The African and Chinese goose thread!!

[tabbysmith]

Welcome to BYC! If you are able to, try to take a picture of the lump and post it. From what you are describing, I am suspecting its a "skin tag".

 

[tabbysmith]

Welcome to BYC! If you are able to, try to take a picture of the lump and post it. From what you are describing, I am suspecting its a "skin tag".

Thank you! And I really hope so she was also having some webbing problems, they split :/ and idk why.

 

[atmaclean]

The little bluish baby is probably a blue buff. Hard to say African or Chinese at the age the others are.

Thank you!! I know nothing about Blue buffs. I will have to read up on them. It is such a sweet little thing but more skittish than her goose friend. I've been letting them out to graze near the other geese who are a few weeks older. They younger ones are terrified of the older ones foe some reason. The older ones try to go look at the babies but the babies scream and run to me and hide behind me. Yesterday they got a little closer to one another. The older ones are free to roam during the day (under the watch of "Highway" the goose we rescued from the road). The smaller ones are up in an indoor/outdoor pen unless I'm home and out there to supervise.
Thanks again for the I.D.!!
Angela

 

[servpolice]

Any Idea what breed(s) this little (light colored) one may be? I hatched her/him a few weeks ago from some eggs I bought online. The seller says he has Chinese, Sebastopol, Toulouse, and American Blue Buff so I'm not sure which this one might be. The other baby, I'm assuming, is a brown Chinese...? They are a week apart in age.


This is another picture of them. Another picture of the 2 of them. These 2 I purchased from a store about an hour away. They are a few weeks older than the first pair. They are "hatchery choice" from Ideal Poultry. I think they might be African - is there any way to tell, for sure if they are African or Chinese?

The little lighter guy looks a lot like my buff african goslings.

These are 2-5 weeks old in the pictures, they're now 4-7 weeks . Could be buff blue too as i've never seen one before and it would be cool to have one!

 

[atmaclean]

The little lighter guy looks a lot like my buff african goslings.

These are 2-5 weeks old in the pictures, they're now 4-7 weeks .
Could be buff blue too as i've never seen one before and it would be cool to have one!

Wow! They do look alike. I wonder if that's what she is? She/he is starting to get some little feathers and they do look tan....guess I will have to wait and see thanks!!

 

[nightowl223]

The pair that I took soooo many pictures to have you good folks help me identify their gender are STILL confusing me. I just noticed that everyone says the ganders are always higher-pitched when they vocalize, and the one that everyone said from the pictures of my pair is the female... is the one that has the higher voice. *sigh*

I did have those way over-sized eggs I found in random places that I was certain HAD to be goose eggs, because the only other egg-layers I have are chickens, quail, and guinea, and something that size would have probably killed a chicken, and they definitely weren't guinea eggs. But if the one with the lower voice is the female, she's as mean as the day is long, and the one that I've had to give attitude adjustments to.

Sooooo confusing...

Soooo.... lol, it looks like I'm going shopping for a definite female somewhere nearby at a reasonable price!

Which leads to the next question. What is a reasonable price to pay for a Brown Chinese that's definitely a female, either from sexing as a young one or from knowing because she's adult. I'd like pricing for any and all ages. I live in Missouri, very close to Kansas, if that changes pricing (some critters vary in prices due to where you are, dunno if geese are the same). Thank you in advance!

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[Chaneys Ranch]

The pair that I took soooo many pictures to have you good folks help me identify their gender are STILL confusing me. I just noticed that everyone says the ganders are always higher-pitched when they vocalize, and the one that everyone said from the pictures of my pair is the female... is the one that has the higher voice. *sigh*

I did have those way over-sized eggs I found in random places that I was certain HAD to be goose eggs, because the only other egg-layers I have are chickens, quail, and guinea, and something that size would have probably killed a chicken, and they definitely weren't guinea eggs. But if the one with the lower voice is the female, she's as mean as the day is long, and the one that I've had to give attitude adjustments to.

Sooooo confusing...

Soooo.... lol, it looks like I'm going shopping for a definite female somewhere nearby at a reasonable price!

Which leads to the next question. What is a reasonable price to pay for a Brown Chinese that's definitely a female, either from sexing as a young one or from knowing because she's adult. I'd like pricing for any and all ages. I live in Missouri, very close to Kansas, if that changes pricing (some critters vary in prices due to where you are, dunno if geese are the same). Thank you in advance!

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Goose hens can be real stinkers too! Especially a grouchy broody one. If they are mixed at all, the voice could be different, but its unlikely. Have you seen one sitting on a nest yet, or any sign of broodyness? The hard part there, some ganders will actually help brood nests. My Embden gander sits with his ladies a lot.
If I have them, I sell adult laying goose for $25 each, same for ganders. Its a large bird, so I want folks to realize the value of them. Takes 8 months to reach maturity on average. Its an investment for me, and I expect to regain the cost. I normally will not sell a goose as a table bird either unless its outwardly aggressive to other birds or people. The buyer.. I expect them to be buying my birds as flock alarms, and pets or eggs. If you are looking for "pure breed" NPIP birds, expect to pay more. It really depends on your local market prices you are correct. Auctions are a good place to look if you aren't concerned with the breed. Just pay close attention to overall heath and quarantine new birds, no matter where you get them.
I am fortunate enough that my veterinarian buys every started goose I hatch for his poultry farm. He has a large organic poultry operation, and his flocks are all behind portable electric fences. The geese stop hawks and owls from taking his other poultry, and he is at near -0- loss now from hawk and owl.

 

[NathanZee]

Goose hens can be real stinkers too! Especially a grouchy broody one. If they are mixed at all, the voice could be different, but its unlikely. Have you seen one sitting on a nest yet, or any sign of broodyness? The hard part there, some ganders will actually help brood nests. My Embden gander sits with his ladies a lot.
If I have them, I sell adult laying goose for $25 each, same for ganders. Its a large bird, so I want folks to realize the value of them. Takes 8 months to reach maturity on average. Its an investment for me, and I expect to regain the cost. I normally will not sell a goose as a table bird either unless its outwardly aggressive to other birds or people. The buyer.. I expect them to be buying my birds as flock alarms, and pets or eggs. If you are looking for "pure breed" NPIP birds, expect to pay more. It really depends on your local market prices you are correct. Auctions are a good place to look if you aren't concerned with the breed. Just pay close attention to overall heath and quarantine new birds, no matter where you get them.
I am fortunate enough that my veterinarian buys every started goose I hatch for his poultry farm. He has a large organic poultry operation, and his flocks are all behind portable electric fences. The geese stop hawks and owls from taking his other poultry, and he is at near -0- loss now from hawk and owl.

Is $25 dollars too much to ask for a month old gosling?

 

[gander007]

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$ 25 dollars for a month old gosling sounds like a bit much but breeding and health would be the biggest factor and the local economy

 

[atmaclean]

One of the geese I hatched has turned out to have angel wing. I tried to wrap it tonight according to the video I watched using the Coban/vetwrap but it fell off just after I let him down. I watched the video several times. It is the one with a man showing how to wrap it using the actual chicken wing. Any suggestions? I hate to use duct tape...?