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wingstone said:
Pilgrim's have landed.
Both eggs that developed have hatched, one last night and the other a couple hours ago , still a little wet.

What now, I never had geese before.
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You got 2 little girls. Girls hatch out dark, boys will be very light colored.

Goslings do not need high protien. 16% is plenty. Give lots of fresh grass & greens. They are grazers & prefer that to feed mixes. I always give a little chick feed & lots of grass. Some scratch grains would be good too.

wingstone said:
Hubby did it again this year, and is no longer allowed to go to TSC alone during chick days
He was going for fencing so I told him to check for marked down Perkin ducks.
What I got
0 ducks
19 Asian
4 red ranger
20 leghorn, doubt they are all leghorn, some of them are pretty hefty with fat legs.

His excuse, they were only ..65 each.
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Can't pass up a deal like that!!
 
wingstone said:
But Anne
I spent 2 days last week getting all the extra roosters off the feed bill...I now have an extra 42 chicks and 2 geese to feed.
1 step forward and 3 steps back
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I'd happily help you out if I had room! Maybe it's time to stop sending hubby to TSC... :D


chiques chicks said:
They will become soup when they stop laying. Old and tough, but pressure canners work wonders.

At the moment, they still lay pretty well. No artificial light means they get a rest in the winter, so they live naturally. Just planning for the future and sustainability.
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Thanks, good to know. Did you mean pressure cooker or canner? Or are they the same thing?
 
chiques chicks said:
AnneInTheBurbs said:
I'd happily help you out if I had room! Maybe it's time to stop sending hubby to TSC... :D
Thanks, good to know. Did you mean pressure cooker or canner? Or are they the same thing?
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I can. But pressure cooking helps tenderize meat as well. You can pressure cook in most pressure canners, but can't can in all pressure cookers.
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To me that made sense but I bet you just confused a few people
 
wingstone said:
To me that made sense but I bet you just confused a few people
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On, I'll try to clarify.

I can, as in put the meat in jars and process in a pressure canner.

Some pressure cookers are meant only for cooking. Pressure canners are designed for processing meats and produce in jars under pressure. Most may also be used to pressure cook food for immediate consumption.

Pressure cooking tough cuts of meat tenderizes them to some extent. Processing them in a pressure canner also tenderizes them to an extent, although most meats I process that way end up getting shredded later and used for soups and stews as well as chicken salad and such.

I tried cooking an old rooster in a smoker once and it was inedible. If I have tough or old meat, the only way i like it is cooked low and slow with moisture or pressure cooked to break apart the connective tissue and muscle.

Better? Lol
 
Very well put CC
Little more advice needed for the little goslings ( I think that is what they would be called)
I thought I had 2 little boys because of the yellow under color, but two little girls will be good also.
Anyone have a pic of a little boy for comparison
Anyone have a little boy for sale
Is it OK if they eat a 24% starter feed for now
That starter is a base mix for my other feed, when can they have the mix with the seeds in it. ( the meat birds get started on the mix at 1 week old )
Are they always friendly, talkative and just plain nosey, or do I have rejects.

Just covering the basics, I gotta admit this worries me, I have never met any friendly geese.
 
I'm getting excited! Granted, I still have at least 2 and a half weeks until the first ones stay to hatch but my turkey eggs are developing! At least 10 so far and those are only the ones that have been in at least a week. The 6 that have been in for almost 2 weeks are moving and grooving! The other 4 have only been in about a week and there's nothing to see but a couple veins. Still 6 more that I can't even attempt to candle until the weekend. I'm getting very excited! Hubby and I need to get busy building our turkey house and run lol.
 
I'm sending eggs to silkie tomorrow. I'll probably get some in return in a couple weeks. If she has more pilgrim eggs then, she can just throw some in for you @wingstone. Or give them to you. Maybe you'll get the other sex. I don't even know what a pilgrim goose looks like. Are they a meat bird? I can't imagine keeping geese, although if they graze, they could keep my field trimmed. Or my "lawn", aka weed collection.
 

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