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

[mohillbilly]

congrats!!

 

[Iain Utah]

Beautiful baby, vicki!! Congrats!!!!!!!

 

[newduckie]

Congrats.. That is a beauty!!

 

[Marty1876]

I am a the proud Mommie of my first Sebastopol!!!

Yay! Aw, and she very cute too!

I got sebs from Celtic today, and also got eggs in from Lisa (3 seb eggs), right after I put myself on the list, we decided to ship my goslings this spring. When it rains, it pours.

The new babies ahd a wonderful day, and so did we. They are delightful, and the biggest girl is super brave. We took turns sitting on a step holding one baby at a time, and the girls fed them grass, and we petted and babied them.

The names for the 2 future whites (we hope) are silver and diamond (girls named them-silver is the boy). My two are Iris and Dandelion.

 

[psue]

I am a the proud Mommie of my first Sebastopol!!!

Yay! Aw, and she very cute too!

I got sebs from Celtic today, and also got eggs in from Lisa (3 seb eggs), right after I put myself on the list, we decided to ship my goslings this spring. When it rains, it pours.

The new babies ahd a wonderful day, and so did we. They are delightful, and the biggest girl is super brave. We took turns sitting on a step holding one baby at a time, and the girls fed them grass, and we petted and babied them.

The names for the 2 future whites (we hope) are silver and diamond (girls named them-silver is the boy). My two are Iris and Dandelion.

cute names, glad you had fun today

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Congrats Vicky!

Marty glad you had a fun day with them all. Diamond is a true blue white, Silver should adult feather white, he may be like his mother though and retain a spot or two somewhere on his body. Hope you are feeling better.


Iain.... Back to our grey/buff discussion.

Utility Toulouse were created solely for meat purposes, so setting up a breeding program for those you have on the off chance hope you have two that carry buff wouldn't be my top priority. They really are meant for the table. For you to get a visual buff from them you need two both with the buff gene to mate to potentially toss a buff baby.

Your Dewlap Toulouse on the other hand, are well worth selecting breeding stock from those you hatch, and working with them. Even if it's a mixed grey/buff group. Year one you would produce grey goslings (unless you have a seperate all buff flock), but year two you would have the ability to breed back particular off spring for a few buffs to be produced. Now if you get plenty of buffs then you will have both colors, can run seperate yards and won't need to worry about splits and % of genetics.


Carole emailed yesterday, she will be shipping a new girl on Monday & since she can't travel alone we bought another girl to ship with her. So fingers crossed these two have an uneventful trip.

Our newest and last box of babies arrived, two buff and two possible splash.

We are first on a waiting list for two more goslings from the breeder who hatched Peaches. She has amazing greys, and this is the last year she plans to breed a particular pair who throw wonderful splashes too. So looking forward to their eggs hatching and getting a couple of the goslings.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Ok, picture time.

Group shots of all of the keepers (youngest keeprs I should say) to grow out until fall.

And for Iain......Giant Buff Dewlap Toulouse babies

We have two ganders a goose there, by next Wednesday we will have a 2/3 ratio. Both of the eggs we have left are doing well so hoping for 1 and will be ecstatic if we get both to hatch.

 

[Iain Utah]

Celtic, love the pics!!!! The box of sebbies is too cute!! Of course, I think the middle buff is the most precious baby of all! I'm glad you were able to work things out with Carole and are getting more babies next week.

they arrive safely!!!!!!!

I appreciate the input on what birds to keep for breeding. It makes sense to integrate the utility toulouse into community flock on pasture, although I do worry that they may be too sensitive and get bullied by the others. Overall, my toulouse are less noisy, less mouthy, and quite docile. I want to try putting Erin Toulouse with rest of toulouse babies. My older toulouse are now 5 weeks and my Erin toulouse is 3 weeks. Is there a chance they would hurt Erin toulouse if I put him outside with them??

As for the dewlaps, I plan to wait until next week before making a purchase decision for more buff goslings. I want to see how many of the greys hatch as well as see if my only buff egg from last set keeps developing (air cell has a bad droop halfway down side). It's good to know there is still value crossing Barley with a grey in the event I do not get more buffs.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

I would put the 5's with the 3 and watch how they are. Normally you can mix ages as they become older with no issue. We have a goose who is younger but runs with the two older Sebbie goslings, Toulouse goslings and the African gosling. She does well with them.

Putting the utilities out on the pasture should be fine, I would do the through the fence introduction again like you did before. They are the same age let them try to be loose and watch how it goes. The adult ganders sound very willing and able to take them in so far. The coop you use over there, can it be made so they can access it directly? All of the geese here have direct shelter access, we feed in the shelters and they are quick to catch on about going "to bed" at night. Even the adults who were not raised here adapt quickly. Just a thought for you for predator protection and winter shelter too.

Barley is your buff dewlap right? (trying to keep the names straight)

 

[vickifiveoh]

Thanks Everybody!!! I can't wait to get home so I can hold it!!

I do have one more question. What do I do about the other 2 eggs that haven't hatched ? Do I give them a little more time since Hatch Day was just yesterday? I have read where some people have had it take 32 days for a egg to hatch.