Posts by The goose girl

Do you know if she actually eats the oyster shell?   My late goose didn't care for oyster shell, so I baked some mixed with wheat flour and water and fed them to her as treats. She caught on to that, too, and started...

Quote: Originally Posted by Goose and Fig  The only thing keeping me from having 100 geese is the lack of pasture. If I could get more grass to grow up here....<3 x2!   If I had the space, I would have...

So cute! I love that they "dive" in the snow.

Mine are also noisy pets - eventually they'll end up in freezer camp, but until then they're very efficient lawnmowers and -fertilizers. They also weed out the solar lamps they don't like, and they're always so much fun to look...

Quote: Originally Posted by beachbumdad  But it's still very frequently, usually triggered by my daughter and her friends playing outside or inside (making noise), but when they are outside he just keeps going and...

I think I have two ganders, and they definitely don't allow each other to mate them. They keep trying to mate in the pool.   One of them is a gander for sure - his penis showed one day when he was preening himself. It was...

A guy I met last year had a goose that was half greylag, half domestic breed. She died shortly before her 40th birthday, having survived four ganders due to her ability to fly. He said she stopped laying around her 25th year.

Quote: Originally Posted by HappyMtn  I couldn't afford that one, but I found a copy of  'Here Am I--Where Are You?: The Behavior of the Greylag Goose'   That one is actually the better choice! 

Konrad Lorenz, the great Austrian ethologist, studied goose language for years and years. See if you can find a copy of his "The Year of the Greylag Goose". It's a wonderful book for goose enthusiasts, and it deals with many aspects of...

It depends on how the goose is packaged. Usually it will only keep raw in the fridge for 2 or 3 days, so unless the packaging says differently, you should either consume it before Christmas or put it in the freezer for a few...