Pics of my Pied goslings

[WaterfowlWierdo]

At least she's got a happy life, that's about as much as anyone can do. While it's a shame she can't have her own offspring through no fault of her own, it's good you're not breeding on with genes that could lead to suffering or degrade the whole breed. I'm not a fan of hatcheries in general, I know there's good ones, but too often they aren't even checking that the babies they hatch are correct in any way. I'v seen some shocking stock come from hatcheries.

I have a few lovely and productive birds who I can't breed either due to inherited faults. It's a shame.

I can eat my roosters though some are pets so they have the 'get out of the pot free' card.

But with all livestock my criteria for them being edible involves a happy healthy life, a peaceful cull they were not aware of before it happened, and the culls can't be distressing to the rest of the flock. With the chooks this can be achieved but with the geese, they just got more and more suspicious and anxious as more and more ganders went missing, it was too stressful for them so that's invalidated them as meat birds for me. Too intelligent and too strongly family oriented. If it can't be done peacefully, it must not be done at all. Just my stance on it for my flock's and family's collective health. So we ended up rehoming the geese.

Best wishes to both of you.

Yeah, I dont think I will ever do hatcheries for anymore waterfowl ever again. . . its disappointing