Goslings of 2014 Hatch-a-long

[chickengirl987]

Baby pics from today, very hard to get pics since they want to stay right under me.

What kinds?

 

[RURU]

Miss Lydia the gosling are adorable!

Yes, you are mama and they will stay with you. Almost trip you running after you!

 

[livininbrazil]

Baby pics from today, very hard to get pics since they want to stay right under me.

I love that little Buff´s 'eyebrow', would make a good Brahma chicken! I s the toulouse production, or the Dewlap? I imagine the buff is American Buff like Flockman has?

 

[Starfire669]

Well, that´s the trade-off.  Pop them straight under Missy when they arrive, and they view her as mom.  You keep them for a bit, they view you as mom.  well,, you know that anyway.  Just keep taking them out there with the adults, they´ll get used to them.  The younger, the better.
 I had some tinies that hatched out indoors and it took a few days for the babies to accept their new moms, but then the weather was good, and I could just leave them out there in the pen with the goose, (no real threat of snakes to worry about) they soon learned, and the third evening I discovered they´d got themselves all tucked up in her feathers.  Transition complete.  

I love the mental pic I got of the babies in moms feathers. Can't wait to have my ladies hatch some babies. Though next year I won't allow them too, because they are too young to know what to do, and I will get some eggs and try incubating. (i have to be careful how much i enlarge my flock nest year, then rearrange my geese into their 2 permanent flocks. Hopefully a few of my year old ladies will be interested in adopting.

The plan is 1 white African gander and his ladies, and 1 Chinese gander and his ladies. Mixing and matching from the ones I have now, with eggs purchased from 8 and Utah should give me good un-related bloodlines, and I can sell the extras from the hatch. I don't want to waste new blood in my area, it's too precious and rare as everyone gets their geese from Ideal Hatchery through feed stores ( like I did, I brought goslings from 2 different feed stores and both order from Ideal, my local TSC does also though I didn't purchase from them). I am also really excited to see how real white Africans, with delwlaps do here. No African I have seen here has a decent dewlap, too much cross breeding with chinese.

I am looking at incubators, I narrowed it down to a Havo Bator and a Janoel. Any tips advice? I like a plastic housing of the Janoel because my cats love styrofoam for nail sharpening, but the Havo Bator is proven to work well, and has egg turners. I also though the Janoel would make an excellent hatcher, because of its size, the clear plastic housing, and how sturdy it is.

 

[Miss Lydia]

What kinds?

Amercian Buff is the light and Toulouse the other and yes Production. Missy is so much smaller than the Production Toulouse parents of my lil one. She is just a small size goose. And the color is slowly coming back on her legs and feet. I love these little things.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Miss Lydia the gosling are adorable!

Yes, you are mama and they will stay with you. Almost tri you running after you!

RURU I thought it was enjoyable having our duckling inside when he was a wee one, well having these 2 gozzies in here well it's so awesome and snuggly they love affection. I hope even when they go out for good they will still like us. Their only a day apart but the Toulouse is bigger than the buff.

 

[livininbrazil]

Amercian Buff is the light and Toulouse the other and yes Production. Missy is so much smaller than the Production Toulouse parents of my lil one. She is just a small size goose. And the color is slowly coming back on her legs and feet. I love these little things.

I wonder if the buff is a female, being smaller. And if the parents of the toulouse are bigger than Missy, then sounds like Missy could end up being the smallest of them all!

 

[Miss Lydia]

I wonder if the buff is a female, being smaller. And if the parents of the toulouse are bigger than Missy, then sounds like Missy could end up being the smallest of them all!

Most Production Toulouse I have seen in pics and person are larger than Missy, so she probably will end up smaller than all of them, livin I'm hoping for 2 girls but will be very happy with one if that's the way it turns out, just hope my 1/2 acre will be big enough for them all, that's all we have fenced in and too steep to fence more. Missy will probably get the nickname midget soon.

 

[livininbrazil]

Most Production Toulouse I have seen in pics and person are larger than Missy, so she probably will end up smaller than all of them, livin I'm hoping for 2 girls but will be very happy with one if that's the way it turns out, just hope my 1/2 acre will be big enough for them all, that's all we have fenced in and too steep to fence more. Missy will probably get the nickname midget soon.

Do you know if she´s all toulouse? None of geese is big, most of them being Pilgrim-type. And the cross-breeds are small, too, compared to others.
I´m sure 1/2 acre will be fine for the four of them, it´s the next generations that you´ll want to keep that will make it a bit tight!

Hoping you have two girls too. Not impossible, my 3 girls were from a hatch of 5 girls! One of my geese hatched out 4, all girls.
Another hatched 7, 3 were boys, and another hatched 6, 4 were boys, but I won´t mention those!

 

[Iain Utah]

I've seen a wide variety of sizing in production toulouse, so yours could easily be all purebred (Missy and babies). Your goslings look just like the pair that Beignet hatched. The buff female is a lot smaller than the grey boy, but both are production Toulouse. I personally think you have a male/female pair. Enjoy your time with them when they are so little as they grow up way too fast!