The African and Chinese goose thread!!

[Ackthecat]

King Ethel in front, Wolfie on the second step, King Ethel thinks I belong to him






King Ethel





Wolfie, he? or she is an oddball but love this goose

 

[drumstick diva]

Jchny Loved your pig stories - I think good people make good animals. You treat kindly and with respect, and you get it back.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

King Ethel in front, Wolfie on the second step, King Ethel thinks I belong to him






King Ethel





Wolfie, he? or she is an oddball but love this goose

Cant see the legs well, but the necks tell me a pair!

Jchny Loved your pig stories - I think good people make good animals. You treat kindly and with respect, and you get it back.

Thank you! I totally agree. If you give them love, its that simple that what you get back. I couldn't do it any other way.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Oh my, yes wild hogs are dangerous. Feral potbelly pigs are a big issue up north, so many are abandoned because they got too big.
Domestic pigs are pretty easy, I swore I would NEVER raise them. 3 years ago, we got our first feeder pig, his name was (you guessed it) Bacon. I spent several months researching how to keep them. Fermenting the feed is key to a less stinky pig! I treat everything here the same, no matter why they are here, and what the end purpose is for them. So he was raised like a pet. After raising him, and coming to terms with the final "bad day" I felt pretty good about keeping them again. I process all of our food animals here on the farm, I want to know its done humanely and respect them for feeding my family. I also want to know how they were fed, what they ate. My pigs are around my birds and goats, never had any issue with them eating or biting at them.
We have had 10 hogs so far, and now have a breeding pair of Hampshire to start raising our own. I spend a lot of extra time keeping them social so when my sow births, she won't be a problem to handle. Out of the 10, I have yet to have an aggressive pig. I am still very cautious and watch body language but am impressed with how intelligent they are. My "large Black" boar weighed about 450 and acted like an overgrown puppy! He would rub along the fence, and whine to get a back scratch and ear rubs. I wore steel toe boots around him, thats a lotta weight on a foot.
Here is my 25 year old nephew and his favorite hog, BP (Big Pig) giving him a belly rub. Picture was early this spring. BP went to a farm in the northern part of the state to be a herd sire, way too docile a boar to use for a food animal. He flopped over and wanted a rubdown, sometimes on your feet, lol. The new owner is just amazed over how gentle and friendly he is.

What a sweet story, your animals treat you as they are treated. Love it.

 

[Miss Lydia]

King Ethel in front, Wolfie on the second step, King Ethel thinks I belong to him






King Ethel





Wolfie, he? or she is an oddball but love this goose

They are beautiful

Welcome to BYC!!

 

[Stormy Cashmere]

Happy hens,happy me

 

[Miss Lydia]

Happy hens,happy me

Looks like a Rooster to me.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Happy hens,happy me

Is that a Mr Leghorn I see? Friendly fella!

 

[Stormy Cashmere]

That's a hen

I only have hens and a male goose.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

That's a hen

I only have hens and a male goose.

WOW, thats a hen in the picture? Goodness I would not have guessed. Looks exactly like my white leghorn roo. I noticed after looking there are no spurs.