When Should My Geese Lay

[flockman]

This is good information. Can't wait for the eggs next spring. I agree that geese are attractive due to their eating grass. Plus they are just fun! My pair hatched the last week of April. Between being young and our usual winter weather I am thinking I won't see eggs till February. I plan to have the next box ready about Christmas just in case I have early bloomers.

 

[1MrsMagoo]

This is good information. Can't wait for the eggs next spring. I agree that geese are attractive due to their eating grass. Plus they are just fun! My pair hatched the last week of April. Between being young and our usual winter weather I am thinking I won't see eggs till February. I plan to have the next box ready about Christmas just in case I have early bloomers.

Sounds like a good game plan: Better to be prepared and check that box like a kid looking for Christmas presents than have her hide the first egg!
Last season was my first with geese, and I was VERY surprised to find my first egg the last day of November. However, I live in the deep south, so they start laying earlier here, from what I have been told.

Good luck to you. Hopefully, in a few short months we will all be over on the Hatching More Goslings thread chatting about what's due to hatch!

 

[flockman]

Trust me I will check like a kid on Christmas, long before they will actually come.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Being from Northern Indiana you will be starting the egg watch in February (with only a slight chance of January) daylight and climate have a ton to do with it as well.

 

[flockman]

I am not expecting any eggs till February. That is why I said that I would get the nest box in and ready around Christmas so that it was a month or 2 ahead.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

I will split the Sebbies up in Dec and expect first eggs in Jan with the rest to start anytime into February.

 

[Going Bhonkers]

I got my 8 American Buff geese (3 ganders 5 hens) at the end of April 2011. They started laying in February 2012 but not all at the same time. I had one start laying in February, another 2 lay in March, and a third started laying in April. So, I wouldn't look for eggs till February, but it could be later, or earlier depending on climate and how the winter weather goes, and the personalities of the geese involved. We have pretty mild winters, with only a week or two of snowy conditions (and sometimes not even that). It was about a month after they started breeding activity that I saw the first eggs.

About how many eggs did you get this season? And what breed of geese do you have?

 

[flyinghenfarm]

Geese are seasonal layers, spring of each year only. When they start will depend on where you live some as well.

We are in Florida and see first eggs in December from one breed, January from most of the other geese.

I live in Maryland. Is it smart for me to take away some of the eggs from the hens when they are sitting on them?
Thanks!!

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Are you talking chickens since you said hens?

We take all eggs away from our geese so they don't go broody, the ganders then don't have a nest and sitting goose to protect either.

 

[Habibs Hens]

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