My sweetest goose, Dakota, is officially broody as of today. She's the one who will practically sit in your lap if you let her, which of course means she has no respect for me when I'm anywhere near the nest - and she knows where the soft, vulnerable spots are on the human body! I'm pretty sure...
Muscovies must be different than other breeds of duck. Mine are like geese without the hormonal rage.
Do your geese ever go after you as well as your ganders?
The difference between a few days old and four weeks old. It can be lost on you until you see side by side comparisons. It never ceases to amaze me.
I keep trying to remember if my other poultry species have such an incredible growth rate, and I don't thing they do. Geese are really something...
View of the feathered family from earlier today as we were waiting for the eclipse to start. Is anyone else as amazed by gosling growth rates as I am? I feel like I always forget how fast they grow.
Found everyone up when I went out for for everyone's water change. The 9th gosling didn't make it, unfortunately.
Sentry duty. The Embdens and Americans have formed a pact to keep the Toulouse away for some reason.
Every now and then security gets lax, and uninvited visitors check things...
Things are so busy here around this time that I accidentally marked Heidi as sitting on her eggs a week later than when she actually started. The great news about this is that from my point of view, goslings have arrived early! These pictures are from yesterday. When I went to bed, there were...
Hey, fellow goose fans! I have nine in my flock: three each of buff americans, embdens, and production toulouse. This will probably be a long post, but y'all brought it upon yourselves, giving me the opportunity to talk about my geese and all! ;)
It's that time of year again. My girl, Heidi...