Goosie Goosie Gooise and Gander Gander Gander
We have nine geese, goosies and ganders combined, and now we have nine goslings as well making a total of eighteen.
They have no assigned job on the farm but make the rounds each day, checking on the other farm animals, inspecting and eating tender grasses.
Goose Stepping
The geese are not pets, a point they make most stridently. Our relationship is cordial but at a distance.
Outdoors: 75°F/55°F Sunny, 1/2″ Rain
Tiny Cottage: 70°F/66°F
Daily Spark: You have to be odd to be number one. -Dr. Seuss
Walter Jeffries Tinker, Tailor… A bit eclectic & a tad eccentric, polymath, quantum mechanic & Farmer. Also lucky at cards.
Do the geese sound alarm for anything out of the ordinary ?
They do but they are not the fabled guardians of myths. Rather they sound the alarm and then the dogs come in to eat the predator.
Do you ever harvest geese for your table? Geese turn grass into oil!
We haven’t ever. They do put on quite a nice layer of fat, judging by their body condition in the fall, based just on grazing. They are forage eaters as opposed to the chickens and ducks who eat a lot of frogs, snails, snakes, mice and insects. I’ve never seen the geese go for those things. Instead they walk along mowing the pastures.