Pics of Embden goslings?

[ThiefPouter06]

Yeah I attempted to vent sex one and didnt get anything. I wonder where the grey geese came from lol. He must of forgot getting eggs from someone because he only has chinese and one pair of embden, but he gets eggs from many places to hatch. Maybe I ll get lucking and its a trio of pilgrim!

 

[shelleyd2008]

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I thought you said he had toulouse as well? On the KY people thread?

 

[GrumpyOldMan]

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Pilgrim female darker gray males lighter gray until they loose their down. Then female gray fathers, male mostly white with some gray. Take it form a guy that got taken.

Two male Pilgrim.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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Pilgrim female darker gray males lighter gray until they loose their down. Then female gray fathers, male mostly white with some gray. Take it form a guy that got taken.

Two male Pilgrim.

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff155/germil1/LeoTaffy.jpg

Are you sure they are pure pilgrims? The reason I ask is that pilgrim males are usually all white with maybe a little grey on their heads.

 

[GrumpyOldMan]

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Pilgrim female darker gray males lighter gray until they loose their down. Then female gray fathers, male mostly white with some gray. Take it form a guy that got taken.

Two male Pilgrim.

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff155/germil1/LeoTaffy.jpg

Are you sure they are pure pilgrims? The reason I ask is that pilgrim males are usually all white with maybe a little grey on their heads.

Am I sure?????

One was supposed to be a female.

Actually “quality” Pilgrim ganders are supposed to have a little gray on the edges off their wings, (can be seen when they open their wings) and in their tail. Ours are only about 14 weeks old so I’m hopeing as they age and molt they’ll loose some of the “out of place” gray fathers, but I doubt it. I doubt it because their father was mottled looking also.

 

[ThiefPouter06]

Shelly, I did say that but I was mistaken. He only has white and brown chinese and embden. I guess they could be half chinese and embden but there beaks I think would look like chinese. but he buys eggs all the time so he must have got some gray geese of some type.

Grumpy, Those are nice looking pilgrims if that is any consolation.....gives you an excuse to buy to more geese.

 

[GrumpyOldMan]

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Thank you! They are my wife’s babies. They think she’s their momma even though they were 6 weeks old when we got them and they were being reared by momma and poppa geese. They tolerate me but looooovvvvveeeee her. I’d love to get two geese (females) but two chicken’s two duck’s and the two gander’s is all our yard will hold. There just isn’t room for two more. That’s the reason I was sooooooo insistent that the people sell us a “pair”. They sold the one I was positive was a female (saw pictures) the day before we picked the two guys up, knowing we were driving 300 + miles to come for them. I should have refused to buy them but I thought I could be mistake about them both being male (they were both light gray) since it was our first up close an personal encounter with Pilgrim. We fell in love with them anyway. They were sooooo cute and fizzy.

Good luck with yours... they are all sooooo cute.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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Yeah, they don't look like they have chinese-type beaks at all. But if they are mixed it's hard to say, they might just not get the gene for that. They do look like baby toulouse though, did you ask him if he might have gotten some some place else?

If you are looking for embden or toulouse goslings, a man outside of Campbellsville has some youngsters (4-5 months old) that he sells for $25 a pair. I only got 1 pair, broke as usual

Let me know if you're interested and I'll send you his number. I believe he has chinese or africans too, though I'm not sure about that. All his 'babies' are hen-raised, he doesn't incubate them himself.

 

[ThiefPouter06]

speaking of hen raising, is all you have to do is mist them with water when under a hen? And how do you take goslingd from a goose without being killed? haha

 

[shelleyd2008]

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When the hens are sitting on them, as long as they have water to bathe in, you shouldn't have to do anything with them. I've had chickens hatch duck eggs with no intervention, and they obviously don't get wet

As for taking goslings away? Good luck!

I guess if the adults aren't too friendly, it wouldn't be too hard. I put my young ones outside with the adults and remove them every night, and it's not too bad...but these aren't their babies, so I don't know if that would make a difference. You'd just have to get the babies separated from the parents somehow, and watch out for the wings!