Goslings of 2014 Hatch-a-long

[ChickDancer]

I keep my guns in either a gun safe for the shotgun or a gun lockbox for my 9mm because of my boys. Something that could be worth looking into. If not, that fox has eaten chicken could you bait the trap with chicken blood? Like from your families dinner? May get it in that way.

The extra-large live trap we use now has always been baited with chicken. Everytime we lose one, we put the carcass in there. Whether it's a chick that died of a bad Cocci infection, or a rooster that died from injuries after fighting another roo, their bodies go in the bait basket of that trap. The best ones to find, are bodies leftover from a predator attack. The predator already has their scent on it, and we just toss it into the trap. So it definitely has the scent of chicken blood, chicken meat, and even chicken feathers in the trap.

And that's probably what I'll be using once I get the spring trap here, too. We've got some old (past sell-by-date) chicken thighs in the freezer that we will toss in/near the trap to catch him.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Ya'll Missy's egg looks like this

according to Metzers this is day 24 she has not be sitting full time but 2 weeks this past Monday how can this be?

still seeing movement in there.

 

[ChickDancer]

Ya'll Missy's egg looks like this

according to Metzers this is day 24 she has not be sitting full time but 2 weeks this past Monday how can this be?

still seeing movement in there.

It couldn't have gotten a head start when she was pretending to be broody prior to actually committing to it.

I've had all sorts of eggs go cold in a nest box, sit in an incubator that went out with the power, incubators that were left open for hours on end, incubators that were left open overnight, etc. But the chicks still hatch. They hatch a day late for every day they didn't have the proper temperature, but they still hatched. Remember Miracle, Hope, and Wonder hatched after I accidentally left them cooling for 6 hours. So if Missy started to sit on them long enough to bring them up to 99 degrees or so, then they probably began to develop before she actually began to sit full-time.

 

[Miss Lydia]

It couldn't have gotten a head start when she was pretending to be broody prior to actually committing to it.

I've had all sorts of eggs go cold in a nest box, sit in an incubator that went out with the power, incubators that were left open for hours on end, incubators that were left open overnight, etc. But the chicks still hatch. They hatch a day late for every day they didn't have the proper temperature, but they still hatched. Remember Miracle, Hope, and Wonder hatched after I accidentally left them cooling for 6 hours. So if Missy started to sit on them long enough to bring them up to 99 degrees or so, then they probably began to develop before she actually began to sit full-time.

That's the only thing I can think of she was going in an sitting sometime hours at a time. Before she committed full time. Now since she will be with her parents thinking positively here[her] will i still need to give brewers yeast, I've never had to do it with my Scovy duckling when they have been with their mama's. I didn't with Sam either but i didn't even know about niacin dif and other things 7yrs ago.

 

[livininbrazil]

Ya'll Missy's egg looks like this

according to Metzers this is day 24 she has not be sitting full time but 2 weeks this past Monday how can this be?

still seeing movement in there.

What do you reckon? Is this chart more helpful? I see what you mean about the day 24.

 

[livininbrazil]

That's the only thing I can think of she was going in an sitting sometime hours at a time. Before she committed full time. Now since she will be with her parents thinking positively here[her] will i still need to give brewers yeast, I've never had to do it with my Scovy duckling when they have been with their mama's. I didn't with Sam either but i didn't even know about niacin dif and other things 7yrs ago.

I raised goslings, no troubles, didn´t know anything about niacin deficiency, until last year. Just keep an eye. If it looks like it´s getting tired/weak, give it some.

 

[Miss Lydia]

What do you reckon? Is this chart more helpful? I see what you mean about the day 24.

What do you reckon? Is this chart more helpful? I see what you mean about the day 24.

according to that one livin it looks more like day 26 but I am still amazed it could be that far along. I have that chart in my bookmarks just wanted to see what Metzers had. Maybe between day 24-26. Maybe I should candle and take a pic just not sure how to do that one yet. I'd need 3 hands.

 

[livininbrazil]

according to that one livin it looks more like day 26 but I am still amazed it could be that far along. I have that chart in my bookmarks just wanted to see what Metzers had. Maybe between day 24-26. Maybe I should candle and take a pic just not sure how to do that one yet. I'd need 3 hands.

I´m surprised with all the messing about, that she has a live gosling at all! And so advanced, too! In the chart I posted, I reckon it looks like day 24, which ties in with the Metzer´s one. Not long to go, at least!

 

[Miss Lydia]

I´m surprised with all the messing about, that she has a live gosling at all! And so advanced, too! In the chart I posted, I reckon it looks like day 24, which ties in with the Metzer´s one. Not long to go, at least!

She's stuck like glue too, I had to pick her up and put her outside so she would eat. That part worries me she hasn't been eating much at all, when you have gosling with their parents what do you use for water? all my flock uses gallon buckets and i have plastic containers with lid with a hole cut in for babies but I can guarantee you everyone is going to use the container and muck it up till it's mud. I'll just have to check it often to make sure there's water in it. I'm a nervous wreck you'd think nothing ever hatched here.

 

[Pyxis]

Hey guys, just kind of a PSA here. Be careful who you buy eggs from. I just had mycoplasma show up in my flock. It decimated my marans flock and I have to start all over. I had to cull birds who were in that coop that didn't show symptoms yet which was hard. I'm posting this here because it came in from some sebbie eggs I bought and hatched. I run a closed flock besides hatching eggs so I wasn't watching hard for the signs and I should have been. I hatched one gosling out of six eggs and you guys were my support system for that since it was my first time so I really want to pay you all back and give you a warning. The gosling, at about a month old, started making these hacking sounds that I took to be her needing a drink after eating. She was living with three other perfectly healthy goslings at the time, and chicks, which is how the infection spread. The chicks didn't show symptoms until I moved them out into the little grow out pen I have...right next to my marans coop. Well, the chicks and the marans all came down with mycoplasma and I was really confused - until I thought about my gosling. She has now passed the infection to the other three goslings I have and I am trying to treat them with denagard, which, I am told, if you treat with constantly for six months can actually eradicate the bacteria instead of just making the birds into carriers. If this doesn't turn out to be the case, I am going to have to cull my goslings, and it will be heartbreaking. They all have nasal discharge now, so I know it came from the one gosling who was a lone hatch and showed the symptoms first.

I should have been aware that low fertility was a sign because the disease destroys phallic tissue in ganders - out of six eggs, only two developed. I should have been even more aware when the other egg went all the way to hatch, internally pipped, and then was too sick to make it and had a nasty infection inside the shell and in the yolk. I should have paid closer attention to Cookie's coughing, but since I wasn't worrying, I paid it no mind. So I just wanted to warn you all to be careful.