No one warned me that these are just the CUTEST little guys going !!!
I looked all over for geese last year, but never could get any. Today, wouldn't you know it, they arrived late at the feed store so just HAPPENED to be there when we came in for feed.
We debated for a while whether we really wanted to add more poultry right now. As it is, I have some buff orps and light brahmas in the brooder, and I never imagined having TWO brooders going at once.
Still, we tried for so long last year to get them, and our grass IS getting high in the front. We decided to take the plunge. I wasn't ready for them, though, and so I paid and asked the feed store to hold them till closing today, or tomorrow. We ended up making it back just before closing today (about two hours we saw them) and almost all except the ones we'd paid for were already gone.
Sooooo .... we are now the proud parents of 3 little goslings. And I think "parent" is the right word. They are SO different from ducklings or chicks. Maybe we've already spoiled them, but they cry constantly if they can't see us, and what they REALLY want is to be held and groomed while they nuzzle our fingers and drift off to sleep.
They are the most precious and friendly little things going.
I just hope they don't grow up and turn into terrors in the breeding season, LOL.
But for now we are enjoying them. I'll probably have tons of questions later, but so far everything seems pretty straightforward with them. They aren't hungry, but have made a mess of the water. And they are easy to keep warm too, compared to chicks. Just not easy to settle on their own, LOL.
I might have to try the stuffed animal trick, but so far they aren't buying anything but being held or at least talked to while the can see us.
Gotta go feed the ducks ... Baka is screaming for her evening hand-out that she expect EVERY night!
trish
I looked all over for geese last year, but never could get any. Today, wouldn't you know it, they arrived late at the feed store so just HAPPENED to be there when we came in for feed.
We debated for a while whether we really wanted to add more poultry right now. As it is, I have some buff orps and light brahmas in the brooder, and I never imagined having TWO brooders going at once.
Still, we tried for so long last year to get them, and our grass IS getting high in the front. We decided to take the plunge. I wasn't ready for them, though, and so I paid and asked the feed store to hold them till closing today, or tomorrow. We ended up making it back just before closing today (about two hours we saw them) and almost all except the ones we'd paid for were already gone.
Sooooo .... we are now the proud parents of 3 little goslings. And I think "parent" is the right word. They are SO different from ducklings or chicks. Maybe we've already spoiled them, but they cry constantly if they can't see us, and what they REALLY want is to be held and groomed while they nuzzle our fingers and drift off to sleep.
They are the most precious and friendly little things going.
I just hope they don't grow up and turn into terrors in the breeding season, LOL.
But for now we are enjoying them. I'll probably have tons of questions later, but so far everything seems pretty straightforward with them. They aren't hungry, but have made a mess of the water. And they are easy to keep warm too, compared to chicks. Just not easy to settle on their own, LOL.
I might have to try the stuffed animal trick, but so far they aren't buying anything but being held or at least talked to while the can see us.
Gotta go feed the ducks ... Baka is screaming for her evening hand-out that she expect EVERY night!
trish
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