My first goose egg? Or a double yolker duck?

[livininbrazil]

Not sure he is too dignified or just the fact that the geese are behind the bank barn . So I can't see them unless I am out with them. Can't even hear them in the house unless windows are open.

Wow, you don´t know what you´re missing! My house looks over "Goose Green" as we call it, and it´s like having a free show all day!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Hi MLyd, as so many have muscovies here it´s difficult to sell them. Sometimes people will buy ducklings, but I think it´s more for the funof it, sometimes for eating, but generally if people want to eat them they also raise them. The meat is very nice, by the way. There are number of older folks here that don´t have the space for muscovies, but like their eggs. There are some cake recipes that only muscovy eggs will do it right, and some eat the eggs because of the higher iron content. A number of older folks like to take it raw beaten with something or other to treat anaemia. My friend was pregnant and wanted to do this for the iron, but I told her it wasn´t a good idea, even moreso that she´s pregnant. So, they don´t buy them for hatching, just for eating
.
I have a tiny little light brahma chick that´s fighting for its life. Only one out of six eggs survived to hatch. And this single chick got separated somehow from the chicken last night and ended up down the side of the nestbox, between the straw and the wood. When I went out to check this morning, I couldn´t find it anywhere. So, I started to pull the old hay out of the nest, and there was its little body. But it was limp, so I knew it was alive. After a minute or so I could feel the heartbeat. It´s slowly improving, I don´t know yet if it´ll survive. It´s a nuisance, because I bought these brahma eggs to introduce new blood to mine, and so far it´s not gone very well. These are the ones that I had to put under a duck because the hen that I had intended to use got a wound and came off the nest the same day that I bought the eggs. Well, a lizard came and visited the duck, because two of the eggs vanished, so I moved the remaining 4 to a hen which by now had also gone broody. Of these, just the one hatched., and she let it get cold! (After a while the duck eggs also vanished, that´s why I think it was a lizard.)
Also, because I had no broody hen still after a week, I put another 6 eggs under another duck, and then when another hen went broody, I popped them under her and left the duck with 2 duck eggs. 2 of those 6 have gone bad so far, the remaining 4 are due to hatch next week. I have a feeling the whole thing will turn out to be a waste of time. Life´s never dull, eh?

I sure hope your lil chick perks up, had this happen here a few times too, chick and duckling so hopefully yours will be strong enough to make it, both of mine did.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Not sure he is too dignified or just the fact that the geese are behind the bank barn . So I can't see them unless I am out with them. Can't even hear them in the house unless windows are open.

Well that must be it because I'm betting Sam can be heard a few miles away if the wind if blowing right. lol

 

[livininbrazil]

I sure hope your lil chick perks up, had this happen here a few times too, chick and duckling so hopefully yours will be strong enough to make it, both of mine did.

No, it died. It warmed up, cheeped loudly, thrashed about and died.There you go, that´s how the cookie crumbles....

 

[Miss Lydia]

No, it died. It warmed up, cheeped loudly, thrashed about and died.There you go, that´s how the cookie crumbles....

I'm sorry.

hopefully more on the way

 

[livininbrazil]

I'm sorry.

hopefully more on the way

Yes, I have gorgeous little brahma chicks here. I only leave a small number of eggs for them to hatch, and at the moment my partridge hen has 3 partridge chicks, I´m so pleased, and I have a number of blacks and a few buffs. But I just need some new blood as I can´t have them interbreeding too much. I´ll have to get searching again, but I won´t go back to the same place that I got the eggs as I´m not sure why the eggs haven´t done well. I tend to have very good results from my eggs here.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Yes, I have gorgeous little brahma chicks here. I only leave a small number of eggs for them to hatch, and at the moment my partridge hen has 3 partridge chicks, I´m so pleased, and I have a number of blacks and a few buffs. But I just need some new blood as I can´t have them interbreeding too much. I´ll have to get searching again, but I won´t go back to the same place that I got the eggs as I´m not sure why the eggs haven´t done well. I tend to have very good results from my eggs here.

Hopefully you can find a new supplier so you can continue to hatch..

 

[livininbrazil]

Hopefully you can find a new supplier so you can continue to hatch..

There´s a guy in a town about 40 minutes away who deals in poultry and other birds. I want to go and see him, because sometimes he finds some reasonably good brahmas, and I also once saw some auto-sexing geese in there (greyish with specs) that I wish I´d bought afterwards. Always the way! So I´ll go and see him about both, see if he can get hold of any for me.

 

[Miss Lydia]

There´s a guy in a town about 40 minutes away who deals in poultry and other birds. I want to go and see him, because sometimes he finds some reasonably good brahmas, and I also once saw some auto-sexing geese in there (greyish with specs) that I wish I´d bought afterwards. Always the way! So I´ll go and see him about both, see if he can get hold of any for me.

Well that's great news when you go ask if you can take some pics I'd love to see the flock.

 

[livininbrazil]

Well that's great news when you go ask if you can take some pics I'd love to see the flock.

Oh, that´d be nice, but he´s only a dealer. He goes around making deals to buy and sell, and has a shop as his base which is open to anyone. He sells anything from finches, parakeets and canaries to day-old chicks and ducklings, to turkeys, pheasants, peacocks and of course geese. I´ve not seen an ostrich in there yet! There is a risk of contamination, so I have to keep any birds I get from him separate from my others for a bit, but he can usually get what you want if you just wait and if it exists here! Now, he has no idea what auto-sexing geese are, so I´ll just explain to him about the 2 geese he had with the white faces, and he should remember where he got those two from. Here´s hoping.