Goslings of 2014 Hatch-a-long

[ChickDancer]

AS PROMISED...

Here are the baby turkey pics, along with some goose pics, some ducks, and the chicks that are living with the turkeys.

I just realized today that the black and yellow chick - who came from an EE hen - is developing FRIZZLE feathers! So I finally got my EE/Frizzle! You can see the wing feathers sticking out from the outward curl in some of these photos, too.




All four babies together. The black one is my Frizzle/EE, the brown one is just a large-fowl EE, and the two turkeys are white (both Royal Palm).



Turkey poult checking out the food.



The one on the left went for mealworms pretty easily. The one on the right just wanted ANTS!



They're so fruffy!




This one still has the egg tooth on his beak.



The ant-chaser sticks his head out of the pen to get one.



The other one comes to check it out, but doesn't find anything interesting.



Here's a good shot of the black chick's feathers starting to curl outward!



And another good photo of the outward curling wing feathers.



They sound, walk, and look like normal chicks, except that they have HUGE eyes, and tiny tags of skin on their forehead.



One of my female pekins wanders over and wonders what the hell these dark things are!




Miracle wants to check them out too!



The turkey poults pay them no attention at first. It's mealworms, ants, or grass right now. Other birds get attention after that!



"Do you realize you still have toilet paper sticking to your butt?"




Another shot with all four.



Hope is begging to get in and meet the babies!




Look at the cheek tufts on that little black one! I'm so happy it hatched and is developing frizzle feathering!




"Hey guys, that food was for us! Why did you push the pen out of the way and steal it?!?"




Miracle trying to be friends after eating all of their food...




Come on guys, let's just be friends!




Another good shot of the feathers poking out on the little black one. And a butt-shot of the brown one!



Oooh, what's this pink thing??



"You think I can fit this? Would pink look good on me?"




Such puffy cheeks, just makes you want to PINCH THEM!




"Time for my close up!"




"I'm ready for my close up too!"
But the camera wasn't ready for you!




Hey, what's this shiny, flashy thing over here?

 

[livininbrazil]

AS PROMISED...

Here are the baby turkey pics, along with some goose pics, some ducks, and the chicks that are living with the turkeys.

I just realized today that the black and yellow chick - who came from an EE hen - is developing FRIZZLE feathers! So I finally got my EE/Frizzle! You can see the wing feathers sticking out from the outward curl in some of these photos, too.





All four babies together. The black one is my Frizzle/EE, the brown one is just a large-fowl EE, and the two turkeys are white (both Royal Palm).



Turkey poult checking out the food.



The one on the left went for mealworms pretty easily. The one on the right just wanted ANTS!



They're so fruffy!




This one still has the egg tooth on his beak.



The ant-chaser sticks his head out of the pen to get one.



The other one comes to check it out, but doesn't find anything interesting.



Here's a good shot of the black chick's feathers starting to curl outward!



And another good photo of the outward curling wing feathers.



They sound, walk, and look like normal chicks, except that they have HUGE eyes, and tiny tags of skin on their forehead.



One of my female pekins wanders over and wonders what the hell these dark things are!




Miracle wants to check them out too!



The turkey poults pay them no attention at first. It's mealworms, ants, or grass right now. Other birds get attention after that!



"Do you realize you still have toilet paper sticking to your butt?"




Another shot with all four.



Hope is begging to get in and meet the babies!




Look at the cheek tufts on that little black one! I'm so happy it hatched and is developing frizzle feathering!




"Hey guys, that food was for us! Why did you push the pen out of the way and steal it?!?"




Miracle trying to be friends after eating all of their food...




Come on guys, let's just be friends!




Another good shot of the feathers poking out on the little black one. And a butt-shot of the brown one!



Oooh, what's this pink thing??



"You think I can fit this? Would pink look good on me?"




Such puffy cheeks, just makes you want to PINCH THEM!




"Time for my close up!"




"I'm ready for my close up too!"
But the camera wasn't ready for you!




Hey, what's this shiny, flashy thing over here?

Smashing photos, how pleased you must be. congrats. I sold my last turkey after she started to attack a broody duck and make her caruncle bleed. the poults are just lovely, though. Have fun with them. They´re just so funny the things they get up to.

 

[ChickDancer]

Smashing photos, how pleased you must be. congrats. I sold my last turkey after she started to attack a broody duck and make her caruncle bleed. the poults are just lovely, though. Have fun with them. They´re just so funny the things they get up to.

