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Do you use your barn anymore?
Storage...

Kind of the horror of a kitchen island... what does it do? Give you more counter space?

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Well, it has the ability to do that... and hold EVERYTHING in your life!!


My bantam coop and pond coop are currently empty... but I don't thing either are good choices right now...
 

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I'm ahead of you -- I wrote mine down!!!! 😂 This year anyway! Might have broody 2 starting last night ?? Didn't check this morn but, will today. First still has same 7 eggs there, a good sign they're developing plus no extras added. Maybe chicks 5/2...?? If so Xtra hens & freezer roos if I can keep them safe.
 

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I have put in more nests.... but ...

No other goose is trying to go broody ... stupid... this breed is supposed to go broody... I will have to give them a lecture, go broody, be a good mom, or you will be eaten. :old

And the muscovy do have other nesting spots... but only 3 are broody, AND ALL ON THE SAME NEST. ridiculous! :rolleyes:
 

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I have put in more nests.... but ...

No other goose is trying to go broody ... stupid... this breed is supposed to go broody... I will have to give them a lecture, go broody, be a good mom, or you will be eaten. :old

And the muscovy do have other nesting spots... but only 3 are broody, AND ALL ON THE SAME NEST. ridiculous! :rolleyes:

I had guineas once and the two hens shared a nest under a portable building. The poor male got so lonely that he stayed under the portable building too! So I kept feed and water just under the edge for them.
 

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My Muscovy hens always have either 2 or 3 to a nest... considering the girls are sitting on close to 20+ eggs per nest they need the extra bodies.

My girls should start the hatching around May 5... so cute to see the wee yellow heads sticking out of the hen's feathers.

Good luck with your birds!
 

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Ok.... so WHY don't I note it down the first day I notice?

Because I think that maybe they are just laying, not brooding....

And then I forget.... blah, blah..

Anyway... so some time between the 2nd and 3rd week of April, ONE goose and 3 muscovy started brooding.
I am in a similar boat. I noticed my 4.5 month old unsexed juvenile goose inside the nest house and didn’t think anything of it. The adult female has been laying in there for months and I was letting her keep the eggs in hopes that she would go broody. Chinese geese are supposedly more fertile and better parents at two to three years old than they are their first spring, and this goose turns two this year. None of them tried to go broody last year.

Anyway, after a few days I realized that the juvenile was actually in there brooding eggs. So I have no idea when incubation might have started. Probably around Easter, so that’s what I wrote down and I will start looking out some time before May 20. I guess I can assume she’s a female, right? I hope she doesn’t screw this up because I was really hoping the 2 year old would sit.
 

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