Spirit - the amazing grey dewlap toulouse gander!

[Marty1876]

Hi Miss Lydia, Hi Iain.

Naught Sammy, glad you set him straight! If any of my geese are anywhere near as aggressive as the embdens my mom used to keep, they are moving to grandmas, or to the dinner table. Dude is madly in love with one of the sebbies. He's found his way to her a few times now. When they are in seperate fenching, they both sit there one on each side of the fence, next to each other. Poor things.

My mom got a gray toulouse at an auction yesterday. She's trying to talk me out of Dude, so she can put her with the new gray girl. Iain, any thoughts on my lending out Dude to my mom? She's got large fenced areas and a building for them. She doesn't want to keep them with her chinese geese.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Hi Miss Lydia, Hi Iain.

Naught Sammy, glad you set him straight! If any of my geese are anywhere near as aggressive as the embdens my mom used to keep, they are moving to grandmas, or to the dinner table. Dude is madly in love with one of the sebbies. He's found his way to her a few times now. When they are in seperate fenching, they both sit there one on each side of the fence, next to each other. Poor things.

My mom got a gray toulouse at an auction yesterday. She's trying to talk me out of Dude, so she can put her with the new gray girl. Iain, any thoughts on my lending out Dude to my mom? She's got large fenced areas and a building for them. She doesn't want to keep them with her chinese geese.

Hey Marty hope your feeling better.

 

[Marty1876]

Good to see you!

Yes, Thank the Almighty, I'm finally feeling better. I'm not a good sleeper, but I've sure been doing lots of it just lately!

My sebbies are getting very hissy at me. Today we're supposed to be working on some buildings for goose pairs and trios.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Good to see you!

Yes, Thank the Almighty, I'm finally feeling better. I'm not a good sleeper, but I've sure been doing lots of it just lately!

My sebbies are getting very hissy at me. Today we're supposed to be working on some buildings for goose pairs and trios.

Everyone seems to be working on pens for breeding, Oh well sigh maybe one day for me and mine. Rest is good for the body... Glad you were able to get some.

 

[Marty1876]

I almost envy your simplicity miss lydia. We've talked about cutting back our birds. It's not so bad in the summer and fall, but the constand hauling of water in the winter, and the issues with breed purity thus breeding pens is a pain.

 

[Iain Utah]

Hey Marty, just curious as to why your mom picked up a single random Toulouse goose? I don't mind you loaning Dude out (not that you need my permission

), but I thought you had an extra buff girl to pair him up with this spring?

Setting up breeding pens are a PITA. We finally got Pistol/Shimmer in their own pen. Pistol is not happy about being separated, but hope he will get over it soon enough. He has fresh grass, kiddy pool, shelter, and a pretty girl. Next is to get the African pairs pen ready.............

 

[Marty1876]

My mom is a softy, and has taken the girl from an older lady going into the hospital for hip surgery. I don't know where she (the lady) got her, but she didn't have a mate for her last year either, so she laid and sat useless eggs. Since she was gray, and mom knew I had a lone gray boy, she asked me. The buffs aren't laying yet, so it's no big deal to let the healthy buff trio hang out and make eggs if they get around to it. Nobody's really paired, and dude has a thing for a sebbie girl in the next pen. They hang out togather at the fence.

I wanted to talk to you, because I know you care about them, and I didn't want you to feel like I just got rid or him or ate him.

 

[Iain Utah]

Sounds like a good plan then to pair Dude up with your mom's new goose. Speaking of which.... I just got a call from a lady I sold a pair of cayugas to last year. She had rescued a pair of Toulouse locally and her gander was just killed by the neighbor's german shepherd, so she asked if I had an extra gander for her lonely goose. Funky turned out to be a gander (and I have 2 too many ganders), so I am going to let her have him. Now... if I could find a mate for my other buff gander, I'd have even gender numbers which would make life easier at my place.

By the way, I saw Spirit attempting to mate with Ember today. Talk about motivation to get him to use that leg. lol

 

[Marty1876]

Sounds like a good plan then to pair Dude up with your mom's new goose. Speaking of which.... I just got a call from a lady I sold a pair of cayugas to last year. She had rescued a pair of Toulouse locally and her gander was just killed by the neighbor's german shepherd, so she asked if I had an extra gander for her lonely goose. Funky turned out to be a gander (and I have 2 too many ganders), so I am going to let her have him. Now... if I could find a mate for my other buff gander, I'd have even gender numbers which would make life easier at my place.

By the way, I saw Spirit attempting to mate with Ember today. Talk about motivation to get him to use that leg. lol

LOL, I hope it inspires him! It'll certainly be self rewarding.....

I guess I should go feather test the healthy buffs, and see for sure what I have. I think at this point it's 2 girls and a boy, but honestly, I'm just not sure on one of them. Bigger than the known girl, smaller than the presumed boy.... I guess I'd better start videotapping what goes on at the swimming hole.

 

[Iain Utah]

Funky has gone to his new home. I am so happy for him!! Didn't think anyone would ever want that boy, but the lady didn't care what he looked like so long as he was mild mannered. That brings my total number of geese to 31, which is still quite a few more than my original target goal when I first rescued the geese.