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[livininbrazil]

Hi Miss Lydia. All my neighbours are Brazilians, we´re English. We´ve lived here for 6 years after a 3-month vacation in Brazil. We loved it here, so we moved. The weather´s great, the birds are beautiful, so are the plants and trees. A number of people here have geese,the chinese-type, or mixed, but no-one that I´ve met yet has ever eaten one, or even heard of it....they like beef! Chickens are a staple, too. The geese here are because people like them, especially the chinese, or as they´re called here, "sinaleiros", meaning "signalers" because they announce the arrival of strangers. So many people here are more afraid of geese than dogs, so they make good guard-geese!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Hi Miss Lydia. All my neighbours are Brazilians, we´re English. We´ve lived here for 6 years after a 3-month vacation in Brazil. We loved it here, so we moved. The weather´s great, the birds are beautiful, so are the plants and trees. A number of people here have geese,the chinese-type, or mixed, but no-one that I´ve met yet has ever eaten one, or even heard of it....they like beef! Chickens are a staple, too. The geese here are because people like them, especially the chinese, or as they´re called here, "sinaleiros", meaning "signalers" because they announce the arrival of strangers. So many people here are more afraid of geese than dogs, so they make good guard-geese!

And I have read many times Chinese are the best guard geese there is. Sounds like a beautiful place to live . What about winters do ya'll have them at all? Are the natives accepting of foreigners moving in?

 

[livininbrazil]

Well, the chinese here are certainly far more aggressive than my geese. For instance, my neighbour has a chinese gander that goes at you if he can. I just put my foot up at him, but other people scream and run, which, of course, makes him worse, but it all adds to the reputation!
Brazilians love foreigners, they´re so easy-going as a people. The neighbours knew us before we bought this place, because we had Brazilian friends that lived here, and we could speak portuguese, so that helped, and they were all very welcoming. They like that there are English people here, it´s a novelty. In the town we live in of 12,000 population there are 5 foreigners. Two Germans that came over many years ago, and us. And we teach them English, so even better!
The winters are July and August just some cold nights., maybe down to 6ºC. Sometimes we get a frost. But during the day it rarely gets below 16ºC, usually it´s 25. MUCH better than England´s weather! And we have beautiful wildlife, tucans and hummingbirds etc. Wildlife that poses a problem are the possums, they take eggs and small chicks or ducklings, but this year I´ve not had a problem with them. I lost 2 ducklings to them last year. Then someone managed to run it over in the road. There are native wild cats and a type of wild dog. I have seen them twice, but it´s rare to see them where there is a population of people and domestic dogs. It´s great! And lots of people here have muscovies, the domesticated ones mainly, although there are parks that have the wild ones that take up residency, being native to S. America. Now, they ARE for eating and eggs.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Well, the chinese here are certainly far more aggressive than my geese. For instance, my neighbour has a chinese gander that goes at you if he can. I just put my foot up at him, but other people scream and run, which, of course, makes him worse, but it all adds to the reputation!
Brazilians love foreigners, they´re so easy-going as a people. The neighbours knew us before we bought this place, because we had Brazilian friends that lived here, and we could speak portuguese, so that helped, and they were all very welcoming. They like that there are English people here, it´s a novelty. In the town we live in of 12,000 population there are 5 foreigners. Two Germans that came over many years ago, and us. And we teach them English, so even better!
The winters are July and August just some cold nights., maybe down to 6ºC. Sometimes we get a frost. But during the day it rarely gets below 16ºC, usually it´s 25. MUCH better than England´s weather! And we have beautiful wildlife, tucans and hummingbirds etc. Wildlife that poses a problem are the possums, they take eggs and small chicks or ducklings, but this year I´ve not had a problem with them. I lost 2 ducklings to them last year. Then someone managed to run it over in the road. There are native wild cats and a type of wild dog. I have seen them twice, but it´s rare to see them where there is a population of people and domestic dogs. It´s great! And lots of people here have muscovies, the domesticated ones mainly, although there are parks that have the wild ones that take up residency, being native to S. America. Now, they ARE for eating and eggs.

Very interesting thank you for sharing. Sounds like a wonderful place to live, with so much warm weather are the mosquitos awful? I guess the Muscovy's have their work cut out for them. And Tucans and Hummers, we only get the Ruby Throated Hummers but I love them dearly they just left for warmer climate won't see them again till next April.

 

[chooks4life]

Sounds like a lovely place to live.

Great to hear you're keeping a journal. There's so much info I would not recall off the top of my head, having raised so many hundreds of birds, if I didn't keep a journal. Which reminds me that I've been slack with keeping an animal journal on my lamb, and I'm trying to tell others what worked with her scours and pulpy kidney --- ought to have been more meticulous on writing down what worked and what didn't, lol!

