Goslings of 2014 Hatch-a-long

[livininbrazil]

This is Bolshy's hatchmate/sister who we affectionately call Weirdo after she kept trying to mate with my buff dewlap gander and then built her nest under our house's front door landing, well beyond our reach. Bolshy is only a week or two into cooking her eggs on her own nest.

Technically speaking, I bought Bolshy and Weirdo last July when they were a few days old to brood with a solo late buff dewlap gosling. But my husband claims that all ducks are "his" and all geese are "mine" with a few exceptions here and there.

I thought it might be like with the children...when he´s naughty, it´s "look what your son did..." When he´s wonderful, it´s " My son´s so thoughtful...."

Well, weirdo is very pretty, like her bolshy sister! Nice babies. Congrats to you...and hubby!

 

[8GeeseALaying]

Getting closer, my incubator is peeping like crazy. Im having problems keeping the humidity up today even with all the thunderstorms going through and humidity being high, its surprisingly low inside. Im breaking out the hatcher to move them into that i never have any problems with it.
My parakeets are talking to the gossies and they both love it, its like i have two lamaze coaches for my hatching lol

 

[Starfire669]

Getting closer, my incubator is peeping like crazy. Im having problems keeping the humidity up today even with all the thunderstorms going through and humidity being high, its surprisingly low inside. Im breaking out the hatcher to move them into that i never have any problems with it.
My parakeets are talking to the gossies and they both love it, its like i have two lamaze coaches for my hatching lol

Lol, how cute!

What kind of incubator and hatcher are you using? Which ones would you recommend?

 

[8GeeseALaying]

Lol, how cute!

What kind of incubator and hatcher are you using? Which ones would you recommend?

I have two little giant incubators the styrofoam type. One forced air and one still air. The forced air i use as the incubation set up, i like it from day 1 to internal pip because the fan keeps even heat. The still air which is 15 yrs old and still works as good as new i use as my hatcher because there is no fan to dry out the membrane on whatever im hatching, which rarely happens with the other but this takes out part of the worry. They both have hatched eggs in them and are both very good. I just use one for incubating and one for hatching now so that i can keep the forced air going without a lot of clean up and keep putting eggs in when i need/want to. Which leaves the only major clean up i have, with the still air. They both get sterlized again after season is over and then again when the next season comes.
These work great for me, some are against them but it really comes down to prefference and what your purpose of hatching is whether its pleasure or profit. Id love to have a cabinet type that holds 300 or so eggs but that still falls under pleasure and im not allowed to have one because id have every inch of the farm packed with poultry and fowl lol

 

[Starfire669]

I have two little giant incubators the styrofoam type. One forced air and one still air. The forced air i use as the incubation set up, i like it from day 1 to internal pip because the fan keeps even heat. The still air which is 15 yrs old and still works as good as new i use as my hatcher because there is no fan to dry out the membrane on whatever im hatching, which rarely happens with the other but this takes out part of the worry. They both have hatched eggs in them and are both very good. I just use one for incubating and one for hatching now so that i can keep the forced air going without a lot of clean up and keep putting eggs in when i need/want to. Which leaves the only major clean up i have, with the still air. They both get sterlized again after season is over and then again when the next season comes.
These work great for me, some are against them but it really comes down to prefference and what your purpose of hatching is whether its pleasure or profit. Id love to have a cabinet type that holds 300 or so eggs but that still falls under pleasure and im not allowed to have one because id have every inch of the farm packed with poultry and fowl lol

i probably would too. I am in love with my geese and chickens!

 

[8GeeseALaying]

Id have all types if i could. I still might. My next ones that i want are turkeys and peacocks. Someday i hope to raise emus as well. If i could find emu eggs now id get them.

 

[Starfire669]

Id have all types if i could. I still might. My next ones that i want are turkeys and peacocks. Someday i hope to raise emus as well. If i could find emu eggs now id get them.

Emus make awesome guard dogs. lol. Nothing would come near your property with those guys running around!

 

[8GeeseALaying]

Oh i know! I think they are neat too. I could also do alot with their eggs i make ornaments with the goose eggs and the emus eggs are good for carving. The peacocks i like looking at them and love to have their feathers. I like doing crafts so they would all have a purpose.

 

[Starfire669]

Oh i know! I think they are neat too. I could also do alot with their eggs i make ornaments with the goose eggs and the emus eggs are good for carving. The peacocks i like looking at them and love to have their feathers. I like doing crafts so they would all have a purpose.

Nice. I wish I had enough land for peacocks and emus, as well as horses, goats and other animals. Just not pigs. Lol

 

[servpolice]

Hahaha brazil at this age shes just male and female! But at the age moose is its hard to tell male and female for any breed