benevolent_leonela
Songster
Hello all!
It's a pleasure to finally be on BYC, this is my first post. I have lurked and read forums for over a year now since I started planning for my first flock and I decided I would make an account cause I have a question.
I have a Embden gander, Hugo. He has been a widower twice, once being while he has been in my possession. Hugo lost is first wife to a car accident and he was very lonely and everybody found him to be a nuisance. I became very infactuated with Hugo's beauty and I vowed to home him once I raised my laying hens up and had my forever coop established. His second wife who I purchased for him, Lola, was brutally attacked in broad daylight one day while I was away at work. Her head and throat injuries were severe and there wasn't much I could do to save her. I felt so terrible as this was my ganders first goose wife (his rebound was a female pot belly after his first wife) in over a year and he was so enamored with Lola. He mourned for a couple weeks and I found a beautiful 4 month old Pilgrim. It took a few days for them to be acquainted but they are very much inseparable now. They have been together for about 2 months now.
Recently, Hugo makes this high pitched trumpet call beginning in the early hours of the morning usually around 6am. Sometimes he toots his horn at 4-5am, rarely. And it continues intermediately throughout the day.
What does this call mean? He never made this particular call before. Sometimes with his second wife, Lola. But with the Pilgrim it's very often. He was always a quiet bird usually, especially during dark hours. Now he's very vocal! Any goose experts have any input?
For perspective, I also have a rescued "wild" Canada goose, Toque. I found him as a gosling in the spring abandoned and exhausted on the river I live on. Toque's parents never came back into the night. I couldn't go to bed knowing I could have saved this new little fluff to die. Toque has since become an integral part of our family. Hugo and toque were pals until I found Lola. Is this Hugo's dominance call to my canada goose perhaps?
Thanks in advance! Happy to be here
It's a pleasure to finally be on BYC, this is my first post. I have lurked and read forums for over a year now since I started planning for my first flock and I decided I would make an account cause I have a question.
I have a Embden gander, Hugo. He has been a widower twice, once being while he has been in my possession. Hugo lost is first wife to a car accident and he was very lonely and everybody found him to be a nuisance. I became very infactuated with Hugo's beauty and I vowed to home him once I raised my laying hens up and had my forever coop established. His second wife who I purchased for him, Lola, was brutally attacked in broad daylight one day while I was away at work. Her head and throat injuries were severe and there wasn't much I could do to save her. I felt so terrible as this was my ganders first goose wife (his rebound was a female pot belly after his first wife) in over a year and he was so enamored with Lola. He mourned for a couple weeks and I found a beautiful 4 month old Pilgrim. It took a few days for them to be acquainted but they are very much inseparable now. They have been together for about 2 months now.
Recently, Hugo makes this high pitched trumpet call beginning in the early hours of the morning usually around 6am. Sometimes he toots his horn at 4-5am, rarely. And it continues intermediately throughout the day.
What does this call mean? He never made this particular call before. Sometimes with his second wife, Lola. But with the Pilgrim it's very often. He was always a quiet bird usually, especially during dark hours. Now he's very vocal! Any goose experts have any input?
For perspective, I also have a rescued "wild" Canada goose, Toque. I found him as a gosling in the spring abandoned and exhausted on the river I live on. Toque's parents never came back into the night. I couldn't go to bed knowing I could have saved this new little fluff to die. Toque has since become an integral part of our family. Hugo and toque were pals until I found Lola. Is this Hugo's dominance call to my canada goose perhaps?
Thanks in advance! Happy to be here
its almost daily at this time that it usually begins. He's like my alarm clock now! It's nice when I want one but not so great when I want to sleep in!
I'm usually up around this time anyways.
