 

[servpolice]

look at her feet! They look to have a odd pattern colour.
She was born this morning under one of the broody hens