My Africans (A close call! 1/05)

[Puddle Foot Farm]

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Good job with solidarity. I would've melted.. And had a bunch of bad geese on my hands. Go you!

Oh, and.. I call test eggs!

Look to the future.

I hope you had a nice Thanksgiving!!

 

[Soccer Mom]

I had a great Thanksgiving! I hope you did as well.

A night spent out on the big scary pond has done wonders. Last night they actually met me at the gate, followed me into the donkey pen, and then rushed into their coop without prompting.

I'm so relieved that they hated their night of freedom.

 

[Soccer Mom]

Just a post holiday update. Sadly, two males have been rehomed. Schnitzel and Gazpacho are gone. I really miss Schnitzel, but he was being so picked on. I wish I could say I missed Gazpacho, but he was such a problem child that things are much calmer without him.

I had a scary moment this week. First, it has been a bad week. I've lost 3 hens to hawks and my chickens are on lockdown until we can put netting over their pen. They aren't happy with me. Three days ago I had just found the carcass of one of my little Polish hens (and I had just seen her alive moments ago!!!!!!) when my DH came running up from the back pasture to tell me that one of the geese had been kicked in the head by a donkey.

They had gotten in a bad habit of harassing the donkeys at dinner time, trying to get into the sweet feed. Worse still, the goose kicked was Wheezie, my favorite girl! DH said she was lethargic and bleeding from her nose, so he picked her up and warmed her under his jacket and placed her in the Casa De Goose where it was warmer and quiet. I went down to get her and bring her into the house. I didn't think I could do much other than take her up to the house and make her comfortable. I went down there and sure enough, I only had 5 geese at the gate. No Wheezie.

I went into the Casa De Goose, calling out to her. Wheezie ALWAYS answers. She can't seem to help it. If you call out "goose!" she honks in return. So I go in calling and there is only silence. I was terrified she would be dead. Instead I found nothing. Just DH's jacket with a small amount of blood. I go outside calling and I hear her.

The little toot was in the middle of the pond. She kept diving and washing her head and she would NOT come out. The other geese came running and Wheezie's mate, JR swam out to her. 3 days later she has a slight lump on her head, but acts just like herself. Yesterday she was so feisty that she flew over the fence to see me when I came down to feed. I'm so relieved that she is fine--and I'm locking the geese out of the donkey's pen at feed time.

 

[Wifezilla]

Oh geez!!!!

Feather kids give you are many gray hairs as the 2 legged kind!

Glad she is ok!

 

[Goat_Walker]

So glad she made it and wasnt seriously damaged!

 

[Puddle Foot Farm]

Haha, I can totally imagining this happening to me.. Glad she's okay! I have no idea how many times I've ran outside looking for the geese because I couldn't see them out of the kitchen window..

Sorry about having to get rid of the boys! We might have to thin the herd to.. Luna is acting very boyish (attacking me whenever I come into the pen).. But they haven't started picking on each other yet. Hopefully, most of the chinese are girls. Geese need to be easier to sex!

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

glad she made it!

but did she had a... (you know its coming..)

a goose-egg on her head??

hee hee hee these are the yolks, folks...


its so cold here that our geese walked out of their coop and into the snow...then turned around and walked back inside.

 

[BellLisamo]

O my!!!!! What a tough lil honker! I have to say "Schnitzel and Gazpacho " are such awesome names. Got a Chowder?

 

[Soccer Mom]

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Yup. And a Panini, too.

Youngest son has told me that the next girl has to be named Ceviche.

 

[Friend2Fowl]

What happened to the stories!?!?? I loved reading about your geese, please do post more