As you probably read, our goose died several weeks ago. We moved the eggs to the incubator, but with only a 40% hatch-ability rate under the best conditions, we weren't too hopeful.
Well, none of the eggs hatched, sorry to say. It happens. I wasn't certain what day she started setting them, so it's hard to know exactly how long what needs to happen in the incubator. They have to be turned so many times per day, watered so many times per day, the humidity and temperature have to be just right for so many days and then changed for other days, the eggs have to be cooled for x number of minutes per day. All in all, it's better left up to the goose.
When the goose died, that left us with 1 gander. Well, 1 gander can't really do much but eat. He's too old to eat ourselves.
We have an agreement with a local company, we provide them with rabbits and chickens for their larger animals and they trade us peacocks. It's a pretty good deal for us when we have rabbits and chickens breeding.
So, since none of the eggs hatched and we need a cage for the peacocks (we have plans and some parts for a new cage, but don't have the cash for the rest of the materials at the moment), we decided to sell the gander. I have someone coming to pick him up this afternoon and then tomorrow, we should be able to bring the peacocks home. Then, we'll have peacocks again.
Peacocks don't do much for us, other than eat, but our friends love the feathers. When we get extra peacocks, we sell them at the local farm auctions. My husband has a peacock recipe he's been dying to cook for years, but we never have the right situation to try it out. Maybe this time we'll get lucky.
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