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.
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