The African and Chinese goose thread!!

[Miss Lydia]

Here is a video taken on a rainy day, April discovers a new puddle - she gets really excited about it around 2:17 mins in, even though their pool is a mere few feet away. Silly goose.

They are so cute, geese make me think of very tall 2 year olds with feathers.

 

[pinkchick]

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Finally the geese have got it!!!!! The have been successfully going to into their coop for 4 nights now. No chasing and rounding up. They see this goosey mamma coming with the feed bucket and they take off running into their coop. WooooooWHhhhhhhooooooT!

Thank you again for your advise and suggestions friends!

 

[Going Bhonkers]

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Finally the geese have got it!!!!! The have been successfully going to into their coop for 4 nights now. No chasing and rounding up. They see this goosey mamma coming with the feed bucket and they take off running into their coop. WooooooWHhhhhhhooooooT!

Thank you again for your advise and suggestions friends!

Glad to hear it!

 

[gooseville]

Hank and I

Chachi and my daughter

Baby Chachi-safety first

 

[gooseville]

Spoiled Hank

Herbie, Jill, and Jingle

Earl and Rico -skating to Swan Lake

 

[Miss Lydia]

Hank and I


Chachi and my daughter


Baby Chachi-safety first

Adorable pics, but that last one is

 

[Miss Lydia]

Spoiled Hank


Herbie, Jill, and Jingle

Earl and Rico -skating to Swan Lake

cute, I give Earl and Rico a 10 on the skating part..

 

[clmschke]

Two photos today: #1 is Sissy on her nest. She started laying early. I made the decision to move it from underneath the hedge where there was no ability to protect her or her nest at night to a nice spot in the garage next to their pen. She took it in stride. Every other day she walks out of the pen in the morning and straight to her nest. I've not checked it for a while, but Dave says there is 6 eggs in there. Sissy's posse of 3 ganders stand by while she's in there. All five of the ganders are pretty protective of their girl, but those 3 are especially.

We are looking to add more females to the flock. This being their first year here, we will be adding more girls this coming spring.

This is Percy in the one pool that is kept open. Fortunately a warm spell made those large chunks of ice melt. I was also able to get that blue pool emptied and put away. I'm guessing that the only reason the pink pool has enough water in it in the mornings to allow me to dump it out and refill is the fact that it is actually 2 pink pools nested inside one another. During the summer, I had 4 baby pools and one larger + deeper wading pool filled and cleaned every day. Once it got cooler, I reduced the number of open pools and just threw one of them inside the other.

This morning I was a bit slow in refilling the pool and Percy honked loudly until I got to it. His honk is unique among the gaggle. He says loudly, "OCKLE!" emphasis on the O. We call him our Big Buck Goose.

 

[Iain Utah]

Awesome pictures!!

 

[gooseville]

Thanks!!!