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

[CelticOaksFarm]

Hatty that fox would be a gunner around here too. Good lick with removing it from your property.

Double yolkers are more common than many think. Can be fertile, can grow if incubated too. However it usually ends in both embryos passing before hatch, or one passing before and the other trying to hatch and passing. Best to not set double yolkers for incubating.

 

[mohillbilly]

I have a pair of foxs on my place and their number will be up if they come anywhere near my birds tho my dogs keep them run off ....what




What I worry more about this year is coyotes as ive noticed a pack running here and when I see them while I have my rifle My worries will end.


Celtic I sent you your tracking number.

 

[Marty1876]

I'll go buy the wrap for the wing tomorrow. I've changed grazing procedures, to allow a mix of shorter manicured grasses and long overgrown grasses for the sebbies. I've noticed that when I let them out of their garden, they like to run and flap wings a lot out "in the open". Their garden isn't small, but they think it is when they are in it. LOL Hopefully wrapping, increased vegetation, and some exercises in the "big yard" will help prevent problems in the the others, and fix the one wing. Its only 3 feathers right now, and just started a few days ago, so lets hope I can nip it in the bud.

My sebbies are very interested in the baby Toulouse. I think of Iain when they are fussing over each other. The dewlaps like the sebbies, but they know how mama is.

 

[Marty1876]

BTW - Hey Iain, the duck in the pic with the geese in 40 day old "lucky" from the all night assisted hatch. She is as big as the geese! They said they got to 15 lbs, I guess they were not kidding! I wish I had others, but she is the only one of two batches of eggs to hatch. (and she was some trouble to save, too!) Shes awesome now.

When I was flipping through some of my dads old pics, I found the christmas pic with him at the tree, holding the white goose he got for chirstmas. He raised geese and was apparently in 4H (I found an old lapel pin) as a kid in the late 40s/early 50s. I guess I come by it honestly!!!

 

[Iain Utah]

Marty, angel wing is easy to fix up, especially since you caught it so early. I love watching my birds zoom around with their wings open, looking like kids pretending to be airplanes. I expect it is excellent exercise too at this critical stage of development.

Lucky is awesome!! I hope you can find another source for those special imported jumbo pekins. Is she extra calm too?

That's cool about finding the old pics! My mom has been telling me about her aunt having a small farm with geese and how I am supposedly SO much like her. I was a young child when she passed and have no independent memory of her, but I guess it runs in my family's genes too.

 

[psue]

not sure about Quail... they like to pile up and smoosh each other... maybe it's the learning curve but I find geese easier

 

[StevenW.]

not sure about Quail... they like to pile up and smoosh each other... maybe it's the learning curve but I find geese easier

I love my quail! They are starting to fly and they are very friendly,
I only have 9 so they are pretty easy to manage with having a few.

 

[aaajjss1]

Ok goosie egg is on day 25 when I candled last night I saw definite movement, so if I am reading Petes guide correctly, I turn the low side of the air cell up and wait for external pip then move to Hatcher and raise humidity. My question is do I really lower temp by 32 degrees? That sounds very low to me. I want this baby!

 

[psue]

Ok goosie egg is on day 25 when I candled last night I saw definite movement, so if I am reading Petes guide correctly, I turn the low side of the air cell up and wait for external pip then move to Hatcher and raise humidity. My question is do I really lower temp by 32 degrees? That sounds very low to me. I want this baby!

by 32 degrees!!! no no no ... by ! degee to 98F ........ I'll go back and read the guide to see if I missed anything... but in talking to pete it was drop one degree to 98

good luck!

 

[aaajjss1]

well in his guide which was published in backyard poultry magazine this month it says .5 degrees Celsius, which is 32 degrees Fahrenheit lol 1 degree to 98 makes more sense Im going to look at the one on here, air cell is growing right on target and egg lost 5% this past 7 days