newbiechickenlady20
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- Jan 28, 2020
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We have two Sebastopol geese, not a year old yet. They hatched in the springtime. I don't know if this time of year is typically mating season, but they have decided it is at any rate lol.
We have a male and a female and the female laid her first egg 10 days ago. She laid it in the middle of their fencing, and left it there. We took the egg inside. However, this morning the gander was very protective over their pool, and he has been protective around their enclosure with my husband. The goose was inside the enclosure and looked like she was making a little nest this morning, so I looked and found two more eggs (there may be more, it's hard to access that part of their enclosure).
We do not want goslings right now, so I removed the two eggs that I found. Will she stop laying soon if they keep getting removed? Or do I need to put them back and wait til she's got her little bunch of eggs to remove them, and hope she doesn't go broody? She is not currently sitting on them, so far as I can tell.
We've had geese for a while, but never a mated pair, so this is all new to us. Thanks in advance!
We have a male and a female and the female laid her first egg 10 days ago. She laid it in the middle of their fencing, and left it there. We took the egg inside. However, this morning the gander was very protective over their pool, and he has been protective around their enclosure with my husband. The goose was inside the enclosure and looked like she was making a little nest this morning, so I looked and found two more eggs (there may be more, it's hard to access that part of their enclosure).
We do not want goslings right now, so I removed the two eggs that I found. Will she stop laying soon if they keep getting removed? Or do I need to put them back and wait til she's got her little bunch of eggs to remove them, and hope she doesn't go broody? She is not currently sitting on them, so far as I can tell.
We've had geese for a while, but never a mated pair, so this is all new to us. Thanks in advance!