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[CapricornFarm]

I love ducks and didn't deal with any mess because they free ranged.
I'd love to get geese, DW doesn't cause they had mean one's when she was a kid. Not all geese are aggressive, some breeds are quite calm.
They're probably a lot like many breeds of chicken, get them from a source that culls bad attitude. Hatchery geese are probably more aggressive.

I understand Sebastipoles are even tempered as well as beautiful and expensive.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I like my ducks - I got them originally because I had a giant slug infestation (you don't have a slug infestation, you have a duck deficiency). I learned their poop water was amazing on my garden, that they're so very happy and fun to watch, and they eat all the lettuce in the fridge when it starts to go bad because we have good intentions of eating salads but end up not.

They are, however, disgusting.

In the winter they splash the water everywhere and it freezes. There's usually an ice block about 8 inches thick in their area because of it. I doubt that happens in normal places, but up here in The Great White North, it is quite a thing to behold. And slip on.


The "baby" geese I got were off craigslist, I drove over an hour to pick them up to find out they weren't baby geese, more like juveniles that had been raised by a broody. Figuring I could change their behavior, I got them anyway. I was dumb. They ran away from home shortly thereafter, the feeling was mutual. And I'm telling you if they didn't have webbed toes they would have given me the finger on the way down the driveway as they ran off.

We had one goose when I was growing up. Sis is 4 years older and not as smart as me. She'd chase the goose with the broom. Well, one day she was in the backyard and the goose came around and my sister was broomless. That goose took one look at her and started chasing. My sister got as far as the fence around the horses and tried to climb up it to get away from the goose. She was too slow. We had to perform a goose-ectomy on her butt. That goose was clamped on there. My dad's friend then came to get the goose and said it was delicious.

 

[Beer can]

I understand Sebastipoles are even tempered as well as beautiful and expensive.

Pilgrim geese are calm also, so are Cotton patch geese. I'd love to get the Cotton patch but they're rare and expensive. Cotton patch evade predators well cause they can easily fly without a running start, domestic geese usually don't fly very good.

 

[getaclue]

I confess, I got behind, and skipped a few pages of this thread. Between getting sick, and having to get everything ready for Irma, I just didn't have enough time to go around. We've got everything as secure as we can. Stocked all the supplies we can. Gotten as prepared as we can, and have no more money, to prove it. Barring any of those once-in-a-lifetime, weird, freaky things that should not happen, we are in pretty good shape.

They called Dh to go into work early yesterday (he's a deputy), and told him he wouldn't be home until the storm had passed, and events were under control. That's typical with his job, so my oldest daughter, her kids, and I were prepared to face the storm on our own. There were a few jobs he didn't get finished, since he had to go in early, so we got them done. There were also a few things that had to wait until closer to event time.

Yes, the chickens are all tucked in safely, in nice sized cages, in my garage. At the end of a long hard day, we all went to bed. All of a sudden, all heck broke loose. My wonderful sleep was interrupted by what sounded like my garage door going up, and all my chickens screaming. Still not fully awake, I couldn't decide if someone had broken into my truck, and was using the garage opener in it, or whether Dh had come home unexpectedly. I decided Dh had come home unexpectedly, which saved us quite a bit, considering the cost of funerals nowadays. I headed out to the garage to calm the chickens, and find out what's up.

Apparently they broke everyone up into 2 teams. Team 1 was Entry/Exit, and they did everything prior to the storm, now Team 2 takes over for a certain number of hours during the storm, while Team 1 rests. Team 1 will take over again for the aftermath, while Team 2 rests. He has to face the storm with us. I hope he stays positive, and focused.

 

[chickisoup]

Where is Frozen Tozen Land? Never seen it on a map!

Hehehehe That's what we refer to up here as anyplace north of Greenbay (a reference to condition of toes 9 months out of the year- frozen tozen - toes)

 

[pennyJo1960]

Morning all been reading up and everyone confirms I stay with just chickens...
@getaclue please stay safe or anyone down in the land of storms

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Hehehehe That's what we refer to up here as anyplace north of Greenbay (a reference to condition of toes 9 months out of the year- frozen tozen - toes)

OOOH how far are you from Green Bay? I am a major Packers fan. I need to get up there to Lambeau and see a game.

 

[Latestarter]

I understand Lambeau field is sold out inperpetuity. Waiting list for season tickets is a lifetime and 1/2. Existing season tickets are bequeathed to waiting heirs/heiresses. Perhaps you should try to buy a ticket (or pair) first, THEN make vaca and travel arrangements to go see that game? Maybe you could get DD to accompany you and you could make it an awesome trip. You're both more or less used to cold weather so shouldn't be a factor for either of you.

Alternately, you could send a personal request to a team member and hope they'll help you out. You never know...

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I just want to see one game, not season tickets. That's a heck of a commute.

Dsqard doesn't like football. I don't have any issue going by myself, except I will probably not be able to find my car in the parking lot afterwards.

That already happened to me once... Dallas vs Packers at Dallas back in the playoffs eons ago (Packers lost). We had a rental car. I had no idea what color it was, or even what kind.

The parking lot had to empty and then we had to walk around with the fob.

No joke.


I went out today with bf and went to the store north of me to get the shavings that the biddies (ie the guineas) are used to. They don't like the small, poofy kind (more like sawdust) that the store on the way home from work has. We go in to the hardware store, tell them how many bags, then pull around to the back. The bags we are used to are black with gold writing. The employee began to throw white bags with black writing in the back of the truck. Oh, crap, they changed brands.
Yup, the birds noticed.
The horrible, untrustworthy, dangerous shavings must not touch their feet.
Bedtime was a disaster.

 

[chickisoup]

OOOH how far are you from Green Bay? I am a major Packers fan. I need to get up there to Lambeau and see a game.

We are roughly a little over 2 hours northwest of Lambeau. We've been to a couple games due to a very intelligent stepdaughter who had the good sense to marry a very nice young man many years ago that just happened to be in line to inherit his dad's season ticket rights. They have given game tickets to us FREE (those tickets are NOT cheap) when they couldn't use them and in fact we were offered the last preseason game but it was at night and just too late for us fogies to then drive home. They are always a sellout (not all seats are season ticks) and they recently expanded the seating and added more skyboxes, but there is usually somebody selling their tickets for a specific game because they can't go, etc. It's rare to find a scalper with Packer tickets tho because they are so hard on anyone caught. The easiest ones to get hold of are home games in December. (remember, Lambeau is not enclosed and no such fancy thing as benches, it's all concrete). Or if there's a big snowstorm coming. People are quick to part with their tickets at cost if there's a blizzard due to come across the big lake.