Silly Goose, Eat like a pig, and dumb cluck represent just a few of the farm sayings that permeate our language and our culture. However, I didn't realize the truth behind them until I began raising geese, pigs, and chickens.
One of my newest almost grown gosling decided to try and eat some bailing twine. It's green; it could pass for vegetation. But apparently it got stuck going down, and when I first tried to pull it out...it didn't release. Great. Not only are geese silly, but this loser has a long length of green baling twine trailing, stuck in his gullet.
What next, I asked myself. I pondered scissors. I pondered a trip to the vet. I pondered a dinner of young goose. What I actually tried was picking up the silly goose holding him upside down and head down. Imagine my amazement when I was able to slide almost 6 inches of bailing twine from the bird's bill.
Lucky goose! This one might not getting invited to Christmas dinner.
Friday, July 29, 2011
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
A Short Tale of Ducks
I provide nest boxes of blue plastic for my ducks to find a safe, weatherproof space in which to snuggle in, lay some eggs and hatch some cute ducklings. Dark feathered duck starts her a nest in the box, patiently sets. 30 days later, I find 3 ducklings, and some unhatched eggs. Beige Duck starts to move in to help her set on the remaining eggs and she probably added a few of her own eggs to the mix. They nest share for about a week or so. This morning I find the dark feathered duck sitting outside the door of the nest box with one egg and she's pulling feathers from the nest box to her new location clearly unhappy with being evicted from her nest. All is not ducky in her world.
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