How about a Thread for Embdens?

[psue]

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[livininbrazil]

Keep in mind that these geese come from Europe...it´s cold there. The problem arises when we have old or sick geese, that in nature would have died.... They lose a lot of body heat when they get wet if they don´t or can´t keep their feathers oiled...like us!!!! Put you out in the rain with a water-proof, even on a wet winter´s day, you´re fine. Put you out in the rain with just a t-shirt.....hospital! Just give them a shelter they can get under...

 

[livininbrazil]

Maybe put a large doghouse outside for them? I am new to raising a goose-- but don't like the thought of them shivering cold..... Here is one I just added for Joey, and she is going inside it to get to her dry food now (I shoved it back a ways so she has to go inside it!) What do the experts on this site think?
Good luck~

Spot on, Kalsti (not claiming to be expert, by the way..)

 

[Miss Lydia]

I'm in Missouri and winter night temps all below freezing and often below 0*F no heat needed just a place without drafts and a thick layer of dry bedding to let them warm up. Be aware that heat lights can be a fire hazard. Wonderful friends on here lost their barn last winter and all of their animals. I would hate to see it happen to someone else.

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[servpolice]

Yea i put the 2 in the shed with a heat lamp and they are drying already but the thing with these two is unlike all the other geese who clean themselves and bite their feathers these 2 dont even clean themselves and yea i think they did lose their waterproof in their feathers

 

[Miss Lydia]

Yea i put the 2 in the shed with a heat lamp and they are drying already but the thing with these two is unlike all the other geese who clean themselves and bite their feathers these 2 dont even clean themselves and yea i think they did lose their waterproof in their feathers

Are they an older pair? I know my older ones 9yrs and counting even though they preen aren't nothing like the younger ones when it comes to bathing and preening their feathers.

They seem healthy other wise just don't have the same enthusiasm as the younger ones do.

 

[servpolice]

They are both 2 year old african ganders

 

[livininbrazil]

They are both 2 year old african ganders

Why not ask on the African thread if they feel the cold more than others?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Why not ask on the African thread if they feel the cold more than others?

Good idea.

 

[servpolice]

Why not ask on the African thread if they feel the cold more than others?

people rarly answer on that thread and ye all are here so i can hear from ye