Umm, I'm not sure whats going on here?!

[Cottage Rose]

Anybody have any breeding activity going on?
Mind you I live in the north not the south (I wish!).
Over the last couple weeks I've been noticing some of my
geese have been breeding and the ganders fighting through
the fences.
This week my ganders have been getting hissy toward me.
I'm thinking did I miss winter and is this spring?!?

Now I'm getting eggs from 2 different pens and NO I'm not
going to incubate them!
There's no way I'm going to raise goslings in the winter.
Anyhoo...I'm finding this all very strange.
Oh yah, and, I have one Muscovy Duck thats laying now too.
What the heck?!?

Pic from today.
Goose eggs on the left, duck eggs on the right...

 

[pips&peeps]

My ganders have been getting a little fussy too. I hope I don't start seeing eggs laying around......

 

[cap1717]

Well. . . maybe a comment from the desert southwest is not applicable, but I once had a goose who laid an egg a day for over a year. . . . wierdest thing. . . the gander was "uninterested", so no babies, either. . . . .

 

[goosedragon]

Quote:
Are they getting any additional light that they were not getting before? Like if you work during the day and are now comming home about sunset and turning on artifical lights to do your chores, they might think the days are getting longer rather than shorter. LONGER DAYS KICK OFF BREEDING BEHAVIOR in waterfowl! I know it sounds far fetched and I can't quote a reference, but that is also one of the reasons not to use heat LIGHTs to keep them warm in the winter. Beleive me or not, they are your birds.

 

[Cottage Rose]

Nope.
No lights on
and getting dark here earlier and earlier. yuk.

 

[AHappychick]

well seems as though you are in a bind, let me help you out I can take those wonderful eggs off your hands and put them in a nice bator

 

[slightlyscrambled]

YES!! I have one embden mix that has laid 18 eggs so far, she lays every other day. And now another started laying yesterday. The boys get all "excited" when they are in their little pool. I dont want any goslings till spring so...... eggs go to morning breakfast. I certainly hope Ginger and Gretel dont plan on laying eggs all winter?!

 

[feathersandfluff]

Must Be From All The Ufo's Flying Overhead

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

I have the same thing with my MUSCOVIES! It was 28 degrees last night and they were breeding up a storm this past weekend...

 

[TennesseeTruly]

My Calls and my Pekins are breeding up a storm, too. My male Sebbie's only 7 months old, I'm not seeing any breeding behavior but I am seeing major dominant behavior in him! WOW WOW WOW!

Laurie