Welcoming Our New Baby Geese!

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Although we have a couple dozen ducks on our pond, we are still getting more algae growth than we want, so we decided to get a few geese to help out! We used to have quite a few geese, but over the years, they have been picked off by predators, and we have one lone, 15-year-old gander left. We ordered the geese from Metzer Hatchery in California, and they arrived on Thursday after spending three days in the mail, which was a little nerve-wracking because I wasn't sure how goslings would fare after such a long trip. I know turkeys would have probably all been dead, but chickens could have made it.
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  • @goldengryphon
    @goldengryphon2 ай бұрын

    Thank you for posting this! I have a small gaggle of 3 African and had decided to increase the size a bit. I ried incubating their eggs, but that wa a bust. It's my first year incubating, so I was thrilled to get the chicken eggs to hatch out, but I had no luck with goose eggs. Humidity, the incubator's heater went wonky, there were problems. I got two African goslings from Metzer, I hadn't ordered from them before, so I was thrilled to find that the squeakers had been sent along with the gro-gel, like yours. That's a nice touch. Mine are 3 weeks old, have more than doubled in size (it's amazing how fast they grow!). It's been 5 years since I raised geese, so I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing. These babies are very different from the first 5, and I'm scrambling to keep up with them! Thank you for showing that I'm not crazy - it's the geese that are crazy. They do eat just about everything excapt for their feed. Grass, flowers, seeds, ...

  • @caroletraynor8763
    @caroletraynor8763 Жыл бұрын

    Aww, cute 😍

  • @juliabm6551
    @juliabm6551 Жыл бұрын

    They are so cute! Is there a specific website where I can order some baby geese? I don't want get scammed by fake websites

  • @DeborahNiemann

    @DeborahNiemann

    Жыл бұрын

    We get all of our waterfowl from www.metzerfarms.com/

  • @juliabm6551

    @juliabm6551

    Жыл бұрын

    @@DeborahNiemann Great thank you have a great rest of your day! And stay safe

  • @margaritamunoz3897
    @margaritamunoz38972 жыл бұрын

    What kind of food did you feed the baby geese

  • @DeborahNiemann

    @DeborahNiemann

    2 жыл бұрын

    Unmedicated chick starter. Waterfowl should never have medicated chick starter, as it's toxic to them.

  • @thefromscratchhomestead
    @thefromscratchhomestead2 жыл бұрын

    Goose update?

  • @DeborahNiemann

    @DeborahNiemann

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for asking! Unfortunately a predator got one of them early on. But the other five have been doing great!

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