Pilgrim Geese thread

[Pennae]

how can you tell if its a pilgrim goose

 

[Miss Lydia]

how can you tell if its a pilgrim goose

Go back and read post 599 explains. Beautiful Pilgrim geese too Congrats!!

 

[BODEENY]

Has everyone on this blog with pilgrims had luck with breeding pilgrims for nesting and hatching I heard they don't have as many fertile eggs and more duds/non-fertile.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Has everyone on this blog with pilgrims had luck with breeding pilgrims for nesting and hatching I heard they don't have as many fertile eggs and more duds/non-fertile.

I don't have Pilgrim but I have been following along with RoboDuck and GAMarans adventure with their geese so go back some pages and read they just had a great natural hatch.

 

[BODEENY]

I don't have Pilgrim but I have been following along with RoboDuck and GAMarans adventure with their geese so go back some pages and read they just had a great natural hatch.

Should I get pilgrims or Toulouse what one has a higher hatch rate

 

[Miss Lydia]

Should I get pilgrims or Toulouse what one has a higher hatch rate

I have no idea because those kind of things don't interest me, I don't raise geese for profit just for enjoyment. Is that your primary interest in having gosling so you can sell them?

 

[BODEENY]

I have no idea because those kind of things don't interest me, I don't raise geese for profit just for enjoyment. Is that your primary interest in having gosling so you can sell them?

Yes I love geese very much and want as many as possible

 

[Tivona]

Should I get pilgrims or Toulouse what one has a higher hatch rate

Yes I love geese very much and want as many as possible

I have had two clutches of eggs hatch out from the Pilgrims I have. They have been awesome parents. As far as the fertility of the birds it does seem to be a lower percentage that will hatch out. I seem to be getting just around 50% to 60% of the eggs the mother sits on to hatch. I have not tried an incubator but we had lots of eggs this year with the extras going to baking. I also have another Pilgrim on a nest trying to hatch out more.

They can lay more eggs then they can sit on. My personal recommendation is to choose the breed that appeals to you the most. Don't just pick the breed that might give you the most hatch-able eggs. Things can happen regardless of the breed. I had Embdens before this and never had the female lay a single egg. If you really want lots of babies try letting the mother sit on about a dozen and try hatching the rest in an incubator. Or try a trio of 1 gander and 2 female geese. The average fertility of a breed won't tell you all you need to know or consider. Its only part of the whole.

 

[RoboDuck]

Ours abandoned viable eggs. The 6 goslings hatched and I assume the mothers waited as long as they could to get them out for their first drink so they left the rest of the eggs. We'll see if they finish out in the incubator. Before they went 100% broody we were collecting their eggs. I think we hatched out about 8. GAM can say for sure but I think we had 100% fertility in the ones we took. They successfully hatched 6 of 9 eggs they brooded upon.

 

[GAMarans]

The first two that we took from them did not develop but the others did ... and I am still convinced that the 3 eggs they left behind were started later than the 6 that hatched. We had the 2 gals in the same dog house but they had two separate nests/clutches in there. Also, the second one did not go broody at the same time. We'll see. Phenomenal result from our geese that were all still under 1 year when laying and brooding happened.