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Post by chowdownsilkiefarm on Dec 17, 2013 18:41:43 GMT -6
I was just given 2 grown geese. I know very little about geese. I'm trying to find out how to tell the sex of them. All I've read so far I would need another one to compare them too but I just have the 2. I read that they breed beginning in Feb. I may have to wait to see if either or both or neither lay any eggs. Then go thru the process of checking fertility but if the occassion arises to aquire mates before then I would like to know what I need.
Sooo, is there anybody that can help me out?
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Post by Timbo on Dec 18, 2013 21:38:00 GMT -6
Don't have a clue about geese. Tony is the man to talk to when we start the sales back up.
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Post by chowdownsilkiefarm on Dec 20, 2013 17:04:24 GMT -6
Thanks Tim. Tony is the person that came to mind when I got these. I figured he would have advice. I've learned alot just doing research but the sexing part is more difficult. One person said i can send a feather to be dna tested. I have no idea how expensive that is. I"m not wanting to sink a bunch of money into them just yet.
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Post by Timbo on Dec 21, 2013 17:18:28 GMT -6
Are they like ducks where you can sex them by the noise they make?
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Post by chowdownsilkiefarm on Dec 24, 2013 0:34:19 GMT -6
yea but I would need another one of a different sex to tell the difference. from what I've learned the males have larger feet, longer bill and a bit longer and thicker neck. A person that raises them said mine looks like a male. So I need a female. Babies are going for $50 each. Adults start at $125. Travis helped me find a person that raises them and he was a huge help. He told me all kinds of good info from feeding to breeding. They actually have to have a pond or at least a kiddie pool to breed. They only breed in the water. And they require alot of greens, So our garden next year will have alot of greens and they need more room than what they have now but in spring I'll be moving them in the big pen where all the guinea keets are at now. There are something like 30 in there. This spring they are getting evicted to the woods. One got loose and is living out there now. Gavin sees it every now and then. I figured it would come back to the bunch it grew up with but it prefers the woods. Thats where I want them all to go anyway to eat all those ticks and bugs. Bobby had chiggers all summer and the ticks where awful. With 35 guinea that should lower the number of bugs. I hope.
Anyway, hopefully I can get a girl or two and again hopefully they will produce some babies to pay for themselves since I will have to buy their greens in winter or scrounge for them. We'll see how this new adventure works out. My porcelain babies are doing great. It looks like I have 2 or 3 girls out of the 6 I bought. Lavender is next. I already have who I'm getting them from lined up.
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