Toulouse Geese Thread

[CelticOaksFarm]

Good Monday morning. Hope everyone is staying warm. Burr it's cold here in Newnan.
I'm looking for a little preparatory advice. I have goslings on order. Day olds. I've raised day old chicks but never goslings. Is the raising of them pretty much the same as the chicks? Any advice is appreciated.

Jen

Geese need less heat than chicks, but give the same warning signs of being too hot as chick do. Panting, moving far away from the heat source.

They will splash in any available water source you give them so be ready to clean the brooder often for first few weeks.

We keep fod and water with all waterfowl from day 1 to 3-4 weeks old. By 4 weeks old no food and water over night at all for any reason. They get it back in the morning and have it all day to eat from as they wish while out on grass all day as well. At night they go back to the stall to sleep.

Grazing time starts at 3 days of age, and they get outside time daily all day as long as we arent having a storm.

 

[kristen2678]

My yearling dewlap toulouse starting laying about a month ago. Like clock work she would lay every other day. I've seen nothing for nearly a week now. Is this "normal" ? Thanks.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

no, but nothing is normal with the weather it seems either. if you moved her house, changed the bedding or had yo yo weather it could stop her laying.

she could be egg bound too, and you do need to check her to make sure she isnt, but is likely one of the above listed reasons.

if she started laying a month ago, laid every other like clock work she has laid roughly 15 eggs. Dewlaps dont lay lots of eggs anyways and she might just be done for her first year as well.

 

[Going Bhonkers]

no, but nothing is normal with the weather it seems either. if you moved her house, changed the bedding or had yo yo weather it could stop her laying.

she could be egg bound too, and you do need to check her to make sure she isnt, but is likely one of the above listed reasons.

if she started laying a month ago, laid every other like clock work she has laid roughly 15 eggs. Dewlaps dont lay lots of eggs anyways and she might just be done for her first year as well.

How can you check if a goose is egg bound?

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

pick them up and feel along the abdomen (the same you check a chicken) you can feel if they are bloated, hard or soft and normal. This is why i stress it is important to handle and check your birds monthly so they and you are use to it and know normal from not. It is best to know your birds completely verses relying on a Vet to do and or fix everything, and some dont haveVets available.

 

[gryeyes]

Anybody else watching "Vikings" on the History Channel?

NICE flock of utility Toulouse geese in the monastery the Vikings plundered....

Perhaps a bit more historically accurate than the Delaware chickens in the first episode?

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

lol gryeyes I was thinking the same thing

 

[Miss Lydia]

Just had to post and brag on my girl Missy, she laid egg number 31 this morning, she laid 2 soft shell eggs a day apart a couple weeks ago [that had me worried] and after taking a few days off started back laying again. She is so precious.

 

[Bettacreek]

I have toulouse eggs in the mail now. The guy with the pair never contacted me back after I said yes to his trade, lol. Ah well, hopefully these eggs give me a pair next year.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I have toulouse eggs in the mail now. The guy with the pair never contacted me back after I said yes to his trade, lol. Ah well, hopefully these eggs give me a pair next year.

Hope so too.