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

[toletiquesbysam]

Cottage Rose are these from your Sebbies???

 

[jojo@rolling acres farm]

My Sebbies and Roman's have been laying off and on for the last two weeks. What a weird year...

 

[Mrs. Turbo]

mine are also breeding and pulling feathers out

 

[slightlyscrambled]

jojo, I think you tried to help me get geese this summer, when my gander was killled. The new girls I got are the ones laying now. I just wanted to say thanks for your offer to help!
sorry to hi-jack!

 

[Cottage Rose]

Mrs. Turbo :

mine are also breeding and pulling feathers out

Yah, my Souffle who has an extra, extra poofy breast
feathering is suddenly looking rather thinned out.

More eggs this morning.
Sorry I don't sell hatching eggs.
We're making giant deviled eggs!

 

[goosedragon]

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Yah, my Souffle who has an extra, extra poofy breast
feathering is suddenly looking rather thinned out.

More eggs this morning.
Sorry I don't sell hatching eggs.
We're making giant deviled eggs!

Yep how long do you boil a goose egg? I overcooked mine, deviled them anyway and took them to a pinic. Blew peoples' minds to see those huge things on a plate! I only got rid of one serving so brought them home and served back to the flock( after mashing of course!)

 

[slightlyscrambled]

oh I hadn't thought of that, might be kind of fun! really big deviled eggs for Halloween!!

 

[vicki2x2]

Hmmmm, I think I read about this on a goose list last year. Some geese will lay in the fall, but if allowed to set or if the eggs are incubated, the goslings are often not very healthy. Now, this is just what I read, not from first hand experience. Someone had tried to hatch some out, two died, and one lived but was very fragile, had a hard time walking, weak, etc. Others were saying this happened with fall hatches due to the depletion of calcium and/or vitamins (can't remember exactly) in the parents from breeding season.

 

[fowltemptress]

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This is a question I'm curious about.

 

[Cottage Rose]

About 20 minutes to hard boil a goose egg but that would depend on size. Extra large ones might take 25 minutes.
My husband had some goose eggs for breakfast this morning.