By next spring, every species/breed will have it's own pen, so I won't have to worry about those issues. It's just a matter of buying the PVC pipes to frame them with now - I have almost all of the other pieces and parts already. So for roughly $45 every other paycheck, I'll have another pen built.

 

[blueraven]

OK! Threw a shovel of coal on the laptop and away we go!

Here's Moose cuddled up to my feet last night after FINALLY being full. He'd only eaten 2 whole lettuce, some peas and half a bowl of crumb!

Like any goose, Moose loves the water and goes nuts swimming around when he first goes in...

Then approx. 3.5 minutes later he taps on the side to let me know he's ready to get out!

Moose hates being towel dried but LOVES being blow dried and will stand up tall and flap his wings.

hello i named my goose MOOSE to eheh he is two years old now hes a canada goose

 

[Anna6]

Our Toulouse hatched 8 out of 9 eggs. Hubby took the goslings and put them in the garage. We read on here some where they will else get mean. DS is taking care of them and we are used to hatching chicks and some ducks in incubators. Now I want to take the last egg as it is a dud obviously and I am scared it will break and stink. I feel bad for the parents or will they be OK? Should I put some chicks that are fully feathered in with them? They already have a young rooster, that they seem fine with, in with them.

 

[blueraven]

well my first broody goose didn't hatch any eggs this year she got lazy the last few days and kept getting off and it was almost time for her to sit for lockdown if geese do that.

but my second female goose she started to lay again in late april and i collected 7 eggs after a sold i tried in the incubator but that didn't work. so i gave her 7 and she went broody right away. that was the end of april i think and i just took one of the eggs today when she was out and candled them and the air cell was huge i think any day now and i went in their tonight and was giving her some food and put one egg to my ear and even though the male was hissing at me and biting my hand and the others were talking i think i heard something tapping so i put it back and closed her door as i keep her in a dog kennel with a latch bar door. she loves it and works perfectly keeping others from bothering her at night. as they all sleep together in the same shack i do have boards that i line around keeping my aggressive canada goose away. my canada goose was fine until i brought home some ducklings from the feed mill. He adopted them instantly from when he first heard them peeping in the box. After that he is very aggressive to pretty much everything my other geese the ducks. i have tried separating him from the ducklings now that they are big enough but he still doesn't give up. i just want him to go back to normal if he does anyway. any tips or suggestions

and fingers crossed my female hatches her eggs she broke one so far last week she has left

 

[livininbrazil]

Our Toulouse hatched 8 out of 9 eggs. Hubby took the goslings and put them in the garage. We read on here some where they will else get mean. DS is taking care of them and we are used to hatching chicks and some ducks in incubators. Now I want to take the last egg as it is a dud obviously and I am scared it will break and stink. I feel bad for the parents or will they be OK? Should I put some chicks that are fully feathered in with them? They already have a young rooster, that they seem fine with, in with them.

It all depends on the parent birds if they´re reasonably tame. If the parents are terrified of ytou, they´ll pass this on to the goslings. I leave my goslings with the parents, others don´t. I feel sorry for the geeese to lose their babies, they so love being parents. For tame babies, I just keep them ina smallish pen, maybe 10 yards sq, with the parents, and go in with them, feed them, pick them up, etc, so they see you as part of the flock. that´s what I do, and I can touch them, etc, when they´re adult. They´re not mean, none of them. (The meanness often comes from an overly-familiar gander that´s been imprinted.) Choice is yours, this is just what I do.
Beatiful geese btw

 

[Anna6]

We also feel sorry for the parent geese. They are not happy with us. We bought them from some one who loves geese but they were in breeding season already. The gander "bites" now the goose sits. I can't blame him since we messed with his woman and eggs/chicks.

From what you are telling us we will keep the babies separate. I would like to give the parents something to keep happy but I am not sure what.

 

[ChickDancer]

We also feel sorry for the parent geese. They are not happy with us. We bought them from some one who loves geese but they were in breeding season already. The gander "bites" now the goose sits. I can't blame him since we messed with his woman and eggs/chicks.

From what you are telling us we will keep the babies separate. I would like to give the parents something to keep happy but I am not sure what.

How about letting them raise just one of the goslings?

 

[Anna6]

We thought about it but what would we do with the one not so nice gosling? I guess we also assumed the geese would raise their own young but after reading this can contribute to them being mean we changed our mind. Also who would we sell them to if it is hard to handle them. The only people interested are the ones who want goslings that are imprinted on people.