Karessa's eggs hatched in her nest! With pics! **Update!**

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This morning hubby told me that Kasper refused to get out of their house and that he was guarding it with his life. I thought it was possible that her eggs had hatched. So off we go to battle the beasts to see if she has new babies. When we get out to their pen, this is what we encountered.....

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Kasper was on alert and ready to battle for his life!! I thought I could hear some peeping but with both Kasper & Karessa honking, then the other geese joining in, the roosters all over the barnyard thinking its a game and they join the malay, and of course it wouldn't be complete without the ducks joining in, I couldn't be sure.

Kasper charges hubby...good he's out of the house! Karessa comes out not so willingly and hubby finds a broken egg and panics. I could still hear that baby but it sounded muffled. And the other egg is still there. Hubby looks all over and can't find the baby. I can hear it, he can hear it. He tears the nest apart trying to find it. Its cries are getting more panicked and now I'm on my hands and knees encouraging hubby to find it. No baby. Karessa & Kasper are freaking out, I'm freaking out and baby is crying.

It sounds like the baby is UNDER the house. But how?? There's no breaks in the inside of the house. Hubby starts reaching under the house and sure enough, that's where the baby was. Hubby pulls him out...safe and sound. That must be why Kasper was guarding the way he was with his head out of the doorway the way it was.
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So hubby hands me the baby, I inspect it, its a little boy!! I give him some water, which he drinks heartily. Hubby fixes their house back up and fixes it so little boy can't go back under the house, makes a ramp so he can go up it with mama and papa and we put little boy back in. Karessa and Kasper go back in with their little one.

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All is good in the world.......
 
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Karessa was out showing off her baby a little while ago. The little boy was dutifully following mama everywhere. It was so darn cute to watch. Kasper was watching to make sure no one came close.

Isn't it funny how that instinct is there and they just know what to do?

Laurie
 
Karessa's second egg has hatched! I don't know if its a boy or girl because they won't let me close enough to see. LOL

But the little boy has a name! Its TROUBLE and I'm keeping him!

I was looking out my kitchen window and noticed that Kasper was looking all over his pen for something so I told hubby that I think the little boy got out of the house again. While he was getting his shoes on, I went out on the front porch to see what was going on and in the middle of Peter and Petunia's pen was the little gosling!! Peter and Petunia were fussing over him, Tansy & Tundra were trying to get to him as well.

The little stinker decided to go visiting his aunts and uncles!!! I yelled to Steven that the gosling was over with Peter & Petunia and he took off out the door. Well its like the troublemaker knew what I said because he ran from Peter & Petunia's pen, into Tansy & Tundra's pen and then into his parents pen and up into their house! This baby can't be more than a day old! LOL

So his name is TROUBLE because I can already see what kind of things he's going to stir up! I love him!

Laurie
 
Those darn babies can be stuborn that way and it panics you cause they can get trampled on and they think they are big enuf to leave mom and dad DARN KIDS! LOLOL
 
I love that first photo of Kasper...What a good daddy goose.

Congrats on the gorgeous babies.
 

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