Is there a way to tell if it's a boy or girl. My guess it's a boy.Congrats! Geese are the sweetest babies and they're totally addicting, just warning youI hope you're able to get him a friend from the person who gave you the egg like we were talking about in the other thread.
I thought I heard one time, if the beak and feet are darker meaning redder, it's a boy and if it's lighter like yellowish it's a girl? I take it that theroy isn't true??? he would fall under the darker beak if it is...
Wow, that's a lot of malpos! I would need a Valium for that a hatch like that!
When I first started reading your post I thought you hatched a very large call duck that was a "goose". Not an actual goose!! LOL. I would love to try hatching geese. Sounds amazing but very scary after reading your post. So happy he is doing good! Great job!!!!I HAD A BIG BABY. OMG, it's a GOOSE, YES, I had to help and it was a scary ride. He was half out of his shell and half in, I could see he still needed to shrink down his navel. HOURS AND HOURS went by, the naval wasn't shrinking, I looked inside the shell, Now keep in mind, he's moving his feet, kicking at the shell etc. etc. Well when I looked inside, I COULD see what the problem was. SO I assisted. he had a BLOB of Gooy stuff wrapped around the tip of his navel area and around his main viens. when he tried to escape from his shell, the blob of gooy stuff, was pulling on his navel area keeping him from shrinking up. It was like a tug of war going on in the shell. So I got a wet qtip and started to rub the gooy stuff off his navel area but WHAT HAPPENS NEXT, I was NOT planning. YES, the main vein BROKE. AHHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOO,. I quickly grabbed a paper towel and IMMEDIATELY applied pressure. In my past, I have lost about TWO babies, a chick and a duck because of blood loss. the Chick was ANTSY and Stormed out of his shell to early, The duck was my fault because I wasn't aware at that time, you DON"T pull them out. ( that was 7 or 6 years ago) SO we got the blood to stop and the little guy is resting now. I plan on staying up all NIGHT to make sure he pulls through. this is my FIRST GOOSE, he's sooo cute. IT'S amazing and maybe it's just me because I'm used to 1 to 2 pound ducks and chickens but this guy is HUGE.. ahahahhaha. When I put him in my hand, he not only covers my hand but also my wrist.. I can hardly get a call duck to cover my fingers let a lone my entire hand.
Look at that big baby!!Never had such a scary ride, I thought for sure, I had Killed my first GOOSE, OMG.... Ive smoked about 4 cigarrettes so far. LOLHere's my little Mutt. LOL
Well fell asleep, she was working on getting around and drinking, and somebody unplugged the incubator with her in it, luckily wasn't to long got her warmed up and now with the other 3 picking on them so named her esperanza, poor little girl had a rough start but she's a fighter
Oh no! That's terrible. There was a time when I would have said that no one in my house would dream of going within 10 feet of my incubators but my son and his friend decided to open the incubator, during HATCH, and play with the chicks and hatching eggs. So it does happen, you're not the only one. Glad to hear she's doing good. Against all odds, she is a fighter!Well fell asleep, she was working on getting around and drinking, and somebody unplugged the incubator with her in it, luckily wasn't to long got her warmed up and now with the other 3 picking on them so named her esperanza, poor little girl had a rough start but she's a fighter
