Mother Geese Hatching Their Eggs Naturally 

I really want it too it's hilarious!

Was hoping there would be different t-shirt color options?

Question Morgan - Does the company ship to Canada? I only saw shipping within the US. Am I wrong?

Can't wait

0:53 Morgan the (Golden) Easter Bunny ;D

Right? I was so proud of her when I saw that!

Thinking the same.

I guess it makes sense...other mothers on the same nest might be overly rotating eggs just scrabbling D:

The buff goose agrees!

Also thinking that the ganders might have been harassing the mama's on the nests because they're "sitting ducks".

I hope he gives this another shot next year trying with that kind of set up. Maybe use the chicken tractors and give one to Mother Goose and maybe one or two other broody geese. Fewer nests, more controlled, using only the top 2-3 broody girls, and maybe if they have a gander that's hanging around with them, let him stay with the nest too so the mamas can feel protected. I'd also like to see him do the same with Dotty and a few broody hens and ducks, but...that's just because nothing seems more natural to me than having a few birds of each type going broody in a safe place.

I was cheering for Dottie, for bird that's badly outweighed and outclassed she was really punching above her weight class. And that goose totally had it coming.

@@ArkriteTheMad Birds are fearless balls of Anger when it comes to protecting their babys.

Dottie seems to be a bit of an entitled parent then XD Her kid comes over and bothers the goose, the goose tells the kid to buzz of and Dottie goes nuts on her. Anything but admitting her "precious angel" did any wrong.

​@@zakuraRabbit Karen chicken

To be more exact, the goose was just trying to protect what the goose thought was baby goslings getting ready to hatch underneath her. But the baby chick was just innocently trying to run past quick to get to mama Dottie and the other baby chick, not actually intending to bother the goose at all.

There's 2 kinds of strategies that nature follows. The more common is throw numbers at it. Like fish, they have hundreds sometimes thousands of children, only the strongest and luckiest survive. Vs Elephants, they have 1 baby every several years, but that one baby has a high chance of survival, mother and herd protection.

It’s still even hard for humans to have babies. Even though infant mortality goes down with modern medicine, actually getting pregnant can be quite difficult. About half of fertilized eggs don’t even implant.

We’ve had a robin family make a nest in the wreath just outside our front door and, out of three eggs, only one’s hatched. It’s been about a week and the other two eggs are still there, but if they haven’t hatched already they probably won’t now. The chick that’s currently in there is getting bigger every day. I hope he makes it, but apparently the first year for most birds is their most volatile/dangerous.

@@Sam-ps8zz To add to that, mola fish (aka sunfish, aka the giant swim-flying pancakes, aka the poor fish orcas like to toss like Frisbees) are estimated to carry 300 million eggs per spawn.

I read somewhere that Mourning Doves don't make very good nests. That could be part of the problem. Those are such great birds.

As it happend i said the same thing outloud as he could hear me haha

i was about to comment that! She's not a goofy mom! she's a heck of a good mom!

she didn't think twice about it aswell.

Yea Morgan filming things can create issues like this, I think he gets set on his opinion so doesn't bother to check.

Yeah but she’s goofy. That goose was not a predator. Further, Dottie would not remain in the protected areas where her chicks were safe. Goofy again. She has the instincts of a good mother but not the skills.

She needs to be isolated and a space on her own. You can see in the video at 6:55 she's attacked by two other geese and leaves the nest. Morgan doesn't even know what happened as he just saw her leave. If this happened often, there is zero chance any eggs would hatch. Remember it was Justin the goose in the years before, even attacking Morgan, that made sure she would be left alone and not leave the nest.

@@11matt11 I agree!

@@Anonymous-qn6gx I agree too. From Coco Bolyn

I was looking for this comment lol I totally agree

I agree.

Yes, for sure! 👍🐕 guard Abby & loveable Toby!❤❤🐾🐾

WHERES ME MALLET

That's geese for you

7:13

I hope he keeps an eye on her. Chickens can get depressed, and she's been through a lot.

And then your neighbours start using you as a jungle gym, your other neighbours keep punching you in the face, your other neighbours really want to have their face in your business, and then every guy in a 5 mile radius wants to hump you, all while you just want a nice quiet day sitting on your nest

The music was horrific

It was hilarious :D

At least take it off the releasing the quacken! I love the slo-mo but CANNOT listen to that music

sorry but the music is apart of who Morgan is, his videos and you need to accept it or move on

I mean that part at 4:05 is wayy back not long after she got to the farm. Even throughout this video you can see she grows larger and becomes much more comfortable around them. At the end she's showing interest in the goslings, but that's not overly surprising since they're now decently sized, but peeping like crazy and high energy.. it feeds into her puppy energy she still has. I imagine by the end of the summer though, Abby girl will calm down more and become the guardian dog she's meant to be :)

The goslings he let out near the end of the video was in a brooder, I think. But he really wants the geese to be successful hatching naturally. Sadly, not much luck so far.

The brooder still works, the gooselings at the end are from 4? videos ago maybe. Those where very successful.

Did u like..not watch the whole beginning of the videos where Morgan explains that he's just doing basically an experiment...? Like what

I wish he would put the dates on videos like this.

@@patheticallyy I'm pretty sure derPrayer is asking about sticking the eggs from the nests into the brooder now that Morgan has disrupted the nests; after checking their viability (i.e. candling). I can't imagine that's doable at this point though.

It's very likely because they had more peace in the past with fewer other animals to disturb them. If they keep getting disturbed or bullied, they leave their nests too often and the eggs end up getting cold. I think the only way he'll be able to get natural hatching in the future will be a nesting barn, where the mammas are all kept separated from each other (and other animals), with access to food and water close to them. Atm they have other geese, randy ganders, dogs, cats, and chickens bombarding them cinstantly. Imagine you were doing something really delicate, like building a ship in a bottle or something, and all your neighbours kept either climbing on your back or getting in your face, then some curious dogs the size of garden sheds get in your face, you keep getting slapped by cats, the neighbours from down the street bring their kids over who trash the place, you try to stop them breaking the bottle, and your neighbour punches you in the face, and then to top it off, unfortunately your focus brings all the boys to the yard, and now they're trying to hump you while you build the ship. It would all be so distracting when you just wanted to focus on your task, and you'd definitely spend a lot of time away from your bottle ship projects in an attempt to escape your neighbours treating you, and your house, like a jungle gym. I hope my analogy makes sense 😂

Yeah. Dottie is good at hatching but she’s kind of a nutcase at protecting her chicks. She doesn’t want to stay where they will be safe. I think it’s time for a Sunday dinner featuring Dottie Cordon Bleu.

She needs an actual trainer.

Will Morgan get arrested?!?!?! Naw I don’t think there’s a prolife goose law in Vermont ….. Just the facts of life ….