Hello everybody,
My name is Simas, I'm a young-not so expierenced chicken (and for a little time-goose) breeder from Lithuania. I found article on Dewlap Toulouse incubation and hatching written by pete55, it was by far best info I've found on Toulouse egg incubation specialities. and that bring me here.
So, I have 15 Tououse and 61 Kholmogory (or Cholmogory) eggs in the incubators now for 6 days, tommorow will be candling day. nervous about that... I have lots of questions about incubation, but now it is too late, I did not start with dry incubation, the humidity is set to 50-55%. So the main reason I'm writing is to ask you about fertility - how to increase it without artificial insemination?
Our family of Toulouses is 1+2, of course one of the geese is more loved than the other. Last incubation was: 2 fertile of 9, 1 out of 2 died in the process of incubation, other one is still ok. Geese are one year old and laying pretty good. They have huge territory, sometimes they travel about 1km from their place, which is really not so good, when we live in the forest. there is 2 lakes and one little one for them to wash and swim and mate, good grass is also available. what can I do to increase the fertility? male is not fat. I feed them with: wheat, oat, corn and compound feed I use for chickens. I also add special shells and minerals.
I hope you will have time to answer my questions.
P.S. another question.. In what year I can identify my Toulouses if they are production standart or dewlap? next time I will attach you a photo.
