Meet our French Toulouse Geese
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- čas přidán 28. 07. 2024
- Meet Claudette our French Toulouse goose and her goslings in this short video from Welcome to my Farm! Watch the full episode here: • Backyard Gardening Tip...
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That's so sweet that you got Claudette some babies to care for. She seems to love being a Mama. I've got a bit of fear about geese and swans. I've only known the white geese and swans, and the black swans. Those critters will chase you down, and ya better get out of the way!!! Such a pleasure to see your farm. Brings a smile to my face.
She is beautiful! I love her little tail and orange beak
We love our geese!
Hello. I am a wildlife rehabilitator who cares for native reptiles and amphibians, small mammals, and some local water fowl, including the resident ducks and geese at the numerous parks. I have a feral living Toulouse female whom I take care of in a local park for the past several years, along with numerous Chinese geese. Last year she decided to mate up with a wild Canada goose and had some half & half babies. She had another clutch again this year and now has 6 goslings about a month old now. Her name is Hillary, and she is sweet and very much loved. In the past 5 or so years I've really become partial to the geese and it's a favorite part of my day to visit them. They have such personality.
ReptileRescue- That is interesting that your Toulouse mated with a Canada gander. But then again my Toulouse females were very picky as they chose their own mate for life. What concerns me of late in New Hampshire is the bird flu. I owned a private waterfowl hatchery many years ago and shut it down after the last episode of bird flu. I really would like to start it up again, but still causious. Lisa's female is a beauty! I hatched hundreds and almost all were either for show or pets on the pond. All my customers picked them up as "day old" and they instantly bonded! Very nice tempered breed.
Domestic geese don't mate
For life and will easily
Accept a new mate
And male domestic
Geese will mate with
Several females
Mother geese do a fantastic job at raising and protecting the baby goslings.
Yes they do!
She's super friendly lol with you lady I doubt she'll be nice to strangers 😅
No she's not bad. She might hiss or honk at a strangers but he's not aggressive at all.
Wow I have see this geese in Matchinchang Petland Langkawi. Very amaze by her beauty, size and friendly behavior.
Yes I agree.
I just bought a Toulouse Gosling, and an Embden. I hope they like water, cuz I got two big ponds for em to play in.
Oh I'm sure they will. Just be sure to lock them up somewhere safe at night. They're not safe, even on the lake.
I don't know why, but geese don't become fertile until about three years of age.
Oh interesting... I did not know that.
@ruth a
That is only true with the breeds like Emden goose and other giant breeds, but not with others.
Many domostic geese have low fertility
The first couple of seasons
Great video! I'm just wondering, why geese have shiny orange beaks and feet, plus the goslings are neon yellow! ;) Any predator should be easily able to spot them from great distance. So, evolution, what were you thinking? Anybody has some information on this? Thanks a lot!
They store the orange pigment in foods they eat in their feet and bills. www.fresheggsdaily.blog/2020/01/what-makes-egg-yolks-orange.html
Well for one, they're domestic. So natural selection was interfered with. The color of gosling's, and ducklings however, that yellow, and brownish blends really well with most marsh grasses where they would typically nest. Lastly, that's why geese are so "Aggressive" compared to other fowl. They're slow, and kind of clumsy. So they fight like the third chimp in line to the ark.
@@radfatdaddy4169 Well Greylag Geese and Canada Geese have neon colored goslings as well, so natural selection wasn't interfered with. But yeah, on ground geese are slow and clumsy (in the air they're the perfect pilots though!) so that's a point with their legendary aggressiveness! I'm friends with many wild and domesticated geese and not a single wild goose bit me, they're very friendly and peaceful once you get to know them and we trust each other etc.
@@RaptureMusicOfficial You have a very different color profile than I do if you consider Canadian Goslings to be neon yellow.
@@radfatdaddy4169 You are far from reality if you deny that. I'm close to goslings regularly. Why yellow in geese, but camouflage in ducks. Even cygnets are grey and camouflaged.
The Toulouse goose is preferred by master chefs everywhere.
We don't eat our geese...
Find an actual cooking video to say that on
I have a Sebestopol named Lily (who I'm fairly certain now is a boy lol) super sweet. I wanted a Toulouse but we couldn't find a breeder nearby. Someday tho
I got mine from Metzer Farms .
I got mine shipped from cackle hatchery. My gander recently has left a big old bruise on my arm from biting me so hard... he was trying to mate his 4 month old daughter and got mad when I tried to separate him from her. His mate, the daughters mother is a wonderful goose though. His son Chungus, still waiting to see if he inherits his fathers aggressiveness. Since I actually hatched them out myself (their kids I mean), they are even sweeter to me than their parents who I got as a couple day old chicks. BUT, we will see once breeding season hits.
I think I am going to have to cull their father though. I don't want a baby rapist and it's hard to keep them separate.
A boxer dog got loose in our yard once and took out all the ducks and geese except for my male toulouse
I would be suing my neighbor so fast if they let their dog out and they killed our flock.
If you do what you said where you bring in day old goslings to sneak them into a broody goose's nest... how do you do that and make sure she adopts them? It seems like if you didn't do it a certain way they might not take?
Thanks.
Also... some of the information on Toulouse geese it suggested... some sources said they didn't get as big as the dewlap version. But other sources said the other way around. Can the normal toulouse get as heavy, big as the dewlaps? I kind of like the non-dewlap ones more but hope they can be pretty similar on size... when you raise them, if you are going to have them at all it makes sense to try to get a good target weight out of farming them?
I always stick around when I'm introducing chicks or ducklings or goslings to a mom. They don't always take to them, but it will be pretty clear right away if they have that maternal instinct. I don't have the dewlap, but I believe they are slightly larger. We dont eat our animals, so I"m not terribly concerned about body weight.
its kids will get
I love your set up do you sell them too as i wish to buy pair baby one week old thank you
No, sorry
How can you tell for sure in a Toulouse goose when grown if it is a male or female?
I have one that just showed up on my farm and I'm keeping in but I want to get one more since it's only one but I want to make sure I have a male and female so I can have babies
Males are larger. Females lay eggs.
Honk!
Well, that's Landes geese. Different breed.
Claudette is a French Toulouse.
That’s a Greylag not a Toulouse. Greylags are the original geese.
No it's a Toulouse.
She needs a mate
We tried a gander. Way too aggressive. We have people at our farm a lot and we can't have animals attacking! We have two females, so she does have a friend.
You are NOT a "poultry expert". A legend in your own mind, lol!
Thanks for your opinion. I do beg to differ though. I've written 6 top selling books, my site is used by poultry science depts at several universities, I've been raising chickens for 12 years as an adult and came from a chicken keeping family. I host a TV Show and have been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes and nearly every homesteading and chicken keeping publication. What WOULD constitute an "expert" pray tell?
Wow, that's cold. Can't you just enjoy a beautiful thing?
@@delilahFL Haters gonna hate. There are some people out there who are just so miserable in their own lives, they can't stand to see any one else be happy or successful...