Would goose eggs have good fertility rate now?

[mrslb333]

I've been looking into getting some geese but decided to put it off till I can get eggs as I prefer to raise from hatchling. Just noticed on Ebay someone selling 4 Toulouse eggs they're very expensive so I was just wondering if they would be worth getting now or waiting till next year?

 

[jenjscott]

I've just been reading the other posts where some have quit breeding, but some have hatched up into October.It sounds like a hit or miss propsition, unless you (or they) have seen them breeding.

 

[gottsegnet]

Personally, I'd wait. They are much easier to raise in the spring when the temperatures are warmer and you can let the little fluff balls outside. And you don't have to worry too much if the heat lamp goes out at 2AM on the coldest night of the year and you don't find out until morning.

My goslings didn't need a heat lamp much at all last spring because we got them in May. I had it hooked up, but they rarely went under it.

 

[sillysister74]

Yeah I agree! It is hard to imagine fertile goose eggs when it is at a time geese are normally not laying. I am wondering though... how would geese lay in the southern hemisphere? If the spring down there is our fall, would the geese down there lay different cycles?

Nat trying to hijack the thread but thought it might pertain to the OP's question.