[kipper]

 How's everyone's geese laying now ? I've still not had anything

[devonlady]

Me neither Their beaks are reddening up though

[Anke]

My pilgrim pair (last year's hatch) are having sex and she is eating the grid/oystershell like it is going out of fashion - but no sign of eggs, nest building or anything....

[Womble]

Ours were a week late, but I'll take that! 

[HesterF]

Not yet but they were really late Feb last year and March the previous year. I wonder how area dependent it is? I belong to a FB group for West of England geese and a lot of them have started already but many in the South West where I guess it might be a tad warmer? Horrendous weather here today so I can't say I blame them!

[hughesy]

We had our first egg on the 12th, followed by a couple on the 14th and now we've got 5 or 6 laying out of 8 geese. Some of ours laid in the autumn last year and I'm wondering if they are the ones that haven't started yet.

[Eli]

Ours haven't started laying yet, or at least I can't find the eggs if they have started laying. Egg hunt in the hedge every day, kids love it.

[Paulie]

My girls haven't stopped all winter, 2 eggs a day from the 8 of them

[kipper]

 Have I got it wrong as I was under the impression geese don't start to lay until mid to end of February and only for about 3 months .?

[Eli]

Found our first one today, in the same place as the laid in the hedge last year.!

[kipper]

Hes as crabbit as sin ..... But looking like an egg soon hopefully
Tthe shavings have a nice hollow made now and there a lot noisier than normal so fingers crossed 

Mind you I dont blame them waiting a bit as Fifes blooming freezing just now

[waddy]

Had our first one just before Christmas (from two WOE hatched last May and another a bit younger). The next were late january just dropped anywhere, and we are now up to one a day or one every other day from each of the three geese. They lay in a nest scraped in the shelter of a wall. One egg was an enormous double yolker. I'm going to have to start freezing beaten egg soon for baking when the geese finish. The ganders are generally fine with me. One of them is a bit confused and is in love with me! It is quite comical seeing him chase away rival ganders and return to me acting all triumphant!


 

Helen


PS. I am in South Somerset.

[kipper]

Yipeee first ever egg from my geese today ,netter late than never