Toulouse & Embdens sitting on same nest?

rubber duk

In the Brooder
7 Years
Jul 27, 2012
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Hi all,
I've been keeping geese for many years in France & UK.

Now in France last year I bought a pair of 18 month old Embdens, goose and gander. Also a pair of year old female Toulouse. They seemed to get on well although the gander took more to the Toulouse for about 6 months.
More recently he's served all 3!
However, before I had them my previous geese made separate nests.
These 3 new geese use the same shed & nest (made by the Toulouse) for laying although there's another shed closeby also with straw etc. They all inspected it but it remains unused.

My questions ............................. is this normal as I think there will be too many eggs in it when they stop laying, at the moment 12, I have already taken out 10!!
Also the Embden only started laying yesterday week whereas the both the Toulouse made the nest & started 3 weeks ago?

Should I take out the Embdens' eggs daily & put her in the other shed, stopping her from getting in the Toulouse shed?

Finally does anyone know when the Gander is no longer needed in the process, as he's got very aggressive towards them all?

Any advice or viewpoint gratefully received!
 
Hi Rubber duk, well basically, a gander shouldn´t be aggressive to the geese.(Normally he´ll stay with his goose/geese the whole process). I don´t know why this would happen. Geese tend to like to be in pairs, but often you can keep one gander to a number of geese.
Geese sharing nests generally isn´t a good idea, as they lose eggs, steal eggs, eggs roll away, etc, and the chances aren´t very good for hatching out gozzies. some succeed, though. I hope this was of some help.
 

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