I so wish I'd kept a photographic journal of my animals, and I highly recommend you do; you're breeding and I think a photographic record of every animal is invaluable for a breeder. Not that breeders don't manage fine without them, but what a useful tool it can be. Hindsight isn't everything when your memory might have not recorded things it did not have a framework of comprehension for.

All the best.

 

[livininbrazil]

Very interesting thank you for sharing. Sounds like a wonderful place to live, with so much warm weather are the mosquitos awful? I guess the Muscovy's have their work cut out for them. And Tucans and Hummers, we only get the Ruby Throated Hummers but I love them dearly they just left for warmer climate won't see them again till next April.

You´re welcome, and we love it here. There´s not a lot of trouble with the mosquitos near the house. They are around at certain times of the day, worst in the late summer, just as everywhere. I think England has just as many! But Brazil has a huge campaign about not leaving standing water, mainly because of the dengue, so in general people are fairly careful. Here in our chácara the stream is at the bottom, away from the house. Now, at night when I go down there with the torch, it´s plagued with mosquitos. I think the muscovies get a good amount of protein! But generally it´s not too bad, as there´s only flowing water here, and although we have ponds, there´s water going in and out the other end. Of course, the muscovies have a wonderful time in the evening, especially the ducklings, they´re delightful to watch diving up and about to catch the flies. The best bit is when they take off after huge spiders! So funny to watch. We also get green ibis, lapwings, storks, water rails, guans, and very large egrets that the geese frighten off with their curiosity! So funny.

 

[livininbrazil]

Sounds like a lovely place to live.

Great to hear you're keeping a journal. There's so much info I would not recall off the top of my head, having raised so many hundreds of birds, if I didn't keep a journal. Which reminds me that I've been slack with keeping an animal journal on my lamb, and I'm trying to tell others what worked with her scours and pulpy kidney --- ought to have been more meticulous on writing down what worked and what didn't, lol!

I so wish I'd kept a photographic journal of my animals, and I highly recommend you do; you're breeding and I think a photographic record of every animal is invaluable for a breeder. Not that breeders don't manage fine without them, but what a useful tool it can be. Hindsight isn't everything when your memory might have not recorded things it did not have a framework of comprehension for.

All the best.

I already do this with photos, just because I love to take shots of them all, and of course, the camera has the date on! I´ve done it mostly with my chicks to compare them as they grow. I absolutley agree with what you said about not having a framework of comprehension for something....sometimes we don´t know that there´s something we should know until much later when we know it, but forget why we needed to know it! Hah!
As regards the journal, I´ve also started a blog which I can add to as I wish, and put photos on too. Then if someone wants to read it they can.
We´ve been toying with getting a couple of sheep, but your comment on keeping a journal on scours and pulpy kidney is worth a second thought!

 

[Miss Lydia]

You´re welcome, and we love it here. There´s not a lot of trouble with the mosquitos near the house. They are around at certain times of the day, worst in the late summer, just as everywhere. I think England has just as many! But Brazil has a huge campaign about not leaving standing water, mainly because of the dengue, so in general people are fairly careful. Here in our chácara the stream is at the bottom, away from the house. Now, at night when I go down there with the torch, it´s plagued with mosquitos. I think the muscovies get a good amount of protein! But generally it´s not too bad, as there´s only flowing water here, and although we have ponds, there´s water going in and out the other end. Of course, the muscovies have a wonderful time in the evening, especially the ducklings, they´re delightful to watch diving up and about to catch the flies. The best bit is when they take off after huge spiders! So funny to watch. We also get green ibis, lapwings, storks, water rails, guans, and very large egrets that the geese frighten off with their curiosity! So funny.

So since this is your thread, you need to share some pics of these beautiful birds living close by even the scovy's . We live in the mountains of North Carolina and we are blessed to have herons living below us in the river. sometimes wood ducks come through and Mallards and of course Canada geese, and a few other species of ducks, but none live here year round other than the feral Muscovy's that have flown away from peoples homes. I love wild life and living where you do is like watching a national geographic show. So please share if you'd like.

 

[livininbrazil]

Well, I´ll try. I had put some pics on a while back of my geese and some chickens, but then for some reason I wasn´t able to anymore, so I gave up. I´ll try again, though. We´re a bit out in the sticks, so sometimes the internet just isn´t good enough to cope with pics, it seems.

OK, well it managed to do the small version......these are my three gals investigating the Great Egret. It was looking for its lunch, they were looking to interrogate!!!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Well, I´ll try. I had put some pics on a while back of my geese and some chickens, but then for some reason I wasn´t able to anymore, so I gave up. I´ll try again, though. We´re a bit out in the sticks, so sometimes the internet just isn´t good enough to cope with pics, it seems.

OK, well it managed to do the small version......these are my three gals investigating the Great Egret. It was looking for its lunch, they were looking to interrogate!!!

Look at all that grass, boy I bet they are some happy geese.