We knew it was goose egg season but hadn’t found their nest. This morning it was visible. 7 eggs. Probably less than a week old.
I’m going to have to change dinner plans this week now that I have gose eggs available.
Goose egg facts:
Three times the size of a chicken egg.
Chicken eggs are 30% yolk.
Goose eggs are 50% yolk.
That means the yolk is the size of 1.5 chicken eggs.
This makes them perfect for dippy yolks with fresh baked bread.
Boil time for a firm white and liquid yolk is one minute per ounce, so probably 6 to 7 minutes. Have an ice bath ready when you take them out of the water because they will continue to cook until you open them up.
They are great for baking. But not ideal for omelets because of the higher yolk content.
You get about one egg per female goose every other day. We have three females. So we will have about 10 eggs per week until they stop just before summer.
If a snake gets to a goose egg before we do that snake probably won’t have to eat for a month.
Time to make some crusty bread, buy some salted butter, and I crazy. Maybe some anchovies too. Anchovy butter on crusty bread dipped in goose yolk is very tasty.
They are friendly enough eight months of the year. Minimal hissing and no attempts to eat your legs the moment you turn around.
But for four months out of the year they are aggressive dinos that you can’t turn your back on. If they aren’t on the nest they aren’t too bad. If they are on the nest you will need to carefully pick them up without getting bit or beaten with their wings. And relocate them before you try to get the eggs.
We found a second nest today with five eggs in it. The goose was on it but wasn’t ready to fight me so she got up and wandered away on her own.
Most of the year it takes about four minutes to put away all the ducks, chickens and geese at night. But for the next few months it will take somewhere between four minutes and 20. Because now there may be one or more geese hiding on a nest somewhere on the property and we have to go find them because they can’t stay out all night due to predators. Which is another reason to find the eggs. If a raccoon or possum finds an egg before we do they will start coming back and that’s a danger to everyone.
That’s the geese I know!