Thank the Good Lord that you are cancer free now. That is wonderful. I have had ducks breed that were siblings before and all was well. I am not sure how it works though with Geese. I pray that the babies hatch out and that all is well with them. Your Goose is a really pretty one! I bet she will have beautiful babies.born may 2020
spring 21 too young
spring 22 , and 23, i was not sure, and I am still not sure, if my gander and goose are perhaps brother and sister. the local breeder I bought them from as goslings moved away less than a year after I got them. There was no way to contact him anymore, and I wasn’t sure I trusted him anyway because
Originally, I got three goslings from him, (pilgrims are auto sexing,) so I got one male and two females or so we thought, until one of the gray geese turned out to be gander( Pilgrim Gander should be white but this one looked exactly like a female pilgrim ) so I rehomed him as didn’t want two ganders, they were fighting.
therefore i don’t know the history of the parents of my geese - if maybe they could have been brother and sister as well?
But that’s the point- I don’t know. the local breeder mentioned he had several “breeding pens” so I am assuming he only put certain birds together that were not siblings … i hope.
So I’ve been playing it safe and not letting her hatch any. my plan was to buy another female, pilgrim gosling , and then when she’s grown , let her eggs be the ones to hatch out instead. I even had one already prepaid for along with four ducklings last year when I pre-ordered from metzer late summer, shortly before I found out I had endometrial cancer, and needed surgery. So I canceled the order, no ducklings or gosling for me this year.
but now I am cancer free hallelujah! However, it’s too late ( and expensive anyway) to get a gosling from Metzer., and here is my Trudy goose, who lays her fertile eggs, and hopes to be a mom someday soon…
I figure since I don’t know their parents history, and I’ll never find out if there’s going to be any problems with her babies , unless we try hatching some.
they will hopefully be just fine!! and I need at least one female so I can keep her. the others will go to new homes.
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