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Where to get Ducklings and Goslings | The Ultimate Guide to Ducklings and Goslings

Gold Shaw Farm | December 24, 2025



Where do I get my ducks and geese from? Let me explain the five different ways we get ducks on the farm. They include hatching, shipping through the mail and buying them at the store. This video is the ultimate guide for people looking for ducklings and goslings. Let’s bring on the baby waterfowl!

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  4. @jamesezzard2995

    December 24, 2025 at 9:00 pm

    We had horrible luck with buying birds from Murray McMurray. We lost probably 30 birds. The ones that lived (6) are now laying. I am probably going to end up buying ducks from our towns feed store. I have 140 ish chickens and 5 peafowl. I am going to get ducks in the spring and hopefully sell tons of chicks this spring.

  16. @susanlango6607

    December 24, 2025 at 9:00 pm

    Have never had issues with getting chicks in the mail in the last ten years. I always let my post office know that a shipment is arriving, and to please call me as soon as the truck arrives.

  19. @krystalnelson9591

    December 24, 2025 at 9:00 pm

    Where I live, there seems to be a problem of not enough female ducks. There are so many people constantly trying to get rid of their male ducks. My aunt has three males and one female.
    We got two females and four Drake's. Don't worry though we keep the magority of males separated.

  20. @BLAH4460

    December 24, 2025 at 9:00 pm

    "you can actually have somebody just give you a bird or buy it off of craigslist. The disadvantages to this approach is you don't necessarily know how they were raised, they could carry some sort of illness"
    I have only ever raised my own pet dogs before, but this information might help. For People that keep a lot of Snakes (Chandler's Wild Life / Snake Discovery) Whenever they buy new snakes, they quarantine them in a separate room for 1 month. This way if they do in fact have an illness, it wont spread to the rest of their snake collection.

    I thought maybe maybe you could pull a page out of that book and just keep new ducks separate from your current ducks for a month, possibly even 2 months if your that paranoid.

    Edit: I'm fully aware that people quarantine their Snakes for other reasons INCLUDING the one I mentioned. But they don't apply here.

  29. @sorrell12345

    December 24, 2025 at 9:00 pm

    Oh my goodness!!!
    I am SO blessed to have found your channel!!!
    Knowledge & entertaining!!!
    Adorable!!!😍
    IF I had watched your vids sooner, I’d have jumped on board sooner
    I have a small pond (3/4 – 1 acre) & the grandson (8) has been after me to get ducks
    I do worry about predators
    Neighbors (my son & his fam 😉)
    next door have lost several chickens over the years
    We have lots of wild life & large predatory birds
    Thanks for sharing!!!!!
    You ROCK!!!!!

  31. @karenmacgyver2314

    December 24, 2025 at 9:00 pm

    Do u know that ducks n geese can live decades n still b profitable,taste or produce / most breeds of fowl mate for life n don't usually cross the breed barier- hense 2 white males surfboarding each other /male ducks ,usually loose their penis at certain time each year so that there is only a certain breeding time /ducks n geese do good together when started off as young as possible/ bless you n please use that Hugh duck for breeding n protect him like he's made if GOLD CUZ HE IS !!! He will plump up all ur hatched ducklings that he's the father of !!!*TÀKING FEATHERS OFF DUCKS -& GEESE is a temp that is very accurate but I've forgotten the temp. …however u can go to "50ducks in a hot tub" vlogs n look into Oct./Nov. First culling for the homeless in Canada where he told in detail about the temp. N WHY it has to be SO exact !!! (To cool feathers don't come off easily too hot skin n fearyhers come of but in patches just rite temp. Beautifull clean bird …as shown in vlog). N I watched it frt
    To end even the culling with usuing an axe !!! M they did about 100 to 3oo in a 3day span n like 8 hour days !!! Start to bagging n wt. Of each !?? ✓ it out n he's available for ??? 's was at it for more than a decade …!!!

  32. @TS-xi7qy

    December 24, 2025 at 9:00 pm

    I greatly appreciate your thoughts on store vs farm bought birds. We had the opposite problem – bought chicks from a local farmer and one died right away and a few others struggled a bit. But, the ones we purchased from stores like Cal Ranch/Tractor Supply/Pratt's Pets absolutely flourished! Love your videos — thanks so much for sharing and having such a humorous, animal-loving heart! 😉

  33. @larstownsend6929

    December 24, 2025 at 9:00 pm

    Method 6: have one of your fans prank send you some fertilized eggs just to see what happens. I had considered sending your farm some fertilized peacocks eggs because I thought it would be funny.

  36. @nocksar744

    December 24, 2025 at 9:00 pm

    I've subscribed to your channel and have been watching your videos regularly for the past few months now and they really helped me get through the city life/student/work. Your videos are both educational and entertaining to watch as they also calm my anxiety and stress after a long day/week, they gave me a nice temporarily escapism from life in general (I've mentioned before but i absolutely love the slow-mo footage of the farm animals haha going to miss those for now), but i can only imagine how much work you have to go through for not only the farm but also your full time job behind the scene, everybody needs their alone/family time and you deserve it! 😊 will be looking forward to seeing gold shaw farm again with a refreshed farmer and bigger toby soon 😊

  43. @mariayelruh

    December 24, 2025 at 9:00 pm

    I've seen our regional P.O. call people, it's not their home Post Office. They do it sometimes when the birds would be sitting around for hours waiting for the next truck to go to the town P.O. Distances aren't ridiculous here, so it works.

  46. @roethlismoore

    December 24, 2025 at 9:00 pm

    We started with 2 emden geese and after 2 years of trying to get them to sit a nest unsuccessfully, we used a broody buff orpington to hatch 7 of the emden eggs. It was a sight to see when the momma orpington would scratch for worms and then step back to allow the baby geese to eat them, motherly instinct. More over, the geese out weighed their surrogate mother in about 3-4 weeks, yet still tried to sit under her at night for warmth. Chickens and Geese living together…

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