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Heck no, I have some chicks out in my sunroom that are practically college age and growing beards.
It's just been so cold I can't kick their little fuzzy butts out yet...I have issues.
Don't feel bad! Last year, Feb 13 to be exact -that last bad ice storm, we had a hatch, naturally brooded. The weather was so bad those few days that everyone was in the barn. We had chickens then and they terrorized the Mama (Ruby) and knocked a bunch of stuff onto the nes,t ran Ruby off and she never could get back to her nest. When I finally found out what had happened, we mover her and her nest into the brooder room, but she freaked. We brought them in, but only one survived. Hootie lived in the tub and went from the rubbermaid bucket to a rabbit cage and finally a dog crate before we could integrate her into another group if youngsters. She was 2 months old! She's never learned how to interact with other geese. She lives with them, but she' like an autistic child. She's happiest alone (which is really dangerous) and talks to sticks and puddles. She doesn't understand why we sent her away, either. She was as well-socialzed as she could be living with us in the house. I would strongly advise against anyone having only one gosling. It's just unfair to them.
On the bright side, she took to her "new babies" and was as good a mamma as one could want. We had to take a major chance and put her with some 3-day-olds at last. She was terrified by older goslings. It was weird to see 2-week-olds bullying and terrorizing her. We'd have to just get her back out. Once she realized the little guys weren't going to hurt her, she adopted them. Now if we could just get her interested in a beau......
Oh My poor little goose.
And I want to see the fuzzy butts with beards
