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Post by bobclark on Feb 7, 2006 16:33:38 GMT -5
my two african geese are starting to lay with plenty of cold weather ahead. will she keep them from freezing even before she starts to set?
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Post by Kathy on Feb 7, 2006 17:05:22 GMT -5
my two african geese are starting to lay with plenty of cold weather ahead. will she keep them from freezing even before she starts to set? Depends on where she's laying them. My American Buffs started laying one year in late Jan which is really weird since this was in WI. To my surprise they had 6 of the cutest goslings hatch out successfully from those cool season eggs!  They layed in what I call a hay house-stacked bales(3 high) with a sheet metal top. No other heat beyond the insulating qualities of the hay and the bedding/ fluff they buried the eggs under. Just make sure they have plenty of good, dry bedding to work with-those darn geese are pretty good at survival techniques of their potential offspring. Bob, it sounds like your place is going to be full of new poultry come spring!! ;D |
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Post by bobclark on Feb 7, 2006 17:30:15 GMT -5
I have the geese ,willbe getting the marans andalso have a trio of white scoveys.
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Post by Kathy on Feb 7, 2006 17:43:23 GMT -5
Ahh musvovey's- I had over 20 adults and lordy did they breed well! ;D I had one hen who produced and successfully raised 94 ducklings in one season!!  She was a keeper for sure! She was the only duck that I'd ever seen successfully hatch out a full double layer of eggs! Mine were white/blacks, white/blues and a few chocolates.  |
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Post by bobclark on Feb 8, 2006 11:48:47 GMT -5
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Post by bobclark on Feb 8, 2006 11:49:15 GMT -5
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Post by Kathy on Feb 8, 2006 11:54:33 GMT -5
Thanks bob for the pics-today I'm really missing the farm and seeing critters helps!  |
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Post by bbird on Feb 8, 2006 16:00:04 GMT -5
Oh man Bob, you have an ideal place for your geese. Just beautiful! I've downsized on our geese, and only have 2 female and 1 male toulouse. We are all wooded here, and because we don't keep them penned they migrate to our front steps to hang out, lol. Not the ideal place when you actually have to go out in public with clean shoes on.  We have a large creek and a pond down at the bottom of our property, but they don't go down there without someone walking them down. We try and take them down a few times a week and letting them swim and play, but as soon as we start walking back up the hill they scramble like mad out of the water and follow us back up to the house. The only time one of them ventured down there by themselves is when we had a momma with 8 goslings, and she would take the baby's down twice a day like timework and let the baby's swim. One day she didn't come back with them. No signs of any of them, so I have a feeling the cougar got em.  So, now I don't complain about them hanging out at the house. During the summer they have a pen on the side of the barn so I can have a nicer looking yard, and garden, lol. |
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Post by bobclark on Feb 8, 2006 21:39:08 GMT -5
we have 10ac. of just yard that i mow with 2 ponds.i would like a fence to keep them off the road.other than that it would be cool to have 30 or40 breeding females.but i dont know what I would do with all the babys
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Post by bobclark on Feb 11, 2006 18:32:57 GMT -5
she layed 3 eggs and quit
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Post by Kathy on Feb 11, 2006 22:03:05 GMT -5
she layed 3 eggs and quit Maybe she just got the news that the groundhog saw it's shadow. Seriously, maybe they have some inner bio clock(light sensitive) that kicks in the hormones needed for laying and she had a false start.  |
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Post by bobclark on Feb 12, 2006 12:42:50 GMT -5
got another one today. got me to thinking.yea i know ,not always a good thing.
as it is too cold here to have her set this soon. and as I dont have an incubator . i would be more than happy to save the eggs for someone to incubate if they would stand for the shipping cost.
I would need schooled in the ways of holding fertile eggs and the shipping requirements
any takers?
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