Embden Goose only eating wildfowl pellets and corn

[livininbrazil]

livininbrazil I LOVE these pics! I want to know more about your life there (how are all the senses affected?) Just if you have time or inclination~
Thanks again~

Not so much lack of inclination, more like lack of internet!!!...as you can imagine by seeing where we live!

Senses...the stars seem really close at night, there is constant bird-song and insects making noise, when it´s it´s warm at night there´s a continual "frog song" going on in the marsh....The sky is a deep blue that I never saw in England, but the most noticeable thing I notice is that there are no real seasons...."summer" has warm nights, and plenty of rain. "winter" has colder nights, but that´s variable, and is basically dry. The plants grow not so much due to the heat and the sun, it seems, more depending on the start of the rainy season.

I took this pic from the sea. We went with friends to a remote beach about 3 hours drive away...only us there. Mountains in the background, sea clear as clear......and more Atlantic Rainforest in the background.

Perfect weather...overcast but warm, and a storm threatening...senses electric, Kalsti!

 

[livininbrazil]

Beautiful pictures, and are these wild geese from this part of the world or just dumped geese like what's others do in all parts of the world? they are lovely looks like a Toulouse is one of the breeds, but a lot of geese look alike to me. I love that pic from behind your home, and glad to hear all the rain forest isn't gone. But just beautiful.

Well, as in the States, these types of geese (greylag descendants) and the asians were imports at some point in the past, of course. This is a controlled park. They put the geese here to make it beautiful.....people don´t tend to dump these birds, as there aren´t a lot about, so there´s always someone wanting them. My 3 sister geese are descended from geese at this park, but I have no idea which.

I think I can spot about 4 or 5 different breed-types in this pic!

 

[livininbrazil]

Hey, Lydia, did you see the bigger pics that I managed to post of my goslings in the Goose Breeding thread?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Hey, Lydia, did you see the bigger pics that I managed to post of my goslings in the Goose Breeding thread?

Nope will go lok now, believe it or not I pulled myself away from the computer long enough to get the dog hair up off the floor.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Well, as in the States, these types of geese (greylag descendants) and the asians were imports at some point in the past, of course. This is a controlled park. They put the geese here to make it beautiful.....people don´t tend to dump these birds, as there aren´t a lot about, so there´s always someone wanting them. My 3 sister geese are descended from geese at this park, but I have no idea which.

I think I can spot about 4 or 5 different breed-types in this pic!

Did you actually get those 3 sisters from this park? looking at pic again I see one that looks like white Chinese also. Very pretty geese.

 

[livininbrazil]

Nope will go lok now, believe it or not I pulled myself away from the computer long enough to get the dog hair up off the floor.

Addictive isn´t it?! Just imagaine next year when so many your part of the world are over-run with pics of goslings...you too, I hope.
And yes, there are more chinese geese here than the kind I have.

 

[livininbrazil]

Did you actually get those 3 sisters from this park? looking at pic again I see one that looks like white Chinese also. Very pretty geese.

Our friends went to this park for a walk one day and went home with 5 goslings! They had space, a river.....no problem. Those goslings grew and produced their own goslings...we took on 3 of them, and another friend took on 2...all females!
When I wanted more the following year, I went back to this same park to ask, but they said that they´d not had any goslings that year, so wouldn´t sell any. I hunted about and asked around, and eventually found a farmer who had some he´d sell me, but it was difficult to find some that weren´t chinese or chinese-cross.
A curious thing. There are a lot of geese there. Now, curious is that the asian geese tend to stick with other asians, and the commons tend to stick with the commons...interesting, eh? Maybe just coincidence.......
So, I like going to this park to see how many look like mine (most of them!)

and guess which ones could be uncles aunts or cousins (most of them!)

There are 60 or so there all together, I love to see them.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Our friends went to this park for a walk one day and went home with 5 goslings! They had space, a river.....no problem. Those goslings grew and produced their own goslings...we took on 3 of them, and another friend took on 2...all females!
When I wanted more the following year, I went back to this same park to ask, but they said that they´d not had any goslings that year, so wouldn´t sell any. I hunted about and asked around, and eventually found a farmer who had some he´d sell me, but it was difficult to find some that weren´t chinese or chinese-cross.
A curious thing. There are a lot of geese there. Now, curious is that the asian geese tend to stick with other asians, and the commons tend to stick with the commons...interesting, eh? Maybe just coincidence.......
So, I like going to this park to see how many look like mine (most of them!)

and guess which ones could be uncles aunts or cousins (most of them!)

There are 60 or so there all together, I love to see them.

I bet you enjoy visiting this park, No parks close to us and haven't heard of any geese roaming around in our Mt. River but their is a large group of feral Muscovy's that live along the river, thank goodness not on our part no telling how many I'd have if they did.

we do have Canada geese in spring thru fall. Love to watch them fly along the river.

 

[livininbrazil]

That´s one type of goose I´ve not seen here yet, Canada. Used to see loads of them in our local park in England, pooped eveywhere, people used to complain about them!

 

[Miss Lydia]

That´s one type of goose I´ve not seen here yet, Canada. Used to see loads of them in our local park in England, pooped eveywhere, people used to complain about them!

What only Canada geese poop everywhere??? people complain about them here too.