I´ll say they´re comical! I´m trying to keep a pair of pied cross-breeds separate from my experimental auto-sexings. I want them to produce pieds, but I don´t want the young gander messing with the quto-sexing stuff down in the marsh. So, he thinks differently..he likes the pond down there better than he lit=kes his kiddie-pool up here. Well, understandable, I suppose. so, he took off, left his lady up here near the house, and off to the pond down below.
And there he was, having a great time showing off in the pond.. and along comes one of the geese that´s supposed to be auto-sexing that hasn´t got a male attached to her yet (for some reason my males don´t seem to like either of the two geese I bought in! Typical!) So, over I hope to get him out of there a bit nifty-like to get him back up with his Mrs.
So, I chuck some bits of cabbage into their pool up here to get them distracted from there down below, and in they go. Great.
Methinks, I´ll go and get the hose and top up the pond for them... No Way! say they! SNAKE ! They shot off out of there like firecrackers!
Right now they´re both up at the top fence gazing longingly down the hill to the pond. They will not use their kiddie pool here to breed, and if I let them go down the bottom, I know he´ll breed with the ones that I don´t want him to....
Plans of mice and men......and geese.
