STILL laying eggs?

[bluemerle]

I know the (logical) answer to "when will my geese stop laying eggs" is "when they dang well please"; but it is almost July and I'm still collecting eggs from both of my females. Not as prolifically as the start of the season (two eggs every other day vs. two eggs every three or four days) but still .... shouldn't they be done now? Is continuing to feed them Layena (which they've been on since Feb, split 50/50 with their Flock Raiser) a mistake? I don't want them to exhaust themselves or get egg bound.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Feeding a layer doesn't promote laying. It just gives them extra calcium. Mine have mostly stopped laying currently. I think breeds and breeding has more to do with production.

 

[justin shrew]

And while geese are about to laying, ours are to begin at the beginning of July or early August.

 

[Miss Lydia]

What’s really strange is mating is still going on usually it’s over an done they have molted by now. This is def weird.

 

[bluemerle]

Feeding a layer doesn't promote laying. It just gives them extra calcium. Mine have mostly stopped laying currently. I think breeds and breeding has more to do with production.

Thanks for the input! I read one person's experience with an eggbound duck - their vet said that laying feed could promote over-laying, leading to egg binding, but I don't know if that's backed up by research or even anecdotal evidence. But now it's something I think about.

What’s really strange is mating is still going on usually it’s over an done they have molted by now. This is def weird.

Yes!!! Both of my hens look like garbage. I wish they'd just quit laying and molt already. I know we've had some strange weather this year, which could be an influence - or they're just exuberant first-time layers - but man, I feel so bad for them going to their barn and laying an egg in hundred degree weather.

 

[Miss Lydia]

My 8 yr old hasn’t laid since she was 4 yrs old and they still go through the mating season but every year they’ve been done by end of May and start molting. I’m sure your girls will be through soon or I hope so. It’s defiantly been a strange year in more than just our geese.

 

[bluemerle]

Got an egg from Daisy this morning: she always lays either in the night or early-morning, then gets up and goes about her day. Pearl has been on the nest (off-and-on: I've been making her get up periodically) all day. Despite laying for two days straight. Then, when I make her get up, she's drooling because she's dehydrated.

I've locked her out of her barn for now - it's a hundred degrees outside. If she wants it back in the evening, I'll let her back in.

 

[Miss Lydia]

That’s so hot for them. Poor girls!

 

[bluemerle]

Update: Pearl stopped laying 2 weeks ago. Daisy laid another egg this morning.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Boy this has been a weird year, my geese are still breeding!