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Dandelion has grown to have a fascinating trait. He has a big gray spot above each eye that makes him look like he has eyebrows. I cannot call by name any previous gosling from the past who may have had this same trait. It is quite possible none of them ever had it as Dandelion is from a different bloodline. I will be watching to see if this will completely disappear or if it will make his coloring slightly or obviously different from the other geese when he is fully feathered out.
When I first mentioned my goslings I did not know which ones were boys and which ones were girls. I am excited now that I know. I did not have much hope that I would have a bunch of females in a batch of five goslings. I was thinking I would only have one. Fortunately, I got two females. One of them I had guessed was a female from the very beginning while the other I realized was a female before I checked for certainty. I do not like to vent-sex goslings that are small especially ones under a week of age because I cannot find a proper way to hold them and I do not want to hurt them. Apart from that, I want it to be as non-scary as I can make it. Over time, I have found out what I am looking for. It was not what I expected and I totally messed up a few times. When I had my first bunch grow out for this laying season I had most of them switched up.
I did not realize there could be so much diversity in goslings. Gray African goslings are just gray and yellow as babies, right? Well, no. The markings - usually on the face - can be slightly different. They could be obviously different. The gosling named Crescent is named so because of his crescent under his eye. One thing I have recently been noticing is that when a gosling has a fascinating marking on its face they might only have it one side and the other side looks like a normal gosling's face. Crescent here does not really have a crescent on the other side of his face. I do not know if this alters how their stripe looks at all.
I felt reluctant to order Chinese or African geese from a hatchery because I did not want to have undesirable traits that I would have to breed back out. I went with the plan of getting new bloodlines from Atwoods because they would not be totally different from my original flock of geese. A few days ago we checked out a few Atwoods in search of some goslings. I was hoping for about 12 in order to have quite a few females. We came to the Atwoods in Coweta and found 5. I did not want the expedition to be fruitless so I bought all of them. As we went home I began to bond with them. Once they were put out on the grass I found them to be friendly little things. I see some Chinese traits already - some are smaller than others - but I am hopeful that they will have what I am breeding for. I will talk about what I am breeding for later on but for now I will be talking about my five goslings. I am excited about them and would like to introduce them.
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my name is EmilyI have twenty-eight geese. I hatch a bunch of goslings because I want a lot of people to have geese. I do not see them everywhere but I want to! The goslings are the sweetest baby birds I know! The adult males are proud and can be cranky but have their sweet moments while the females are shy and sweet all at the same time. Categories
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