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Funny thing happened with the first molt of my 7 Toulouse. All have a bit of white around their bills now and some dark feathers mixed into their white bellies. Will make it easier to spot this year's one and only gosling when it gets the same size as the others with its pristine white belly and...

Mine often look like they put on those mud beauty masks! Really wet, wet early spring so far. The water buckets have a good layer of muck at the bottom every day. They also dig and pull up some type of root to eat. Could be clover roots, not sure. I put an empty plastic coffee can out for...

OMG if I could have gotten it on video.... Some of my ganders absolutely infuriated over two new heavy duty 5 gallon water buckets, went on all out attack on the buckets until and that's were it turned hilarious... Gus suddenly had a bucket hanging off his neck!!! Surprised the heck out of...

Oh, so cute! My girls will not share a nest...

Good Missy!

I put out a spare pool that has a hole in the middle and also added a bit of straw. Gus very highly disapproved of me being so close to the hutch. He got a good early morning shower from the garden hose. Just before I left, I noticed one goose inspecting the inside of the pool while still...

O.k. do geese make nests in wet areas? I only put about 3 to 4 inches of water inside the kiddie pool, to make emptying easier. Last few days, I keep finding lots of grass inside the pool. This morning, goose 1 was on the giant nest and goose 2 on the secondary nest inside the hutch. Goose 3...

Hmmm - I just collected THREE eggs from what is now a large and well defined straw nest! Do geese share their nest like chickens? Now it's even more puzzling how many females I have...

This is exciting - I got my first nest builder today! She does have that really low voice + the nest building attempt really should = at least 1 female out of 7 geese. Well, only lasted about half an hour and she is already out with the others again... I'll start putting out some oyster...

They sure are gorgeous!

Yes, it'll be their first breeding season. Some trying to mount one another going on in the pool. With wetter weather here again, the natural pool will soon be full and the creek running again. I'll be taking the geese up there for their enjoyment. Something about the wet clay bank along the...

Thanks LivinginBrazil. My geese sure look much alike, so I am not certain which one it was. Only Gus is easy to identify. Besides being the largest, he also has what appears like dirty butt feathers. ;) Gus is kind of short tempered with me when I fill the food bowl. Has to be done quickly...

Oh no, I have an outcast gander and he is such a sweet, sweet guy! Gus, the biggest of the flock decided outcast should not come within 20 feet. So, of the seven geese, looks like Gus and the outcast are ganders. I arranged water buckets with plenty of space in between so all geese can do...

Well, my 7 geese are now 4 months old and I can reasonably assume, one is a gander and two are females so far. Gander is the biggest of the bunch and he started with this gut wrenching, high pitched, eardrum shattering squeal when he gets excited, while the two smallest girls mostly have this...

My 7 goslings are now 2 months old. 5 are definitely larger. One of the smaller two goslings has a deep voice and as far as I can tell, she is the only one with a very noticeably deeper voice. Soooooo - what if I have 5 or 6 ganders and only 1 or 2 females? This was really easy to learn...

My 'fuzzy heads' are seven weeks old this weekend and got to go for their first outing into the natural pond. I thought they'd go goose wild in there, but stayed really tame and had so much fun pecking into the mud bank! They did stay close to where I was walking. The creek feeding the pond...

My cat managed to poop a several inches long skinny bungee cord...who knows why she ate that thing?

Oh yes, the plug is still too big to swallow for now. I'll put a larger ring on it and try again. Probably will turn out to be even more fun for the goslings!

Goslings found a new toy box. Well, it was a three gallon bucket with several 3" and 4" plastic plant pots stacked inside. What gooser fun it must have been flinging and chewing those pots around!

Well, just by chance, I found the plug to the pool close to the goose hut several yards away from the pool. I must make the plug less interesting!