The African and Chinese goose thread!!

[DirtyAnkleAcres]

Hello everyone, we just added a trio of African Grey to our farm, we are new to geese but love them.....looking to learn more about them. here is a pic of one of girls....

 

[Miss Lydia]

Hello everyone, we just added a trio of African Grey to our farm, we are new to geese but love them.....looking to learn more about them. here is a pic of one of girls....

Very pretty goose and ducks too!!

 

[Going Bhonkers]

Hello everyone, we just added a trio of African Grey to our farm, we are new to geese but love them.....looking to learn more about them. here is a pic of one of girls....

Super cute! And I love your user name!!

 

[Going Bhonkers]

Coop Related:
I was reading some posts over on the chicken section and read about someone loosing birds due to a predator that dug under, and into the coop. Coincidentally, my mom had mentioned recently that we should've put some fencing on the floor of the grass area of our goose's run to serve as a barrier in case a predator tries to come in from underground. [My geese house looks like this: a concrete slab area that serves as the main "coop" and a fenced in run, which we call their 'patio or backyard'

, both are connected by the same roof]

Now I haven't seen any evidence that predators have been by the goose house, but I'm a little paranoid. Plus that chicken owner's experience was terrible.

So I dug up their backyard a little, and layed some fencing down. I spread some topsoil on top of it and layed pieces of sod that I bought from HD. Here's what it looked like [click to enlarge]


I fell short on the number of sod pieces that I should have gotten. Oops.
But then my mom came to the rescue, so NOW it looks like this:


I feel much more comfortable with that in place - though I know predators out there are sneaky (but I hope they haven't figured out that we have geese!)

 

[Miss Lydia]

Coop Related:
I was reading some posts over on the chicken section and read about someone loosing birds due to a predator that dug under, and into the coop. Coincidentally, my mom had mentioned recently that we should've put some fencing on the floor of the grass area of our goose's run to serve as a barrier in case a predator tries to come in from underground. [My geese house looks like this: a concrete slab area that serves as the main "coop" and a fenced in run, which we call their 'patio or backyard'

, both are connected by the same roof]

Now I haven't seen any evidence that predators have been by the goose house, but I'm a little paranoid. Plus that chicken owner's experience was terrible.

So I dug up their backyard a little, and layed some fencing down. I spread some topsoil on top of it and layed pieces of sod that I bought from HD. Here's what it looked like [click to enlarge]


I fell short on the number of sod pieces that I should have gotten. Oops.
But then my mom came to the rescue, so NOW it looks like this:


I feel much more comfortable with that in place - though I know predators out there are sneaky (but I hope they haven't figured out that we have geese!)

Oh they probably know, but you have done a great job of deterring them from getting to them. Great job

 

[DirtyAnkleAcres]

Does anyone sell their african geese's hatching eggs or goslings, if so what do you charge? I know it a lot depends on the area you live in, but i have no idea on what they generally go.....just trying to get it figured out before spring because we have people already interested in both. ALSO, i've read that geese are very good mothers, do they hatch most of their eggs or will i have to incubate them??

Thanks for all your kind comments on the picture of one of my african grey geese i posted

Goose-Newbie

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Egg price is based on bird quality. basic hatchery quality geese sell for $5-7 each(hatching eggs), while show quality birds selected properly to meet the breed standards sell for far more because of the time and investment put into the high quality breeding stock.

 

[NanaKat]

Quote:
Thanks Going Bhonkers.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

She is an African right? Our production Africans laid (last year Dec 2011) right into mid to late spring, every other to every three days like clockwork. If i didnt take the egg she would start trying to sit. Hope this helps some.

 

[NanaKat]

She is an African right? Our production Africans laid (last year Dec 2011) right into mid to late spring, every other to every three days like clockwork. If i didnt take the egg she would start trying to sit. Hope this helps some.

Ninya is a white chinese, but she is doing everything you have described. Right now she is burying the ggs in the hay and I'm having to dig them out.