Karessa's eggs hatched in her nest! With pics! **Update!**

[Soccer Mom]

That photo of Kasper is avatar worthy.

 

[sourland]

Great picture of Kasper on guard.

 

[noahsgeese]

They are adorable!!! How did you sex them??

 

[Friend2Fowl]

That is so neat, I can't wait till my goose decides to start setting! She is getting very grouchy around her nest, and isn't laying worth a darn. She laid an egg last Friday and not one since. I gave her dud eggs back to her yesterday, so now she has a dozen eggs in her nest. If she starts setting, I'll either give her some eggs from the incubator (africans bought from ebay), give her some goslings once they hatch, or give her some duck eggs, I haven't decided yet

 

[TennesseeTruly]

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With Sebastopols its said that you can usually tell by their coloring. Lighter coloring goslings are boys, darker coloring are girls. This is only for the first day as their colors start to change, and it is only for the Whites. If you have Saddlebacks or Colored Sebastopols you can't tell the same way.

Laurie

 

[TennesseeTruly]

Update!

Well Trouble is living up to his name already. He would NOT stay with his parents. He's more interested in exploring and this could mean trouble for him, big time. We have put him back with his parents a dozen times and a dozen times he has found a way to escape! Then while in the yard with his parents, with hubby and I not a dozen yards away, a red tailed hawk was flying overhead. His parents ran right over the top of him, leaving him dazed in the pen, upside down and thoroughly rattled. They ran into their house and left him there. Although the hawk was gone, poor Trouble was left struggling out in the pen on his own.

We decided to intervene. They have the second gosling which is also a little boy so we brought Trouble in the house. He didn't seem "right" for the first couple of hours. He was lethargic, kept shaking his head, wouldn't get up and I really feared that his parents injured him when they tried to get away from the hawk.

He was crying so I decided to put him in with some 2 and 3 day old goslings thinking they could comfort him. I went about our farm chores. It was now pouring down rain. I came in an hour later, Trouble was upside down in the brooder with 2 other goslings and a duckling, bleeding from his leg, his side, his wing, and his genitals. For whatever reason, the other goslings and duckling attacked him.

I cleaned him up, put him down my shirt and have carrying him around all day long. He seems to be okay other than the wounds, which I used Neosporin on, but the second I put him down he cries and cries. I can't believe they did this to him!

Karessa & Kasper aren't doing much better with the other baby. We've had to go out several times and pick him up and put him back in their house because he was on his back out in the rain. I fear we're going to have to take him as well.

It's pouring down rain right now and hubby shut the door to their house so that the three of them have to stay in there while its pouring like this. We don't want the baby to drown out in this rain.

So far their success as parents is a flop. I was hoping they would do better.

Laurie

 

[17roses]

I'm sorry Laurie, that stinks.

 

[TennesseeTruly]

Kasper & Karessa's second gosling died this morning. We're heart broken. He was born with some kind of disability, I'm not quite sure what it was. I was giving him niacin and polyvisol but nothing seemed to help. He kept falling over and couldn't right himself. We had made him a sling and I thought he was getting better as of last night. This morning when I woke up, he was almost gone. I put him into an incubator and hoped for the best. It just wasn't meant to be.

This is the gosling that we found dead in their house and I had brought him back once. Good-bye sweet Handy. We'll miss your sweet kisses and nips.

~Laurie~

 

[17roses]

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There is nothing I can say to make it easier so I will just say "I'm so sorry".

 

[Lolita]