Showing posts with label geese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label geese. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Geese & Goslings


Can you tell which ones are the young ones? They are almost as big as their parents! Did you know that geese graze on grass, just like horses? They keep our lawn mowed, although this isn't the lawn, this is the horse pasture. The horses ignore them, for the most part. Occasionally they will get too close and receive bites from the angry adult geese. Why they don't kick them is beyond me, but they never do. Attitude is everything in the animal world and other animals will give you space, regardless of how much smaller you are, if you are meaner than they are themselves. It's very interesting!

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Look at what hatched!


Springtime is such an amazing time on the farm. We love to see all the babies. The geese are proving to be wonderful parents. They hatched out 8 goslings!

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Mother Goose


Even though she's not really their mother, and they are already as big as she is, our young geese follow her everywhere....

Sunday, May 25, 2008

The Gosling Whisperer


This my youngest son. We have started calling him 'The Gosling Whisperer' (after "The Horse Whisperer" book & movie) because the goslings flock to him! They talk to him and look to him for guidance. It's unbelievably cute!! He can talk to the adults as well. When Canada Geese fly overhead, he honks at them. He sounds so much like them that they will actually respond.