Goslings of 2014 Hatch-a-long

[servpolice]

Andrea do you have a photo of you're gosling up close to it's face?!

 

[Iain Utah]

Serv, I never get tired of seeing your buff African pictures. I wish I had 1 or 2 buff Africans to add to my group!

Andrea, the picture LB posted is what the injured magpie looks like. It is a member of the crow family. It seems to be doing well enough in the small kennel. It has a healthy appetite and doesn't seem stressed out. Only 2 weeks 2 days to go before we can release it.

It is only when you cross the Muscovy duck with the domestic duck that the offspring are usually sterile. Crossing domestic breeds merely result in mixed breed offspring.

 

[servpolice]

thank you Iain.
One day you and me will be swapping buff and white African gosling
i am only starting with Africans
in 3 years most likely i will start selling Africans if i have enough pairs which i am sure i will

 

[servpolice]

Andrea as i promised here are two ganders that will always keep this unique colour

https://www.backyardchickens.com/content/type/61/id/6531267/width/200

[IMG]https://www.backyardchickens.com/content/type/61/id/6531276/width/200/height/400/height/400[/IMG]

 

[servpolice]

This is one flock (African flock) 4 Africans a greylag and 3 AfricanXChinese

anderacroyle goslings when above 4 months love to be boss to others especially other goslings so when you introduce them to the others they want to be the boss too(like geese themselves) and they will be aggressive towards other goslings and will fight once their wings are fully grown.
But my point is they will now be raised with one another but stay separated and since they are not raised together :/
I was there when i put them with the main flock and straight away the first big gender they saw they charged but he was a lot bigger then them so they got scared
But when my other flock of goslings went over to talk to me,they saw the other gosling and then there was two little flocks shouting at eachother (i found it funny) and then the boss of both flocks started to fight and i was like Wt*! They fought like normal geese would! but less aggressive towards and i was breaking them up but then off they went again! So i let them fight it off (which is the best case if you are making sure everything is going good) And after 30 seconds the African gosling won and is now boss of his own flock and the others flock even tho he only hangs around with his own flock.
Until spring time :/

 

[servpolice]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/content/type/61/id/6531356/width/200/
This is flock two and they are older (people who did the hatchalong with me would know what cross and type they are)

 

[servpolice]

 

[servpolice]

Chip and 8

 

[livininbrazil]

Yes Toulouse is still bigger. Buff is small and petite.. I'd be happy with 3 girls and Sam. much better than 3 boys and Missy.

That´s for sure!!!

 

[livininbrazil]

Another tip: is that when ganders from different family's raised in the same year will fight a lot more with eachother i then with ganders that are older or younger
So it is always bad to have a lot of ganders that are born in the same year.
Unless you will have it under control.

I have kept 6 ganders from last year. Had only a few skirmishes, so nothing much happened here.