Toulouse Geese Thread

[Miss Lydia]

Aww!

My girls are the last ones in every night.

They are the watchers of the flock, I wasn't able to herd Missy in because she would freak out so bad I was afraid she'd hurt herself, so I'd wait till she walked inside the house then walk in behind her and try but she would get so upset she just wouldn't go into the stall, I have to put the 2 geese in a stall we built because they are sharing this house with 2 teenage Muscovies and a bantam hen and her 2 chicks. [My gander can be a stinker towards a mama hen protecting her chicks], So I was very relieved when she went in on her own, since the other night when I caught her she opened her wing and bent my glasses so much I had to go have them fixed back normal. I was thinking I will have to wear safety glasses from now on. But hopefully this is a start on her going in on her own each night. Sammy my gander will tolerate the chickens but mama hens that feel the need to protect their chicks he doesn't like so can't have him loose with them. I am so thankful all my flock like to go into their houses in the evenings. Anyway they a such a joy. Just didn't realize how much my gander acts like a duck instead of a goose, But i think Missy will help him turn the corner soon.

I hope you can find a really nice gander for your girls.

 

[Iain Utah]

Lydia, love the update on Missy. Very happy to hear she figured out her night-time sleeping place. It sounds like she is adjusting beautifully!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Lydia, love the update on Missy. Very happy to hear she figured out her night-time sleeping place. It sounds like she is adjusting beautifully!

Thanks Iain, She is doing so good. 2 weeks tomorrow.

 

[1MrsMagoo]

I haven't even seen any jumbos here. They are all the round seedless ones. now I could drive 50miles one way to the big farmers market in the largest city to us but thats a little crazy. Guess it's grapes or nothing.

We have an older farmer and his grandson that park by the side of the road a few miles from my house with a trailer load of melons every summer. He had ones so big I could hardly lift them for $10, ones bigger than anything the grocery store had for 6-8, and the icebox and seedless ones for 4-5.
I grew some too but got tired of fighting the raccoons to keep any of them, so put buckets over the biggest ones and left the rest. The coons missed a few smaller ones here and there, so the birds got those. They love melon season!

 

[Miss Lydia]

We have an older farmer and his grandson that park by the side of the road a few miles from my house with a trailer load of melons every summer. He had ones so big I could hardly lift them for $10, ones bigger than anything the grocery store had for 6-8, and the icebox and seedless ones for 4-5.
I grew some too but got tired of fighting the raccoons to keep any of them, so put buckets over the biggest ones and left the rest. The coons missed a few smaller ones here and there, so the birds got those. They love melon season!

Hopefully I'll see prices go down here I really want to see if my geese will try them, my gander is so strange he won't hardly try anything new. took forever to get him to try a grape.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I think Sammy is finally beginning to like Missy the Toulouse goose. they have slept in the same stall for 2 nights now without a fence in between them and he has been hanging out with her more. So happy!!

 

[Miss Lydia]

I think Sammy is finally beginning to like Missy the Toulouse goose. they have slept in the same stall for 2 nights now without a fence in between them and he has been hanging out with her more. So happy!!

 

[Iain Utah]

 

[aoxa]

With all the places to hang out, the driveway? Silly geese!

They look like they are that much closer to being BFFS!

 

[Miss Lydia]

With all the places to hang out, the driveway?

Silly geese!
They look like they are that much closer to being BFFS!

They love the driveway because they can practice their runway takes offs.

only flat place around here besides where the houses sit.