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Tag: Grazing Geese

Around The Farm: The Great Gosling Integration

11 June 2021 ~ Carrie

Integrations can be an exciting, but difficult, time: this is when young (or newly-added) animals join the resident group. For poultry, this can be a dangerous time, and it needs to be managed carefully. After weeks in tractors that were moved twice a day to fresh pasture, the goslings were finally ready to join the adult geese.

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Around The Farm: Goslings Getting Outdoors

28 April 2021 ~ Carrie
This seems so long ago…

With warm weather, the Pilgrim goslings have been able to go outside. It’s a win/win situation because the goslings can crop the grass down and their poop fertilizes the pasture!

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Incubation Update: The Goslings Are Hatching! (Long Read)

14 April 2021 ~ Carrie
Spot the pips?

Sometimes, the quiet in an incubator with eggs in lockdown is deafening. What’s going on in there? Are the air cells large enough? Are the goslings still alive?? And then, out of the blue, a pip appears!

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Incubation Update: Pilgrim Goose Eggs – Second Candling

5 April 2021 ~ Carrie ~ 2 Comments
Definitely alive! We’re in the homestretch.

The goose eggs are nearly three quarters of the way through incubation. Today, I candled to verify continued development and weighed the eggs. I also visually checked the air cell development.

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Incubation Update: Pilgrim Goose Eggs – Second Candling

31 March 2021 ~ Carrie ~ 1 Comment
Getting the daily “spa” treatment (misting & cooling)

It’s the second candling, roughly halfway through the incubation period. There’s good news and bad news, but overall, it’s looking very good.

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In The Incubator: The Year’s First Pilgrim Goose Eggs

25 March 2021 ~ Carrie ~ 1 Comment
These were completely hidden beneath a thick layer of shavings

Our lovely ladies have been laying, reliably, so I was able to collect a dozen huge eggs in short order. With luck and lots of hand-turning (and misting and cooling), goslings will emerge in a few more weeks!

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