babies!!!!!!!!!!!

18 years ago

This evening while cleaning the goose barn I noticed that they pulled down a big pile of hay on top of their nest. I picked up the pile to spread it around and found 2 goose eggs!!!! OMG it's December!! The two, which were born in May, live in a 10x10 barn by themselves. I took two bales of hay and squared off the corner, dumped pine shaving on the floor and put hay on top. Every evening after work I go in and pick up all their poop (and frozen pee). I replace the hay I remove from their "nest" with fresh hay and once a week take out some shaving and add clean. The barn is pretyy cozy, they have clean water (in a heated bucket) every night, with fresh food a scoop of grain with a handful of nice green second cut hay (all the grass is covered with about 2 feet of snow). I would like them to raise their own babies but what are the chances the eggs will hatch? I spoke with the person I purchased them from who said to just make sure the eggs are kept under the hay and warm, when she is done laying she will sit on them. Should I mark them to know which ones were first.

As you can see I have no idea what to do, I just know I would like to have the pair raise them theirselves. We weren't sure if they were Benny and June or Benny and Benny or June and June, now we know. A little help please!!!!

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backlanelady
18 years ago
You might still have a June and June. A female doesn't need a male to lay the eggs...but they do to make them fertile.
It sounds like you take very good care of your geese. If the nest stays clean, don't bother it. Once they start sitting on the eggs they shouldn't poop in it.
Good Luck! Carrie
buckeye_brian
18 years ago
Will you adopt me? The care you are providing for your geese is amazing! It is always great to hear about good people caring properly for their animals!

KUDOS!

Merry CHRISTmas

Brian
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laturcotte1
Original Author
18 years ago
Soooo you are saying it could take years for me to find out if I have a male & female of 2 females! :) I know I could have them sexed it's just not worth the stress. This is kind of exciting.

Should I wait 30 days and if they haven't hatched throw them away? Lets say they do hatch do I have to do anything with them? I know what to do with them when they are 3 weeks old but before that I'm not sure. Will they be warm enough? do they start eating crumbles right away? Are Roman Tufted good parents? They don't seem to be sitting on the "nest" but the eggs sure are buried. They aren't pooping on the hay either, everywhere else but not on the hay. Oh, the other question is, if they are male and female how old are they when they mate, these two are only 7 months old?

They loved me up until about 1 week or so ago. I noticed if they could get my hands they would bite me, so I started to remove my gloves, thinking it was that and they still bite me. They never, ever did that before. They would love to eat dandelions from my hands now I hold the hay and they take the finger with it. When they do that I bring my face quickly to theirs and yell NO, they look at me like I've flipped and make this "cooing" sound but they come right back again. Must be in the protective mode. When I leave they fly after me sometimes over the fence just like when I was the mom, a little fickled if you ask me.

This is very exciting. Thank you for all your help. If I ever get more geese they will be Pilgrim!!
laturcotte1
Original Author
18 years ago
Well everyone I have 3 eggs now. She is now sitting on the nest, but today it was about 43 degrees and I put some water in a small pool outside and they played in it for a while and back in she went.

BUT while they were playing the one I call Benny started to get a little rough, started biting her and pulled at her wing feathers and while in the water (which was only about 4 inches deep) grabbed her by the neck and tried to mount her. She wasn't having any of it but "he" tried. He did hold her under for a second and made me a little nervous. I just let them do their thing. What do you think, is this a sign of male and female?