hello fellow chicken keepers me and my wife have just begun our chicken keeping journey, so far we have 4 australorps and 2 geese, and we have 15 more chickens coming in june im going to attempt to build a carolina inspired coop and am a bit nervous because im a dental assistant by trade and not...
Hello everyone, I'm hoping to build a carolina inspired coop for my chickens 8x6hen house with an inclosed run all together 8'x30', so far we have 4 australorps and 2 gosling we have 15 more chickens on the way in June, I built this outdoor area for them temporarily while we build our new coop...
I’ve hatched 9 goose eggs and upon removing shells I’ve noticed a few have this green goo inside them. Any thoughts on what this is? Babes are all doing ok so far. Less than 24hrs old.
(1) I am not new to chickens, I actually new of this forum in 2011 when I first started with my backyard chickens. Since I have acquired a couple of goslings.
(2) I have zero chickens but two goslings.
(3) Chinese/African brown
(4) My goslings are actually being raised as pets but if one or...
Hello. I have a question for those who hatch a more significant amount of chicks/ducklings/goslings. What brand of incubator do you use? I am interested in purchasing an incubator that can hold 100+ eggs, I'm curious about what brand works for you guys. Second, what style of brooder do you have...
Greetings from Northwest Washington. My I have a Chinese water goose she's brown and she's my first goose! This is her first year laying eggs and she started in December. I was pretty concerned and I started taking her eggs away thinking it was too early for her to hatch goslings considering the...
Hello!
I’m planning on buying a huge new flock of chickens from McMurray and want to add a guard goose. We have terrible predators (I’m getting poultry netting for those forsaken hawks but we also have rats and other predators) and I think it’s a great solution until I get LGDs. Since I’m...
Im looking for a gosling or 2 to add to my flock. My gosling died protecting my flock from a raccoon. Im in ohio and am willing to travel a couple of hours to get one. Id prefer a african brown gosling but I am open to different breeds.
Hello! So we have two Embdens that we got as guard geese for our flock of 16 chickens. We have seven chickens that are six months old and nine chickens that are two and a half months old. The guard geese are not quite two months old.
As of the last week the guard geese are chasing the chickens...
Good day everyone. I have seven white chinese geese (swan geese) goslings available. I am located near Visalia, CA. Asking $30 each gosling OBO. Let me know if you are interested.
I’m curious how accurate people have found Metzers sexed goslings. I order 2 females (Buff and a a Toulouse) and one is literally 3 times the size of the other one (Buff is the larger gosling) - I have weighed them a few times. The Toulouse is doing well and steadily growing but from my...
Hello! I have been wanting to sell hatching eggs, chick / ducklings / goslings and adult poultry for a while now. I have 3 incubators,
Farm Innovators Pro Series Circulated Air Incubator with Automatic Egg Turner, 4250,
Little Giant Still-Air Incubator, 9300, and a salinova mini incubator. I am...
Ok, so I have a beautiful African goose named Nakira. She has been dutifully sitting on a clutch of 13 for about 33 days. At around day 21 a rouge chicken egg hatched and i found the poor chick dead in the nest.
Then, about a week ago we had a rotten egg explosion. I cleaned up as best i...
Hello everyone. Just a quick question. We gave a wild gosling (Egyptian Goose) coming into the centre this afternoon. I was just wondering is we could feed her gamebird starter instead of chick feed? We’ve used chick feed before but never had success with wild ducklings on chick starter. (Our...
I FINALLY got 8 geese from the hatchery I was trying to order through, but due to some issues they were having this year, I ended up getting a mixed batch instead of a single breed. I think we got 2 embdens, a white chinese, and the rest either africans or toulouse. I'm very new to geese, so I...
Hi everyone. I’m located near Buffalo NY and am looking for Toulouse Dewlap Goslings or fertile eggs. Please reach out to me if you have anything available. I’m willing to pay to ship either goslings or eggs, or travel.
Thank you!
Christina
1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the gosling seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.). Chinese geese, smaller than the others - 10 goslings total - weight is ideal for size
2) What is the behavior, exactly. Found this morning around 7am lethargic, wouldn’t walk out of pen...