Here we go again - I'm hatching more goslings!!

[CelticOaksFarm]

Littledear, our adults are from Holderreads, Pips&Peeps and CottageRose with the exception of the white smoothes as they are locally picked up with little background info. They have wonderful personalities though and good structure so they are in with curlies for breeding.

 

[littledear]

They are really nice birds. I joined the Sebbie forum and I looked at Cottage Rose's web site. I would like to eventially get good enough quality to show as a hobby, but I am in the learning stage at the moment.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Thank ou, I adore our geese. So much so we are expanding the goose flocks and limiting the chickens to two breeds only 1 color of each. You will enjoy the Sebbie forum, it isn't as busy as BYC, but the conversations are wonderful and shared info is priceless.

 

[pete55]

Whoa.............. hold that stagecoach folks as we're joining you

Not sure about these eggs as both females are yearlings but have just set the following eggs;

3 x Dewlap Toulouse (Greys)

3 x Super Africans (Buff)

Temp setting at 37.2C, humidity at 38% and hourly auto turning through 180 degrees with one hand turn daily to opposite side. All eggs were washed, marked in laying order and weighed.

Over here in the UK we're still waiting for many of the geese to really get going and still no sign of our first Sebastopol egg!


Pete

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

YaY Pete! Hope they prove to be fertile for you.

 

[Iain Utah]

Awesome Pete!! Now... would you puh-leaze answer my question (posted a few pages back now) about the different weights of my eggs and if the rate of evaporation will be the same for them? Also, whether the size of egg is an indication of the size of gosling? Thanks!!

 

[pete55]

Oh sorry about that but I've had a few messeges to answer and must have missed that. Surprisingly the eggs tend to lose weight at an even rate even though there may be weight differentials. The main criteria is that each must lose 16% of its fresh laid weight.

Also again YES bigger eggs tend to produce slightly bigger goslings but most catch up with their bigger siblings at about a month old. However yearling females do produce fewer and smaller eggs. In following years they usually lay more and a bigger egg. These larger eggs do tend to produce better birds, especially in the heavyweight breeds like Africans, Dewlaps and Embdens.

 

[Iain Utah]

So, my 219g toulouse egg is the "special" baby then.... lol

And thanks again for answering my questions!! I know you get bombarded with them from all directions. I do very much appreciate you taking the time to mentor me!!

 

[pete55]

No trouble and happy to help but yes, I tend to get lots of questions this time of the year. I limit the sites I visit but enjoy the Sebastopol Geese Lovers Forum run by CottageRose. I joined and at the time never owned a Sebastopol but its a really friendly site and well worth joining

Its also more informal with lots of family news etc and you get to know the members on a more personal level - I love it

Pete

 

[stillmecle]

OK I guess I will be joining this thread too. I recieved some eggs today fro a friend of Celtic's and she is going to chekc to make sure what I have. There are 5 eggs and I will be picking up a digital scale today and getting them weighed and ready to go in the incubator tonight. I will be receiving more eggs from Celtic next week but I don't think I should hold off putting these eggs in the incubator. Would hate to have them die off because I didn't want staggered hatches I already have a bunch of staggered hatches going on with chickens, and ducks so no big deal with geese I guess. I will let you now what I have for sure when Celtic finds out and let you know the weights too.