Okanagan goose management: Egg-addling program returns for 16th year
Egg addling involves shaking geese eggs or coating them with non-toxic, biodegradable food-grade corn oil within 14 days of incubation to make them non-viable.“Geese continue to incubate until they realize the eggs will not hatch,” according to the program. “By then, it is generally too late in the year to produce more eggs. Adults are not harmed and will continue with their regular annual life cycle.
The program says in the past 15 years, more than 20,000 eggs have been addled, which it says equates to an estimated 11,000 to 15,000 geese not being born.“This does not include the thousands of offspring that those geese could have produced over the years,” said the program. Kate Hagmeier of the program says egg addling is being done because Canada geese aren’t a natural species in the region, adding several different subspecies were introduced to the Okanagan in the 1960s and ’70s.The program is asked to report lone geese, pairs of geese or nest locations by either emailingThe public is also asked to stay away from goose nests and to not touch the eggs.
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