OK, started this once and then made a mistake some where because now I am starting over again. This is our gosling, a few weeks old now. And it is huge! About 4-5 times as big as the chicks. The relation in size is pretty accurate in the picture. And it "talks" to us all the time. Funny.
This is one of the Rhode Island Red chicks. Wanted to show how the wings have grown. They are starting to want to fly out of the pen. Pretty soon they are going to have to go outside in the little pens.
Got up this morning and there were three new turkey poults looking up at me from the incubator. 2 slates and 1 red. This is one of the slates. And they are all healthy and so far none of them have the eye problems the chick had in December.
This is some of the eggs that were left in the incubator. I helped pull some of the shell away from this guy. The last one took over a day to get out. Some people say they can take up to 3 days. Others say they help them out if they take more than a few hours. Still have to be very careful so as not to tear some of the connections between the chick and the egg before they are ready. Also if you look at the egg marked 12 you can see a pip in it, too. The 13 on the goose egg is the day it was due to hatch, not the number of the egg. That number is on the side. The two with the spots are turkey eggs.
When i came home from work tonight, there was another slate poult, so now I have 3 slates and 4 reds. In this picture you can see the goose eggs with the large hole. The two green eggs in the lower right also have holes in them where the chicks are starting to break out.
This is one of the Rhode Island Red chicks. Wanted to show how the wings have grown. They are starting to want to fly out of the pen. Pretty soon they are going to have to go outside in the little pens.
Got up this morning and there were three new turkey poults looking up at me from the incubator. 2 slates and 1 red. This is one of the slates. And they are all healthy and so far none of them have the eye problems the chick had in December.
This is some of the eggs that were left in the incubator. I helped pull some of the shell away from this guy. The last one took over a day to get out. Some people say they can take up to 3 days. Others say they help them out if they take more than a few hours. Still have to be very careful so as not to tear some of the connections between the chick and the egg before they are ready. Also if you look at the egg marked 12 you can see a pip in it, too. The 13 on the goose egg is the day it was due to hatch, not the number of the egg. That number is on the side. The two with the spots are turkey eggs.
When i came home from work tonight, there was another slate poult, so now I have 3 slates and 4 reds. In this picture you can see the goose eggs with the large hole. The two green eggs in the lower right also have holes in them where the chicks are starting to break out.
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I want that goose, it's beautiful.
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