Just a quick post to say it is day 27/28 tomorrow of Mrs Goose sitting on 19 eggs and now our other goose has decided to sit on quite a few of the eggs, which she has also helped lay, as you can see in the picture.
The average incubation is 30 days, so hopefully we might have a few goslings. Geese are not mature until they are 2 years old. I have 1 gander who is 2 and 2 females that are 1 year and Mrs Goose who is 2 years old. So we are waiting to see what happens. It would be good to have something hatch as although they are doing what comes naturally, it takes a lot out of them. They have to be checked to make sure they come of the nest to eat and drink although I do put food and water in their house. More fresh meadow hay has been added and now we will wait and see. She has now become a bit hissy. Today we had a buzzard flying over-head this always happens when we are due a hatch.
Hope you're having a good bank holiday weekend.
I hope you get a nice little bunch of goslings. This is exciting.
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Hi FlowerLady Lorraine
DeleteThankyou for visiting me. We are really looking forward to having some little goslings.
Sarah
How exciting Sarah. We used to get goslings when I was a girl- one set of which we had to hand raise because the gander rejected them (there were two batches of eggs being incubated by two different ladies and he chose one set and rejected the others) so we had goslings living in our bath for a while!
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DeleteThankyou for visiting me. I can just imagine as a girl this would be fun keeping them in the bath.
Sarah
Hope everything goes well...I bet the goslings are gorgeous. As a child we used to have day old chickens to rear and they fascinated me. I spent hours just watching them.
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ReplyDeleteThankyou for visiting. Yes it's lovely to watch chicks, they are so cute. No goslings yet though.
I bet you are looking forward to the hatchings!
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M : )
Yes, it would be lovely to have little goslings around the farm. Fingers-crossed some will hatch. Good to hear from you.
ReplyDeleteSo cute!
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DeleteHi there Sarah, I do hope the pesky buzzard buzzed off and you have little goslings at the moment! Loving reading through your idyllic posts!
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Yes they are a pain. The goslings are very sweet and growing fast. Lovely to hear from you.
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