Think she'll notice?

[mominoz]

I got my goose to set 5 Runner duck eggs! She is taking care of them . I got 4 Penciled runner eggs and One Gray Runner egg from my ducks I got from Holderreads , show stock....should be interesting. I have 2 gooses and 2 ganders that are tufted Buffs from Metzer. They are only a year old, but since she wanted to set ,I wasn't sure I wanted the goslings this year but I only have 3 runners of each color ,so I wanted more.. It's my first "interspecies" setting attempt

Course then the question whether to let the geese raise them or separate them and put them next to the ducks..... so they may be accepted ....hhmmmm

 

[CoopCrazy]

I think they should be fine ...

 

[shelleyd2008]

The goose should be fine raising the ducklings, they are waterfowl after all

Just be sure to watch her since she is a 'new mother' to make sure she is caring for the babies. I have embdens, 1 female and 2 males. The female and 1 male I got about 5 or 6 weeks ago. Apparently the goose had either been on a nest or had had goslings when she was sold, since she hasn't laid one egg since I got her. However she is now the babysitter of my goslings whenever they are in their outside pen. I had a bantam hen that had hatched 2 ducklings, her and her 'babies' were in a small tractor in the yard. If the goslings weren't in their pen, the babysitter would hang out by the bantam hen's pen, because she heard the ducklings peeping

Geese are pretty easy-going it seems, babies are babies to them

ETA: I sold the bantam's ducklings this past weekend, and the babysitter was hanging out by their cage the whole time after I took them from their 'mama', before we left for the sale...she was hissing at anyone and anything that came near 'her' babies, just like she would if they were hers.