How about a Thread for Embdens?

[brandilly]

This is my feathered family. Petunia is the goose. The little mallard is Kevin (she's a girl and named after the birf in the Pixar movie 'Up', the black duck is Smith (no idea what kind of duck she is; her feathers have a blue and green sheen to them in the sun, a cayuga maybe?), darker caramel colored duck is Nibbles and the lighter buff/caramel colored duck is the rescued orphan, Daisy. No idea what kind of ducks these are either. Buff Orpingtons? Petunia and Daisy were sexed girls. The original 3 were straight run... the mallard is obviously a girl and I don't see the curled tail feathers that usually indicate males on Smith or Nibbles so I am operating under the notion they are female as well. I won't be certain until I see an actual egg produced! Sorry for the rambling but I love that there is a place to share my babies with people I know will appreciate my little family! My human family gets tired of hearing about their antics, my friends all think I've lost my mind and my dogs are totally ambivilent! Thanks for letting me share!!!

 

[Miss Lydia]

This is my feathered family. Petunia is the goose. The little mallard is Kevin (she's a girl and named after the birf in the Pixar movie 'Up', the black duck is Smith (no idea what kind of duck she is; her feathers have a blue and green sheen to them in the sun, a cayuga maybe?), darker caramel colored duck is Nibbles and the lighter buff/caramel colored duck is the rescued orphan, Daisy. No idea what kind of ducks these are either. Buff Orpingtons? Petunia and Daisy were sexed girls. The original 3 were straight run... the mallard is obviously a girl and I don't see the curled tail feathers that usually indicate males on Smith or Nibbles so I am operating under the notion they are female as well. I won't be certain until I see an actual egg produced! Sorry for the rambling but I love that there is a place to share my babies with people I know will appreciate my little family! My human family gets tired of hearing about their antics, my friends all think I've lost my mind and my dogs are totally ambivilent! Thanks for letting me share!!!

That's a beautiful feathered family. and I love the names. as far as Petunias neck her neck feathers will look kind of well like what your seeing, my Embden gander and my Toulouse gooses neck feathers look like that like they have waves in them. I'll get pics..so most likely what your seeing is her "normal" big girl feathers coming in. Where did you rescue Daisy from? and your going to have to come to the duck thread and post pics okay?

 

[ducklover87]

My yr old goose hisses at me it's just what geese do. My gander doesn't but he was hatched and raised here but my goose I got at 4 months old, she also hisses at the dogs. and will actually go after them if given a chance. So when they are all together, I stand ready to intervene I either get between them or carry my mop handle and place it between them and say no. I'm not sure you can teach them not to hiss, just be ready in case they want to bite.

Thanks for the advice miss Lydia. Hopefully they will learn to except the new dog.

 

[ducklover87]

This is my feathered family. Petunia is the goose. The little mallard is Kevin (she's a girl and named after the birf in the Pixar movie 'Up', the black duck is Smith (no idea what kind of duck she is; her feathers have a blue and green sheen to them in the sun, a cayuga maybe?), darker caramel colored duck is Nibbles and the lighter buff/caramel colored duck is the rescued orphan, Daisy. No idea what kind of ducks these are either. Buff Orpingtons? Petunia and Daisy were sexed girls. The original 3 were straight run... the mallard is obviously a girl and I don't see the curled tail feathers that usually indicate males on Smith or Nibbles so I am operating under the notion they are female as well. I won't be certain until I see an actual egg produced! Sorry for the rambling but I love that there is a place to share my babies with people I know will appreciate my little family! My human family gets tired of hearing about their antics, my friends all think I've lost my mind and my dogs are totally ambivilent! Thanks for letting me share!!!

The black one looks like a Cayuga, the darker brown one looks like a buff, and the one in the front looks just like my fawn and white runner.

 

[brandilly]

The black one looks like a Cayuga, the darker brown one looks like a buff, and the one in the front looks just like my fawn and white runner.

Thanks for the info on what I might have. I guess Daisy could be a runner, she does stand up a little straighter than the others but I really didn't think, after looking at pics of other runner ducks in the past, that she really had the exact build. I will definitely be doing some more research!

