Gander with rather strange behavior.

[Franki]

It was the got a tude site at the bottom of your signature.

 

[Tevyes Dad]

It was the got a tude site at the bottom of your signature.

OK, that was the book. I originally wrote this for my mom. She lives on the other side of the country near my sister. A few years back she had a stroke and now she has some limitations. One of which is she can't really use a computer so she wouldn't be able to follow things on this forum or get email from me with updates. So I put that book together so she could share in our duck adventure.

The neat part, I think is that I wrote it (mostly) as it happened. Honestly, after the Raccoon attack, I could only take notes for a couple weeks so those few pages were taken from notes and memory. Fortunately by that time most of the story had been told - except for Lucky, Noir & Mystique.

Since I ended up with a PDF, I thought I might as well share with anyone who wants to see some of our successes and failures as novice duck owners. Plus everyone loves duckling pics

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[Miss Lydia]

Would that be my intro page or my book? Either way, glad you liked it.

I just finished reading too an enjoyed it very much and the pics to go along are so great. I have to say the last pic of Entie complete with egg was really cute. I do remember when you posted about losing your 2 girls and how sad that was. Thanks again for sharing your flock with us. It was so sweet.

 

[Tevyes Dad]

Glad you liked it. In that picture, the egg was shell-less and I think it caught her completely by surprise.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Glad you liked it. In that picture, the egg was shell-less and I think it caught her completely by surprise.

Just slipped right out. lol

 

[Tevyes Dad]

Yesterday, Yvonne and I went back to the fairgrounds fairly late just to check in on our friends. The same goose and his GF (I think she's an African) swam across the pond and came over to visit us. When we first saw them, they were on the farthest side of the pond, so they really didn't have to come see us. They swam across as a couple and then climbed up the embankment and over to the fence. He came right up against the fence again and she hung back about 10 ft or so for the most part. He engaged us both and actually seemed to track me a little more this visit. We both scratched his chest and he seemed to like it, he still didn't want any food so I don't know if that is he doesn't like all-flock, he wasn't hungry or he is hunger striking??? We could easily identify his girlfriend because she has a scabby looking growth on her knob (like it was injured a long time ago, and has long since healed - I think it is more scar tissue than scab.) In my first post, you can see it barely on the right-most picture.

So although it is still awful that any goose is abandoned, I feel better knowing that this goose does have a GF and therefore knows he is a goose

. Liking people is OK considering where he lives. Since we have now identified these two personally and it seems we may have encounters in the future... We have given them names so we can refer to them easily

.

Since the gander likes his chest scratched (and my wife uses the term scritched from some cute overload site), he is called Scritchy.
Since the goose has the scab on her knob, we will call her Scabby, (Normally I would think that would be a terrible name, but it is kind of like Abby that goes along with Scritchy so Scritchy and Scabby sounds OK.... Maybe?


Yvonne & Scritchy (living up to his name).


Scabby hanging back just enough...

 

[Miss Lydia]

Yesterday, Yvonne and I went back to the fairgrounds fairly late just to check in on our friends. The same goose and his GF (I think she's an African) swam across the pond and came over to visit us. When we first saw them, they were on the farthest side of the pond, so they really didn't have to come see us. They swam across as a couple and then climbed up the embankment and over to the fence. He came right up against the fence again and she hung back about 10 ft or so for the most part. He engaged us both and actually seemed to track me a little more this visit. We both scratched his chest and he seemed to like it, he still didn't want any food so I don't know if that is he doesn't like all-flock, he wasn't hungry or he is hunger striking??? We could easily identify his girlfriend because she has a scabby looking growth on her knob (like it was injured a long time ago, and has long since healed - I think it is more scar tissue than scab.) In my first post, you can see it barely on the right-most picture.

So although it is still awful that any goose is abandoned, I feel better knowing that this goose does have a GF and therefore knows he is a goose

. Liking people is OK considering where he lives. Since we have now identified these two personally and it seems we may have encounters in the future... We have given them names so we can refer to them easily

.

Since the gander likes his chest scratched (and my wife uses the term scritched from some cute overload site), he is called Scritchy.
Since the goose has the scab on her knob, we will call her Scabby, (Normally I would think that would be a terrible name, but it is kind of like Abby that goes along with Scritchy so Scritchy and Scabby sounds OK.... Maybe?


Yvonne & Scritchy (living up to his name).


Scabby hanging back just enough...

It's so sweet of you both to take an interest in these birds and so sweet he want's to interact with y'all. Do they look in good weight? he looks a little slim. Both are so gorgeous I just can't imagine how anyone can do this just dump them off. Thank goodness there are caring people to help them out[you 2] hopefully they will start eating soon. Have you tried mixing scratch or whole corn in with the All flock? even a small amount might get them started eating.

 

[Franki]

Bless your hearts. This is so very sad to me. I can't imagine someone doing this. Is it any possibility you could contact someone in charge and take these guys home?
What state is is in?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Bless your hearts. This is so very sad to me. I can't imagine someone doing this. Is it any possibility you could contact someone in charge and take these guys home?
What state is is in?

His sig, says Montana.

 

[Franki]

Oh right, didn't read that, thanks Miss Lydia