Urgent help needed with goslings

[RealMotherGoose]

If your temperatures are warm enough, pen the goslings close to her during the day. She should start responding to their sounds and them to her vocalizations.

We will do that. It's plenty warm here in Texas for them to be out. Was raining earlier so didnt move them to the outdoor pen, but we will tomorrow for sure. Thank you!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Just make sure your pen is very secure goslings need a lot of protection from predators.

 

[Purple_grape84]

Will this same strategy, bring Gosling's near day after day, work with a non- broody goose. When I got my adult Toulouse pair 25 days ago they came with 11 eggs. I put then in the incubator and 6 have made it this far. I would like to be able to put the family back together. She is still laying eggs.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I'd do a pen where adults are on one side goslings on the other introduce that way so adults get to see and hear the babies. They will eventually accept them. She's still laying but not brooding? Geese love babies so shouldn't take them long to fall in love with the goslings.

 

[Purple_grape84]

I'd do a pen where adults are on one side goslings on the other introduce that way so adults get to see and hear the babies. They will eventually accept them. She's still laying but not brooding? Geese love babies so shouldn't take them long to fall in love with the goslings.

Thanks for the suggestion. Yes, she is still laying every 2-3days. She stopped laying for about 2weeks when we first got them, but she is back to laying now, hiding them under the straw. I am removing them whenever I find them though because I leave the door to their enclosure open when they are free ranging and the dogs tried to walk off with one (dropped it in the middle of the field, guess it was too big).

 

[Miss Lydia]

Best she doesn't have eggs anyway if you want her to take to the goslings. Once My goose fell in love with the two goslings I brought home for her, her mate was in love too.

 

[RealMotherGoose]

No luck with DeeDee Goose accepting the goslings yet. I took her eggs away and removed her nest last night, and we put her up in our small coop for the night. She was still sitting on the empty "nest" today (not as much), so I put a bag of soil on top. Now she's just sitting right next to it. But she isn't broody or protective of it anymore. She normally attacks me if I get near her nest, but now she's letting me approach and pet her and just seems sad.
I've let the goslings out near her twice today, and she mostly ignores them and walks the other way. The only slight glimmer of hope I had was when the goslings were startled by something and took off running across the yard, she honked and flew after them, but stopped a few feet away and ignored them again.

Ahhhh, I will keep trying. My poor DeeDee.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Bless her heart it takes a bit of time. My goose wants to adopt my Runner ducklings but she scares them half to death so it will never happen. But I believe Dee Dee will accept your goslings just give her time.

 

[RealMotherGoose]

It's been 2 weeks now and DeeDee Goose still has not become attached to the goslings/ducklings. We have them in an outdoor run (it's hot here) where she can see them all day, and sometimes approaches to investigate, but not much more.
I put her in the run with them when she was nosing around near it, and she only ran away from them (like she runs away from our chickens).
She is a human imprinted goose who mostly hangs out with the dogs and our giant tortoises. I'm guessing she isnt interested in having any goose buddies. If she never attaches to any of these, I will probably just collect any eggs she lays and end her broody nesting in the future.

 

[Miss Lydia]

That maybe the reason she isn't interested since he was never around water fowl of any kind. I am sorry I hope you will enjoy the gosling though.