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16th April 2024 – we have reopened our waiting list. When you ‘backorder’ what you need, you are joining the waiting list (dispatched in chronological order). WAITING LIST WILL CLOSE Sunday 21st April 7pm, as our waiting list is filling up.
We hatch our own Free Range geese every year on our farm and it is these same egg stock that we share with you here. They enjoy fresh streams and acres of grass.
These are mixed variety goose eggs. Our goose breeds are Embden, Toulouse and hybrids of these two breeds. We have active ganders in a ratio conducive to maximise fertility.
We cannot guarantee pure breed goslings as we keep all our geese together and do not separate them. Our own geese that we hatch every year are beautiful and lay well.
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- Freshest laid eggs provided for you (8-48 hour laid)
- Carefully individually selected for maximum chance of hatchability (not all fertile eggs are good to hatch)
- Carefully hand prepared
- Carefully packed in clean, home-compostable packaging
- Package clearly externally marked as fragile (using paper fragile tape) and box marked on 4 sides for orientation.
- Download the incubation guide free of charge. It really is very good!
- We help you along the way within our Facebook Group ‘Home Farm Customer Hatching Stories’ where you can also see other customers experiences.
- Postage** – We use Royal Mail Tracked 24 service so you can see where your eggs are all along their journey to you. Should you prefer not to take the risk of postal delay, we have provided an option for you to choose Royal Mail Special Delivery.
- Packaging – we are proud to say that we do not use any polystyrene or plastic packaging in any form. All our packaging is home compostable.
- Collection – you may collect your eggs from us. They can be collected from our ‘Click & Collect’ shelf in our shop 24/7/365. There is no requirement for contact. We will email you to let you know when they are ready for collection.
Our latest test fertility rate (Nov 2022) is 80%.
For advice on how to care for your geese please visit
www.rspca.org.uk/adviceandwelfare/farm/farmanimals/ducksandgeese
🐣 Have Fun Hatching! 🐣
Additional Information
*fertility – although we cannot guarantee fertility, it is high and displayed below. We hatch our own birds every year on our farm and it is this same egg stock that we share with you here. It is impossible to tell whether an egg is fertile until it’s been incubated for about 7-10 days.
**Please note – Postage is very hard on hatching eggs. We and the postal service can’t guarantee how carefully the boxes are handled and no matter how well we pack them, sometimes you end up with cracked eggs, detached air-sacs, or otherwise “scrambled” eggs on delivery. The latter are unlikely to develop.
We can’t be held responsible for damaged eggs or postal delays. Regarding any postal delays – fertility holds reasonably well up to 7 days, but declines rapidly afterwards. After 3 weeks of storage, fertility drops to almost zero.
- When we pack and send – see shop front.
- We do not delay posting out orders unless specifically requested to do so by the buyer, or we may delay over long bank holidays if we judge egg viability to be otherwise compromised.
- PLEASE NOTE – WE GIVE OURSELVES 1-2 WORKING DAYS TO DISPATCH. VERY OCCASIONALLY OUR BIRDS MAY HAVE NOT LAID ENOUGH THAT DAY (FOR WHATEVER REASON) OR THERE HAVE BEEN BREAKAGES. IN THIS SCENARIO, YOUR ORDER IS PLACED TOP OF THE LIST FOR THE NEXT DAY.
Katie McCall –
This is I think our 3rd lot of goose eggs from wendy and Andy, there are the best eggs we’ve ever received and hatched and again we will continue buying from them, we also recommend them to anyone and everyone that asks where we buy our hatching Eggs from. We always get 100%hatch rates with the eggs we buy from them.
Katie McCall (verified owner) –
Amazing as always. Will not go to anybody else for any hatching Eggs, Wendy and Andy really are amazing, there Eggs never fail thankyou once again.
Imogen Craig (verified owner) –
I purchased 4 goose eggs just after Christmas, started incubating on the 27/12/22, on the 29/01/23, 3 goslings hatched and are perfect! Now 5 weeks old and doing well 😁 100% recommend Home Farm Cornwall, excellent service! 🥰
Joe –
Brilliant service. All four of my eggs hatched successfully and the goslings are doing well. Many thanks.
hfcmk –
22.04.2021 Heather Jackson: “As I do not use social media, thought I would drop you a quick note on this format, hope you don’t mind. Just over four weeks ago I received delivery of 4 geese eggs, I lost my gander last year and due to COVID etc., thought this year I would try to incubate. First I was very impressed with the packaging and condition of the eggs which all arrived safely. I let them sit on their side for 24 hours bringing them up to room temperature and letting them settle before incubation. After 10 days, my daughter who is 10 and I candled the eggs and found 2 fertile eggs, such excitement. Each Saturday we looked forward to candling the eggs to note their progress. We started to heard chirping on day 28 and on day 30 we witnessed a perfect hatch, such a wonderful experience. The second egg had externally pipped that night and we were concerned that next morning there had been no change however the chick seemed to be active and loud so we left it for another 6 hours. In the end, we had to assist, according to the internet the gosling was shrink wrapped, the shell came away very easily at one end allowing us to dampen the membrane, the gosling was able to finish the job itself. Not as straight forward hatch but another experience I will never forget. They had there first swimming lesson this morning. Both very cute but completely different from leg colouring to markings on their beak, so we are very interested to see what we end up with. Many thanks for supplying healthy eggs giving us such a great experience. Heather Jackson”
hfcmk –
22.04.2021 Heather Jackson: “As I do not use social media, thought I would drop you a quick note on this format, hope you don’t mind. Just over four weeks ago I received delivery of 4 geese eggs, I lost my gander last year and due to COVID etc., thought this year I would try to incubate. First I was very impressed with the packaging and condition of the eggs which all arrived safely. I let them sit on their side for 24 hours bringing them up to room temperature and letting them settle before incubation. After 10 days, my daughter who is 10 and I candled the eggs and found 2 fertile eggs, such excitement. Each Saturday we looked forward to candling the eggs to note their progress. We started to heard chirping on day 28 and on day 30 we witnessed a perfect hatch, such a wonderful experience. The second egg had externally pipped that night and we were concerned that next morning there had been no change however the chick seemed to be active and loud so we left it for another 6 hours. In the end, we had to assist, according to the internet the gosling was shrink wrapped, the shell came away very easily at one end allowing us to dampen the membrane, the gosling was able to finish the job itself. Not as straight forward hatch but another experience I will never forget. They had there first swimming lesson this morning. Both very cute but completely different from leg colouring to markings on their beak, so we are very interested to see what we end up with. Many thanks for supplying healthy eggs giving us such a great experience. Heather Jackson”