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    What's the temperature where you are???

    72 deg cloudy and HUMID with heat indexes getting to 100-104 deg and storms.
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    Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

    Hello All! I don't have a garden or a field to plant in but I can tell you the fields surrounding us are doing decent considering the start to the summer being so wet and cold. Corn is only about hip high (and that's being generous) Beans are growing- Ill leave it at that. LOL! I hear the sweet...
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    Lonely gander when goose is on a nest....

    I locked my geese up in an insulated kid's playhouse at night. Now they are fenced in with the option to go in their hut. Eddie took it over for a nursery now so...Rusty lays on the front porch of the hut. LOL! Geese seem to be more aware of their surroundings than the ducks. Ducks are kind of...
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    Lonely gander when goose is on a nest....

    Day 30 is July 26...so hopefully that last week of July is hatching. Should have enough warm weather to get them big enough for our brutal winters. I am curious how the 7 ducks will handle this. They all share 5 acres to roam- at night ducks go in a hut of their own. Will be interesting if...
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    Lonely gander when goose is on a nest....

    Rusty molted his big wing feathers, I almost had a heart attack- it looked like a murder scene when he would walk/fly across the yard in the mornings. Eddie has been laying eggs every other day for a few months and I kept taking them. I went out of town and my fiance was caring for the birds and...
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    Lonely gander when goose is on a nest....

    I hope they hatch too. They are a cute couple and I don't want him getting sick or heartbroken with her having this change in behavior. In all honesty, I really miss his mean SOB attitude lately. You get so used to the hissing, biting, charging and loud screaming that when it is gone you...
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    Lonely gander when goose is on a nest....

    Morning. I have 2 geese-a pair. I allowed my goose to sit on 2 eggs. It has been 2 weeks. She seems to be doing well, wanders around a couple times a day to eat and stretch her legs and yell at anyone who will listen. My gander Rusty seems very lonely. He sleeps by her at night but you can hear...
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    Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

    My neighbor has turkeys and they are sooooo neat. If anything would happen to my flock I would totally look into having a pair of turkeys. My neighbor has a group of males and they all "gobble" so loudly together and move like a wave in the yard. They are fun to watch. When I get my incubator...
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    Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

    I looked into that fencing to just keep the dog from eating all the duck/goose food...I gave up. He now does chores with me and I put the food up while I am out there. LOL! He helps with clean up...eats the duck/goose poop. Again, I gave up on the fight with him. Vet doesn't seem concerned about...
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    Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

    Welcome. I am in the central part of the state but my daughter went to college in La Crosse and has lived there for 3 years. I myself have 7 ducks and 2 geese but we all tell stories and chat about all sorts of topics on here. Animals, crops, gardening, canning, fencing, weed control and most...
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    Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

    How does this work in winter with all the snow? Does it tip over a lot? I have a wire fence with cheap garden posts. We don't really have issues with predators other than hawks and eagles which there is nothing I can do about it. (I have 7 ducks and 2 geese) My male goose honks to the high...
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    Do you think its true...

    I have my duck grazing a 4.5 acres yard- 3 acres lawn and the rest tree lines and a small wooded area. We are surrounded by farm fields-they go wander in there too. We don't really have bugs around. A few frogs get sacrificed along the way sadly but overall- we have NO issues with ticks, bugs...
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    Mean gander

    Mine is the same. He was pleasant up until a few months ago. He hisses at everything, charges everything and I have been biten a bunch of times. I have just accepted it. We argue everyday...has become my norm at this point. I love him so....it is what it is.
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    Favorite Duck went broody...

    This morning she came out of the tree line with an egg on her beak. 3 of the egg shells are near the nest. If something ate the eggs I assume they all would be gone. She may be kicking out the bad eggs? I think I am going to remove all the eggs tonight and flatten the nest. It breaks my heart...
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    Favorite Duck went broody...

    Like taking away all her 14 eggs and making her start over? Or moving the eggs and let her do her thing?
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