Toulouse Geese Thread

[aoxa]

2 realistically maybe 3, but with low fertility issues lower ratios is better.

These are our first dewlaps, but they are a calm/quiet breed like the sebastopols and those ganders are all bluff. We have 1 gander during breeding season I watch a little more. Its all about common sense when dealing with them. Dont corner, dont turn your back (during breeding season) and walk with a purpose around them. 

Great advice thanks

Would you pen them during breeding season? Sorry for all the questions. I don't have any other geese, so cross breeding is not an issue.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

if you dont have another breed, then no same as normal for you with the trio. We pen in breeding yards to keep the colored sebastopols from the whites, and the now the dewlaps from the sebbies. lots of temp fencing Jan-Jun, then it all gets taken down and they pasture together again. If you were to add say grey dewlap then i would keep them apart during season.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I have an update on Missy our Toulouse goose, she has been with us 7 weeks now and Finally our gander is seeing her with affection. I let the duckling out the other day so she could hang out with the other younger ducks, and he has ignored her completely and this is the duckling he last raised and was so attached to. She doesn't act like she recognizes him either. So another step in the love story of Sammy and Missy. Now the next test will be letting him be around Alice the Muscovy who hatched him and then became his mate so to speak. I will wait awhile for that one though. Sammy and Missy walk about together and if I see one I see the other.

 

[Iain Utah]

That's awesome, Lydia!!

 

[Miss Lydia]

That's awesome, Lydia!!

Thanks Iain, I think so too.

 

[aoxa]

Thanks Iain, I think so too. 

We need a picture of them together

 

[Miss Lydia]

We need a picture of them together

I'll work on that.

 

[Reyvaughn]

A couple of things....

I think I got the genders figured on my trio! Two are obviously alike in stature and I can hear a distinct difference in one's voice! I have two ganders and a single goose. My goose has a very small (about the size of a pencil eraser) white dot on her chin, too. Is that a common thing? Anyways, I will be keeping Beau, the one I always figured was a boy and the other is going to be Christmas dinner. Yes, I bought them for the sole purpose of meat production and the first pair was to be my pets/breeders.

I discovered my goose has a limp yesterday. No visible wounds and no inflammation. While I was checking her, Christmas Dinner (he has been named accordingly) was hissing at me like crazy. I put the goose back in their yard when I was done checking her and I caught Xmas Dinner to show him I wasn't afraid of him. I carried him around for a couple of minutes and then returned him to the yard. Not sure why I did it if I am going to be eating him... He's always been the aloof one of the bunch. Beau was the one that would climb up on my lap and sleep on my thigh as a gosling.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Reyvaughn if there is any doubt at all on their genders DNA samples for gender ID is a good bet to have done so you dont end up with two of the same gender when you are hoping for a breeding pair.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Sorry I get carried away when it comes to my geese, They are so cute together.