Let's have a gosling hatchalong!

[Iain Utah]

What a bummer about losing all of the eggs!

I'm glad you at least have a few babies!

 

[kuntrygirl]

Does any dry hatch their goose eggs or not mist them?

Have never misted them

Great. I wondered about that because my chickens are hatching goose eggs and I am not misting them.

 

[kuntrygirl]

RiverGoddess, I am speechless looking at your pics. Those babies are absolutely beautiful!! OMG !!!!!!!!! I am in heaven looking at those pics. I love them!

 

[kuntrygirl]

WARNING UPDATE THE INCUKIT FROM INCUBATOR WAREHOUSE FRYED THIS MORNING AND COOKED OVER 100 GOOSE EGGS INCLUDING BUFF DEWLAP TOULOUSE, SEBBIES AND EMBDENS PLUS ALL THE SCOVIES SO I WILL NOT USE THEM AGAIN

That is awful !!! I am so sorry to hear that.

 

[kuntrygirl]

I had a staggered hatch over the weekend.

Chicken hatched gosling on Friday.

A group of hens (turkey, chicken and duck) hatching this gosling on Saturday.

A banty hen hatched this gosling on Sunday.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I had a staggered hatch over the weekend.

Chicken hatched gosling on Friday.


A group of hens (turkey, chicken and duck) hatching this gosling on Saturday.


A banty hen hatched this gosling on Sunday.

What a strange group you have there kg, no wonder your geese look possessed they have no idea what they are. JK of course ...Congrats on all the new family members.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Thanks.

 

[Iain Utah]

When I went to horse pasture to feed this morning, I saw one of my white African girls was not in group. So, knowing she shares a nest with my broody brown African, Peanut, I headed over to make sure she was there. Sure enough, my white African was there..... but it was not a pretty sight. Sometime last night, a mink (I think) killed Peanut. Snow must have gone to nest this morning to lay her scheduled egg and found Peanut. She stayed on nest, trying to protect Peanut's dead body and the eggs. I forced her off and destroyed the remains of the nest and a trap is now there in its place.

Peanut was one of my favorites and I worried sick about her brooding in the pasture. She had less than a week left before her eggs would have hatched (a few are in my bator now). RIP pretty girl.

 

[kuntrygirl]

When I went to horse pasture to feed this morning, I saw one of my white African girls was not in group.  So, knowing she shares a nest with my broody brown African, Peanut, I headed over to make sure she was there.  Sure enough, my white African was there..... but it was not a pretty sight.  Sometime last night, a mink (I think) killed Peanut.  Snow must have gone to nest this morning to lay her scheduled egg and found Peanut.  She stayed on nest, trying to protect Peanut's dead body and the eggs.  I forced her off and destroyed the remains of the nest and a trap is now there in its place.

Peanut was one of my favorites and I worried sick about her brooding in the pasture.  She had less than a week left before her eggs would have hatched (a few are in my bator now).  RIP pretty girl.

OH NO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so sorry to hear that. That is horrible. I hope that you can trap whatever it was that killed her. I can just imagine how you feel. I am so sorry.

 

[Miss Lydia]

When I went to horse pasture to feed this morning, I saw one of my white African girls was not in group. So, knowing she shares a nest with my broody brown African, Peanut, I headed over to make sure she was there. Sure enough, my white African was there..... but it was not a pretty sight. Sometime last night, a mink (I think) killed Peanut. Snow must have gone to nest this morning to lay her scheduled egg and found Peanut. She stayed on nest, trying to protect Peanut's dead body and the eggs. I forced her off and destroyed the remains of the nest and a trap is now there in its place.

Peanut was one of my favorites and I worried sick about her brooding in the pasture. She had less than a week left before her eggs would have hatched (a few are in my bator now). RIP pretty girl.

Oh J I am so sorry. On top of everything else.