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LTygress said:
YUP!

I ordered three hatching eggs last year. But the lady's son died soon after I sent payment. When she got back into town, the geese had stopped laying. I couldn't ask for my money back from someone who just lost their SON. So I told her hold on to it, and we'd see about later.


Then at the end of January, having forgotten about them, I got a call from her out of the blue asking if I still wanted them because breeding season was coming up. OF COURSE I SAID YES! They were already paid for, anyway. LOL!


She wrote me back last weekend and said the geese are indeed breeding and laying, but it's freezing up there, and she doesn't want to send me frozen eggs. She plans to hatch out the first few GOOD eggs, to make sure "no one is shooting blanks". Then she plans to send me FIVE OR SIX eggs, instead of just the three, because I waited so long for them!


I plan to have mine DNA sexed in hopes of a breeding trio, and then abmaddox will be taking the others. But I'm ALSO putting myself on a waiting list for non-APA saddle-back sebbies! I saw them on the goose forums in the Sebbie pic thread, and fell in LOVE! The lady won't take orders for goslings until March 1st, but I set my phone up to alert me FIRST THING THAT DAY, so I can get on that waiting list!
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How much is the DNA testing?
 
carcar80 said:
@LTygress - do you just throw eggs in as you get them? Jut curious.
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Yep. I've got eggs going in almost every day, and eggs hatching almost every day. It can get nerve-wracking when the incubators are in your BEDROOM, and the really loud chicks want to hatch at 2am. But I think I've learned to block it out and sleep right through it anyway.

But it DOES seem to help older chicks get along with younger ones in their brooder/grow out pen, if the older ones are used to new ones always coming in.
 
abmaddox1981 said:
How much is the DNA testing?
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It's $17 per bird. But I will probably get yours DNA sexed too, because there's no point in doing just three, and finding out they're all females or something, and have to get the others done anyway to find a gander!
 
LTygress said:
Yep. I've got eggs going in almost every day, and eggs hatching almost every day. It can get nerve-wracking when the incubators are in your BEDROOM, and the really loud chicks want to hatch at 2am. But I think I've learned to block it out and sleep right through it anyway.


But it DOES seem to help older chicks get along with younger ones in their brooder/grow out pen, if the older ones are used to new ones always coming in.
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Interesting angle. I'm always so bent on getting everything "together" for a specific set day!
 
abmaddox1981 said:
Want me to go halfsies?
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Let's wait until the goslings actually hatch first. They say Goose eggs have a MUCH lower hatch rate after being shipped than chicken eggs. But the lady who has the saddlebacks will ONLY ship goslings, not eggs. And THAT lady requires a minimum of 3-4 for warmth during shipment. So I'm looking at what, 8-10 POSSIBLE goslings? But then if none hatch, it may be less.

So we'll wait until then, before we decide. :)
 
carcar80 said:
Interesting angle. I'm always so bent on getting everything "together" for a specific set day!
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Now that I fried the second incubator, I have no choice but to start gathering eggs to set on the same day. The only ones I'll probably do are EE's and Silkies. I SHOULD be able to get a second incubator on Monday, but that means I'll probably have about 10 eggs ready to go into it when it arrives! LOL!
 
OMG, GUESS WHO WE JUST FOUND!!!

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