 

[brandilly]

That's a beautiful feathered family. and I love the names. as far as Petunias neck her neck feathers will look kind of well like what your seeing, my Embden gander and my Toulouse gooses neck feathers look like that like they have waves in them. I'll get pics..so most likely what your seeing is her "normal" big girl feathers coming in. Where did you rescue Daisy from? and your going to have to come to the duck thread and post pics okay?

It's good to know that Petunia's neck feathers are likely normal! After looking at other Embden geese on here, I can see that a lot of them look like this! Thanks for the reassurance, Miss Lydia!

Here's Daisy's story... I originally started out getting chickens, which my husband has been talking about for a couple of years. We moved and had room finally. So during final instructions as to what I was supposed to be getting at my local Wilco, and after some discussion, we decided that we were going to get 2 ducks and 2 chickens and raise them together. Well, we got there and the ducks were way more entertaining than the chicks so we settled on just 3 baby ducks, who would be Nibbles, Smith and Kevin. So about 5 weeks later, we are at Western World (another feed store across town) picking up some food and shavings and they had a trough with some baby ducks left. I am so smitten with my babies (who had grown substantially) at home that I bent down and stick my hand in to give them some affection and this little ducky runs across and gets up under my hand and starts rubbing and peeping and looking at me sideways (as they do when they spy something up in the sky). Turns out someone had bought her and another duck and took them home for about a week, but they lost one baby to an owl. After a few more days of a crying, non-eating baby, they gave up and brought it back. Why didn't they just buy a new baby, I asked? Because the children had been traumatized and didn't want another one. So here's this pitiful little totally socialized duckling looking for human love! Yep, you guessed it, I'm a sucker. More to the point, my husband who witnessed the initial meeting and heard the story just looked and me, shook his head and said "Do it" and Daisy rode home on my shoulder peeping merrily the whole way! Sounds like a fairy tale, no? NO! My heretofore funny, loving original flock BULLIED this new baby! Mercilessly! So now I have a little pitiful crying baby duck alone AGAIN because I have to separate them. 2 days pass, and while she is eating, she cries all night and sleeps on my feet or follows me around all day, still having to be separated from The Bullies. My husband finally says, "Get rid of the original 3 and buy another friend for Daisy. Take Daisy back. DO SOMETHING!!!" So I bought a goose! That's something, right?! I went to buy another baby duck but all the others were already huge, way bigger than Daisy. The little goose was the only one close in size. And when I picked her up, she didn't panic. Just layed down across my arm with one leg stretched out and chilled! Again, Sucker! The Bullies still bullied the 2 babies, but they had eachother for company and after Daisy got close to the same size and Petunia TOWERED over everyone else, we all get along fine! And that is the LOOOOONG saga of why all my friends think I have lost my mind!

As a side note, I did quite a bit of research on chickens and ducks but never geese. She was really just a saving grace hail mary pass I made to help Daisy... had I known how big a goose gets (really, I HAD seen them at my local lake and of course on tv specials, etc, but I guess I never really thought about it) I might not have gotten her. I am SO glad I did! She is ONE BIG GOOSE!

This is Daisy and Petunia dabblin in a puddle out front, shortly after I got them.

 

[RURU]

Thanks for the info on what I might have. I guess Daisy could be a runner, she does stand up a little straighter than the others but I really didn't think, after looking at pics of other runner ducks in the past, that she really had the exact build. I will definitely be doing some more research!

Daisy is a runner but more of a maybe mix runner. She is a fawn and white. There are runners that do not stand up like show quality ones. I have had both at one time or the other. I sold all my ducks.

 

[brandilly]

[COLOR=0000CD]Daisy is a runner but more of a maybe mix runner. She is a fawn and white. There are runners that do not stand up like show quality ones. I have had both at one time or the other. I sold all my ducks.[/COLOR]

Oh thank you, Ruru! They all bring me so much joy and I love knowing as much as possible about them!!!

 

[brandilly]

Daisy and Petunia as littles.

A little cuddle for Petunia.

Muddy goose.

"There's bound to be something in this hole! There is! MUD!!!"

 

[Miss Lydia]

Daisy and Petunia as littles.


A little cuddle for Petunia.


Muddy goose.


"There's bound to be something in this hole! There is! MUD!!!"

What an awesome story and the pics just are too cute I love the one with the head in the hole but I love them all. People who laugh at us because of our love for these animals Just don't know what they are missing. Thank you for sharing. and please stick around.