WTH! HOW CAN THIS BE?

[Flockandfowl46]

Guess it's just a home for freaks...

 

[townchicks]

Well, I know nothing about geese, so I don't know if they're too young, but here's a possible scenario I've thought of. Raccoon comes around, finds an egg that a duck laid while out free ranging. Raccoon picks up the egg, and carries it with him and decides to go into the goose pen and check them out. Puts down the egg, while trying to get to the geese, something disturbs him and he leaves, w/o the egg. Does it look like a duck egg? Just a thought.

 

[Flockandfowl46]

Hehe glad your trying to make me feel better but coin can't get in I found the egg inside locked closed pen this morning so how long did it take you to play that out? LOVE IT! my brain would be smoking @townchicks

 

[townchicks]

Not long. Raccoons are always at the back of my mind since I got chickens. I was just looking at the picture of your setup, and wondered if there was a top on it, so, naturally, I picture a raccoon climbing in. So cool if it really was your goose. I guess the only way to know, is if she lays another.

 

[Miss Lydia]

When my goose and ganders two gosling got around 5 months old my gander [not natural farther to the goslings] Began mating with the female, which my adult goose was 9 months old before he bred her so I was pretty surprised but she was receptive too. Well she didn't begin to lay until she was 8 months old but I have read many times on here that Chinese will lay in the fall and spring so it's not uncommon for this breed. Maybe for this young but not time of year. We use to have more members who had Chinese I miss them.

 

[Flockandfowl46]

Thx @Miss Lydia more the answer I was hoping for

 

[The goose girl]

There was a thread a while back regarding this issue, and apparently it's not unheard of that Chinese geese start laying at 3-4-5 months: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/conflicting-info-at-what-age-do-geese-lay-eggs.304304/

 

[Gray Farms]

4.5 months is kinda young to start laying but its not impossible. Especially for Chinese, as they are one of the most prolific laying breeds of geese.

 

[Flockandfowl46]

Ty @Gray Farms

 

[duckduckgose]

cool i have 2 chinese geese coming up 2 years no eggs yet