My geese just laid an egg!?

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My family has geese and chickens. I went down to let them out and feed them and to my surprise there was a goose egg in the corner. We have had our geese roughly a year. There are 4 geese and they are always together. My family thinks we have 2 male and 2 female because the ones we think are male are larger than the ones we think are female. Should i get rid of the egg or should i let her keep it? How do i tell if its fertilized?

Update:

I saw my geese mating so im guessing the eggs fertile

anthony f · Accepted Answer

Leave the egg alone......she will lay a couple of eggs and as she sits on the nest she will start pulling feathers and linning the nest....she will also pull straw and grass up around her as she is laying her first eggs....The female is easy to pick out...the skin and feathers between her legs hangs down and the gander's is tighter and doesn't hang down like the goose....you won't be able to tell if the eggs are fertile until the hen has sat on them for about 5-7 days.....it is best to leave them alone so she doesn't wander off to hide her nest......once the hen starts to sit full time it will take 30-32 days for the babies to start to hatch....sometimes she will sit on the nest for up to two days before she leads the babies off.........

? · Answer

If you want to know if its fertile, collect and egg and crack it open, if there's a red spot inside the yolk, its fertile. You can take the egg away from the girl goose and eat it, she wouldn't be too upset, she just went broody, which means she wants to hatch some babies, so if you want to sell some goslings, let her sit on them and she'll lay a clutch of 7-8eggs and hatch them. On the other hand they lay huge eggs, like the size of two chicken eggs, so you could eat them and have no problems with her or the others.

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