PRODUCTION Toulouse Geese Thread!!

[Miss Lydia]

Actually MLydia in that vid babe looks female

I go back to female and sticking with it!

I'll jump on that conformation serv!!

 

[livininbrazil]

Yes, everyone seems to be trying to get a jump on the breeding season. Mine are doing a lot of dress rehearsal and they are just 7 months old. I hope it does not go much beyond rehearsal because that might mean goslings in the dead of winter which would mean goslings indoors and some seriously upset parents.

Can't be the water though...we have been in extreme drought for several years. Maybe they have been slipping something into the food.

Maybe they´re trying to get ahead, while there´s still water to be had!!!!

Actually MLydia in that vid babe looks female

I go back to female and sticking with it!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Actually MLydia in that vid babe looks female

I go back to female and sticking with it!

NOW what's so funny about that, may I ask? I'll take it.

[for now anyway]

 

[livininbrazil]

NOW what's so funny about that, may I ask? I'll take it.

[for now anyway]

This one seems to have serv stumped. He´s blowing like the wind...this way and that. But he´s sticking with female, now we just have to wait it out...

I really hope it´s a big, buxom female.... but I´m with Utah, still leaning more to a gentle male. Well, someone´s going to be right!

 

[servpolice]

Haha one of us will and we will see the coming spring -_-

 

[Miss Lydia]

Haha one of us will and we will see the coming spring -_-

Maybe before because mating starts in Feb here, except for Toots and Sam. it's already started..

Babe has a very gentle personality except when it comes to the chickens then it's all out war, and Toots is just as bad. Spoiled rotten brats. actually they came out of the egg this way, Just tiny lil tots they would want to go after the dogs in the house. I'll blame it on the breeder.

 

[Carrosaur]

Maybe before because mating starts in Feb here, except for Toots and Sam. it's already started..

Babe has a very gentle personality except when it comes to the chickens then it's all out war, and Toots is just as bad. Spoiled rotten brats. actually they came out of the egg this way, Just tiny lil tots they would want to go after the dogs in the house. I'll blame it on the breeder.

 

[jtn42248]

We have all commented how odd it seems that our geese are breeding so early. Well this a.m. when I let my three out they came out as they always do and stretch up and flapped their wings and "tons" of down went flying every which way.

We have been having unseasonably warm weather lately (in the 90's) in West Texas and that will change hopefully next week back to more normal temps with highs in the 70's.

My question is...could the weather have confused their systems into thinking it was time to shed down (which they will need in the winter) and begin to breed? If so, will the shift back to more normal temps bring their behavior back to more "by the book" normal?

Inquiring minds want to know.....

 

[Carrosaur]

We have all commented how odd it seems that our geese are breeding so early. Well this a.m. when I let my three out they came out as they always do and stretch up and flapped their wings and "tons" of down went flying every which way.

We have been having unseasonably warm weather lately (in the 90's) in West Texas and that will change hopefully next week back to more normal temps with highs in the 70's.

My question is...could the weather have confused their systems into thinking it was time to shed down (which they will need in the winter) and begin to breed? If so, will the shift back to more normal temps bring their behavior back to more "by the book" normal?

Inquiring minds want to know.....

A thought! Will we get early eggs then?

 

[jtn42248]

A thought! Will we get early eggs then?

May not get early eggs but if we do I will have plenty of down to pack them in to keep them safe. Too bad I don't have a thousand or so geese. Down is selling for between 75 and 100 dollars a pound. It just takes a lot of geese to make a pound of down.