Sebastopol geese - selecting breeding stock, color genetics, and color improvement

[pips&peeps]

Amy, the USPS changed the regulations on lives. They get three days now, so there is no real guarantee on them.

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[poultry09]

2 days is very common for shipping of live birds. To arrive over night is an exception. The express mail gets them delivered in 2 days. They will bump live birds from a flight if it has dry ice on it because it will kill them. This can not be avoided since FedEx actually hauls the live birds for USPS and has final say for bumping ect.

The problem we had was who ever was transporting them actually lost the birds, they had to issue an emergency search for them but fortunetly they did find them that night.

Awww- congrats Poultry09! So cute peeking out of the box.
You can get some money back on the shipping since it was guaranteed. They will refund the difference from Priority to Express in most cases, but the shipper has to file for it.

The lady I bought from is in the process of getting the refund, She has all the paper work and recipts that says they were gauranteed to arrive on January 3rd or 100% money back guarantee. So we will see what happens.

Thank you!

The SB gander is awesome! he is my shadow follows me everywhere and the lav follows a little further behind and they both eat romaine lettuce out of my hand. I am very happy with them!

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[RURU]

Happy Mtn, did you get a lavender curly breasted female from Christine in WA.? If so that was one of the four I purchased from woolfarm.

 

[RURU]

Poultry 09 I will keep you in mind if we have any Splashes hatched this season.

Happy Mtn will keep you in mind as well for a splash.

With sebastopols hatching season you never know how things will go or how many goslings that will hatch? Last year was an awful season for me. I sure hope this season is better????? I believe I fed too high of protien food to them for the winter and made fat around their fertility organs and this caused such a low rate on the breeding season. I have found out that too much protien fed to ganders can cause too much fat around the fertility organs and the fertility rate goes down or they produce weak goslings in the shell. I am not sure if it affects the females in the same manner. So I have them on a 15% protien special mixed feed. Corn is one of the things to stay away from. I do not feed much corn at all...

 

[Goose and Fig]

Happy Mtn, did you get a lavender curly breasted female from Christine in WA.? If so that was one of the four I purchased from woolfarm.

Yes- I have her! Trying to get her to bond with my lav gander, but the hormones haven't really kicked in with the sebs ones yet. They have their own little house that they go into at night though. He is a smoothbreast. I don't know if its because of the curl or what, but they don't look like they are the same color.
Can't wait to see what we get out of them- they look like they will compliment/balance eachother well.

Would LOVE to have a splash like Spicie, though!

I also read somewhere that you should have the geese on the trim side for breeding season. I had always thought you'd need to bulk them up for winter, but apparently that is detrimental to fertility.
My toulouse are laying now, and they seem to be favoring the whole grains over crumbles more than they did a month ago. I usually do a 50/50 mix and they are picking out all the grains. If I scatter it on the ground, they will eat it all but the oats. Puzzling.

 

[RURU]

The lavender girl was such a lovely ice silver color. I hope you have some beautiful goslings from her.

Our sebbies are starting the gander fighting which means we will soon be doing the breeding thing. At least this year we have seperate pens to put each pair in at night and then they will be seperated at night. But will free range during the day unless I have trouble with a goose not accepting a gander of my choice then I will keep them in their pen together until the breed.
Grant has already paired with Samantha, this is our pair that produced SPicie and the one Vicky has Sterling. So I know for sre thy will be together.
Spicie has paired up with Sassafras, I am not sure if he is also paired up with Sarina if not will take her out and put her with our lavender smooth breasted gander. Sarina is white curly that carries saddleback gene.
Lance has chosen Gloria.
Sammie white curly has chosen Ginger grey SB, Nikki lavender curly has chosen Hanna gey SB curly.
Those are my main choises and they paired the way I wanted them too.

Now for the Blue smooth Berrie I want him with Vanessa white curly from Vicky but not so sure he will bond with her. He seems to like the smooth breasted white which I do not want him with. I want the white smooth breasted girl Nessie with a grey splash gander curly which I think both carrie Buff. These are the ones I have to make sure goes how I want instead of how they want.

 

[pips&peeps]

Barb,

Sebastopols are not monogamous and a female will have no problem mating with a different male while no one is watching. I find it best to keep the birds separated in breeding groups until the season is over.

 

[RURU]

Thank you pips and peeps.

That is what I am working on but need to give a kick in the butt to my husband to finish the doors in the pens we have seperated
already. I ask him now going on 4 months now. I told him yesterday please get the doors done these geese are starting to fight with each other, the ganders that is.
I can not do it because of my severe back problems.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

Here is my quad of White Sebastapols - all four of them have AW or TWT, not sure if it's in their genetics or because of their former owner's improper feeding. Anyway, I'm hoping to get some good goslings from them this coming season.









Their daughter - Princess



I have some new lovely Sebbies coming from Celtic, I'm so excited!! Thanks Shellie

~ Aspen

 

[pips&peeps]

No angel wing there.