Gaggle of Geese Lovers

Cocoa always tried to eat my hair.
Eat hair, you say?
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The proud fathers are always vigilant.
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My boys often seem more interested in parenting than the females do. Anyone else notice that in their flocks?
I can attest to this. The first brood were so sheltered compared to their parents I raised. My gander would swoop down like super man the instant a little one would start crying for no apparent reason and shelter it.
 
The difference between a few days old and four weeks old. It can be lost on you until you see side by side comparisons. It never ceases to amaze me.

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I keep trying to remember if my other poultry species have such an incredible growth rate, and I don't thing they do. Geese are really something else.
 

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