First gosling!

[cottontail farm]

I've posted here a couple of times about how annoying my geese are (they were actually put on craigslist once for bad behavior until I felt guilty and pulled the ad) well this week they have finally redeemed themselves. My 3 year old goose set a nest way under our chicken coop and now we have a baby! Out of 11 eggs 10 were duds. It's really fun to see all 3 geese fussing over the little one and so far the adults are being better mannered than before they had a baby. Go figure.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

So adorable. My geese almost became dinner this spring.

 

[cottontail farm]

So adorable. My geese almost became dinner this spring.

I literally LOl'd. Yeah... mine too. I get the irony. Didn't even want the 3 that we had and now we have 4! They are SO less annoying now that they have an actual "job" to do.

 

[Wicked Storm]

FELT YA THERE haha

 

[sourland]

Geese truly believe that 'it takes a village to raise a child'. It becomes a flock job.

 

[cottontail farm]

Ok so I'm confused. It appears she's gone right back to laying? The first egg I thought was a fluke, like she had just found one I missed when cleaning up the nest. But no, she had another one this morning, convered it up with feathers when she took the baby out. I put the egg in water, it's fresh.
Do they do this? Should someone tell her it's July?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Precious how geese take raising so seriously! I love it! My geese are 13 and 8 yrs old and every year during breeding season I say to my self “why am I doing this” it’s a good thing I love em’ Congrats on the gosling! I have no idea why she’s back laying maybe it will just be a few an done.