Ok so take a look at this please!!!!

[goosedragon]

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What do you think? Have you ever seen a chicken egg that large? I think it is slightly small for an Embden egg but I have never owned that breed. It is a goose egg! ~gd

 

[chickenlady08]

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What do you think? Have you ever seen a chicken egg that large? I think it is slightly small for an Embden egg but I have never owned that breed. It is a goose egg! ~gd

I have seen some pretty good sized chicken eggs before but never this large. This is 3 inches long and I don't have but a few Red Stars left and they lay the brown eggs. But aren't first eggs in most everything smaller the first time around?

 

[goosedragon]

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to be honest I don't think that my geese are afraid of my drakes. My Cayuago is funny though. when he is coming their way they move away from him but I don't see Martin chasing them away. They are huge campared to Martin. haha

thank you again. the other doesn't seem to have any interest in the goose but my Livestock supply store owner says that she probably hasn't matured and isn't interested in that yet.

This morning my Khaki Campbell was on top of my goose. Honestly! that makes me and my kids laugh so much to see this little drake sitting on top of her.
I really wish I had a gander and a goose so I didn't have to find a gander now. I don't want to get a baby, but where I live noone raises them so I guess a goshling will have to do and I will also get some girls for my KC and Cayuago drakes.


Thank you again!

I can't say it is general, but my geese were always modest about mating, There would be courtship in the pool but I seldom caught them in the act. Every once in a while the gander would make a noise that meant he was finished. Saw much more 'action' with video cameras (I wonder if there is a market for goosy porn? LOL) I used to call them old granny geese because they would get quite upset with the ducks mating and would often break it up. BTW you do know that in geese in general and big breeds the males mature more slowly than the females? If this is their first year you just may have an inmature gander who will 'get down to business' later this Spring.

 

[chickenlady08]

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to be honest I don't think that my geese are afraid of my drakes. My Cayuago is funny though. when he is coming their way they move away from him but I don't see Martin chasing them away. They are huge campared to Martin. haha

thank you again. the other doesn't seem to have any interest in the goose but my Livestock supply store owner says that she probably hasn't matured and isn't interested in that yet.

This morning my Khaki Campbell was on top of my goose. Honestly! that makes me and my kids laugh so much to see this little drake sitting on top of her.
I really wish I had a gander and a goose so I didn't have to find a gander now. I don't want to get a baby, but where I live noone raises them so I guess a goshling will have to do and I will also get some girls for my KC and Cayuago drakes.


Thank you again!

I can't say it is general, but my geese were always modest about mating, There would be courtship in the pool but I seldom caught them in the act. Every once in a while the gander would make a noise that meant he was finished. Saw much more 'action' with video cameras (I wonder if there is a market for goosy porn? LOL) I used to call them old granny geese because they would get quite upset with the ducks mating and would often break it up. BTW you do know that in geese in general and big breeds the males mature more slowly than the females? If this is their first year you just may have an inmature gander who will 'get down to business' later this Spring.

I have a video of my KC drake sitting on top of my goose. I sure hope that the other one is a gander. And I didn't know that ganders mature slower. Huh, learned someting new today. Thank you. Yep this is their first year and I got them of May of last year. The confirmed goose has a larger pooch in her abdomen area. The other has a pooch but smaller so I will wait and see. but they really do look very much alike to me and kinda always have. But since I am new to geese then I can't offer anything more than my gut feeling of them both being girls. (but still have my hopes up for the other to be a gander)

Oh goose videos that would be kinda funny. Oh and both my geese always try to break up the roosters from mating with the hens. They are quite loud and come running and flapping their wings. And if 2 roosters are fighting then they come running also. I like that they don't like aggressiveness in my roos also. lol

 

[Shiloh Acres]

You're welcome ... And I doubt your geese are afraid of your drakes. Like I said, mine was a weird situation.

I didn't put the geese into the huge community yard until they were already full-sized, but they were mentally still babies. My boss drake (tiny in comparison, an Indian runner) would start chasing them, and they would run from him, screaming their "Mama, help us!" cry. I would "rescue" them, and like as not, he'd do it again a few hours later. I'd pen him up for time-out, but it did no good. I'd fuss at him and hold him upside down in front of his girlfriends, and that would shame him into hiding for a day or so. Sometimes I got tired of it and penned him, but the rest of the ducks wouldn't range without him.

It went on for many months until the geese FINALLY realized they were bigger. Or to be honest, until the ganders finally had hormones kick in and become aggressive enough back that they let each other alone. Once or twice it still would happen ... I'd hear frantic goose calls and look out to see that silly tiny drake chasing a full grown gander.

Totally weird. I kinda doubt anyone else would say the same, but since it DID happen to me I didn't want to ignore the possibility.

That drake attacked humans too. Acted just like a breeding gander, running up when your back was turned. Luckily his "bites" were pretty much just tickles. I think it made him furious that his attacks didn't scare us off and we would laugh at him.

 

[chickenlady08]

Ok, so got another egg today. so this makes 2 eggs this week and it was laid in the same place as the one was on laid on Wednesday. I think it is from the same girl though. It is the same length maybe a little larger in size.

My husband cooked the first one last night and my goodness that yoke was so large the whole egg just about filled the bottom of the pan. Think it was a 8 inch pan also.

Now I wonder if the other is a girl or maybe a slower maturing boy. I will be happy either way but even happier if I have a goose and a gander so I don't have to get a gander this year.

Do Embden go broody and try to hatch their own babies? kinda hope not cause the chance of finding fertilized goose eggs in my area is pretty slim chances on that.

Thank you guys.

 

[kuntrygirl]

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Looks like a goose egg to me. I have a few Embden as well. Mine go broody every year and they do hatch their own babies. Do you have any males?

 

[chickenlady08]

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Looks like a goose egg to me. I have a few Embden as well. Mine go broody every year and they do hatch their own babies. Do you have any males?

I have 2 Embden and one is a confirmed female and not 100% yet of the other one yet but either the girl is not ready for egg laying or the boy is not mature enough to keep the duck off of the confirmed female. I wanted to get whatever sex I dont have but I am afraid that if the other one is a boy I don't want to have 2 boys and 1 girl. I just want 1 boy and 2 girls or 1 boy and 1 girl.

they both look quite similiar in appearance though. One has a bigger pouch at her abdomen, the other has one but not as large.

 

[chickenlady08]

Ok, it is official!!!! I have 2 female Embdens. Got my 2nd egg from goose #1 Friday. Then today I go out and look and nothing but go out and turn them out this afternoon and find Goose egg #3 for the week.It looked a little different from the previous 2, still was uncertain of #2's gender until I go out and close the chickens and geese and duck ups and my son finds Goose Egg #4. This one looks like the previous 2 eggs from Wednesday and Friday. And then my Cayuago drake Martin was loving on Goose #2.

So I hope you all understand I am just so very excited and hope I explained it so you all understand.

But

Now I need to find me a Embden gander prefer a grown one so they can have a friend now instead of waiting for the boy to mature. Cause if they are like many of my chickens then I know they will go broody and I won't have any fertile eggs for them to hatch.

Does anyone know of a place in VA that sells adult (friendly) Embden Ganders?

 

[gofasterstripe]

Good lord thats huge. My Jumbo Pekin has layed 3 eggs that size this week, Ive always said she was part goose...she sounds like one when she lets rip.
This is her egg with a Pekin egg and a Runner egg