Goose lovers – please help!!

[LightningTFarm]

I love the high pitched happy peep sound they make. They are fun to watch and listen to. By the way, love your new avatar.

They now make lots of noise each morning when I let them out, like they are greeting the new day. I got them some toys with bells yesterday, but they seem a little tentative about them. They have played with them a little bit, though.

I'm trying to take better pictures of them, but it is still difficult because they don't really trust me yet. When I start getting too close they give me the stink eye and start moving away. I did get a pretty decent picture of them in the pool this morning, just after I'd refilled it. I'll keep trying!

 

[Triplell]

Thanks Celtic, I just took some pictures of them and will upload them tonite when I get done with chores. Tommarrow I will get some meat maker, it is the only other choice I have. I am thinkin of mixing the layer with the meat maker and all the oats they want and whole corn I divide into 2 feedings. I really don't have much of a selection other wise. My local feed store will only carry these two and gamebird breeder in the spring and summer. I can have some made but will have to buy by the ton and that would take me all winter too use up. I feel the feed would be too old. What do you think or anyone else for that matter. I also give them a head of cabbage twice a week and am also giving them some apples we have left from harvest.
Thanks again , Heidi

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Personally would be looking for a new feed store, I am not one to settle though, and we have 3 stores within 45 minutes off us if we leave the island. No feed stores here on the island.

I know a few people who have feed done at mills. If stored correctly it can be fine in large quantities.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Janet will get the extra box ordered this week and on TS way to you.

 

[Iain Utah]

Lightning, I love the update and new picture!!! You are going to be the best goose momma. Those boys are very lucky to have you!!

 

[Iain Utah]

I couldn't ship the final set of geese out this week because we finally got to go camping in the San Rafael Swell. Be prepared for picture overload... sorry no geese shots.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I couldn't ship the final set of geese out this week because we finally got to go camping in the San Rafael Swell. Be prepared for picture overload... sorry no geese shots.

Beautiful pics, and looks like ya'll had a great time. what is the writing on the wall?

 

[Iain Utah]

Thanks! We had an amazing time! That picture is part of a large 2000 year old pictograph panel.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Thanks! We had an amazing time! That picture is part of a large 2000 year old pictograph panel.

How cool I'd love to see it in person. Does anyone know who did it?

 

[Iain Utah]

Taken from Emery County, Utah's information site:

One of the highlights of the entire San Rafael Swell is the mysterious Buckhorn Wash pictograph panel spanning over 130 feet. A pictograph is painted onto a surface, and a petroglyph is carved or pecked into the stone. There are some faint petroglyphs here, but the red pictograph figures are the stars of this site! The main panel was painted well over 2,000 years ago by a Indian culture archeologists have named “Barrier Canyon Culture”. The Barrier Canyon people were an archaic age hunter-gatherer society, living in caves or brush shelters. The red pigment was created using powdered hematite, and possibly mixed with animal fat, eggs, or some other fluid. For a brush, they may have used fingers or brushes made from animal fur or slender grasses. When painted on freshly exposed sandstone, the stone absorbs the pigments, thus preserving them for thousands of years. The images here are fascinating, and defy interpretation.