Toulouse Geese Thread

[Miss Lydia]

Mine often look like they put on those mud beauty masks! Really wet, wet early spring so far. The water buckets have a good layer of muck at the bottom every day.
They also dig and pull up some type of root to eat. Could be clover roots, not sure.

I put an empty plastic coffee can out for them. Was a riot to watch, especially when the wind would move the can after they'd just about loose interest...

I bet that was funny to watch I'll have to put out a few coffee cans for them to play with.

 

[clmschke]

LOL..dirt. LOL mud.
Last Spring I got a notion to make myself one of those ponds with the liner in it, fill it with water, get a pump, landscape it etc. I started digging and took a break for about a week to get dimensions on the liner. In that time, it rained and the hole filled with water. Now as you see from these goslings and ducks, they just LOVED it! Still do. They go into every day and root around the bottom for more goo and just play in it.

 

[Miss Lydia]

LOL..dirt. LOL mud.
Last Spring I got a notion to make myself one of those ponds with the liner in it, fill it with water, get a pump, landscape it etc. I started digging and took a break for about a week to get dimensions on the liner. In that time, it rained and the hole filled with water. Now as you see from these goslings and ducks, they just LOVED it! Still do. They go into every day and root around the bottom for more goo and just play in it.

So they think you made them a nice big mud hole.

lol

 

[hotcurltr]

Hi everyone. You all seem to be a little perkier w/ spring. I have a question that I have asked several times before and can never get an answer. Is there a way to tell male from female in adult toulouse,besides dna. I know about vent sexing, but that seems dangerous to me if u don't know what you're doing.

 

[subhanalah]

Hi everyone.  You all seem to be a little perkier w/ spring.  I have a question that I have asked several times before and can never get an answer.  Is there a way to tell male from female in adult toulouse,besides dna.  I know about vent sexing, but that seems dangerous to me if u don't know what you're doing.

With clear pictures, @servpolice is pretty good at determining gender.

 

[ermer124]

After looking at all the unbearably cute pictures, I'm beginning to wonder if its normal that my gooses beak isn't as bright orange as the others....could this be a nutritional or health problem or is that normal?

 

[Alaskan Dragonfly]

Hi everyone. You all seem to be a little perkier w/ spring. I have a question that I have asked several times before and can never get an answer. Is there a way to tell male from female in adult toulouse,besides dna. I know about vent sexing, but that seems dangerous to me if u don't know what you're doing.

USUALLY the honk is reliable. The gander has the high-pitched trumpet and the goose has the low-pitched grunt. It has been true in every goose I've been up close with. Ganders also tend to hold their neck more vertical with their head much higher.

 

[clmschke]

And the lobes under the belly.
Buddy the loud-mouth instigator is in front of his merry band of mayhem here. Notice little lobes.

Molly is followed by her kids, Albus and Adele. Both of them are Toulouse/African cross. Molly has lobes under her belly. Notice she walks with her neck pretty close to her body. Like her daughter in back of her. Albus to the rear has his more extended. He walks more upright than Buddy, but I think it's due to his African genetic input.That is also how Albus and Adele have mottled beaks.

 

[Tsumo]

Yay got 3 goose eggs yesterday to incubate can't wait! Hope they all hatch!!

 

[subhanalah]

Yay got 3 goose eggs yesterday to incubate can't wait! Hope they all hatch!!

we too! Can't wait for pictures! It's gonna be a looong month for you!