Disaster hit my duck coop this past week. Apparently some critter had gnawed a hole in the section that served as the laying area, which is just outside the coop but attached to it, and got into the main part of the coop. When I went outside to let the ducks out for the day, […]
geese
Posted inLivermore Falls Advertiser, Oxford Hills, The Franklin Journal
Update on Eileen's geese
All 14 of my lovely geese are doing well, including “daddy” of much of the flock, Seb, at age 18 or so. What’s different this year is the lack of goslings. I don’t know why, because my girls laid lots of eggs that I know were fertilized, and sat on them, too. I miss watching […]
advertisement
Posted inFranklin, sj-web
Guess who's coming to dinner
Two deer appeared Friday in the yard of Wilton resident Eileen Adams, attracted to the corn she feeds her geese. Minutes later, the deer leaped the fence and ate the corn. Adams said the geese obliged the interlopers by gathering in a cluster at the other end of the pen. She said she’s seen deer […]
Posted inBethel, Franklin, Oxford Hills, River Valley
Geese are built to withstand cold winter months
Sometimes I wish I had all that lovely down that my flock of geese has. I look outside the back window during this frigid, wintry weather and wonder how they stay healthy and well during such awful weather. But my geese, although domesticated for hundreds of years, have a historic memory taken from their wild […]
Posted inRiver Valley
Duckling gets an unpleasant surprise
A tiny peep floated into the air from under Millie. A closer look revealed a little brown, fluffy duckling — the first that has hatched from my Khaki Campbell ducks. Many goslings have hatched over the years, including this year’s Sunshine, Cloudy and Rainy. Since they were born a couple of weeks ago, they have […]
Posted inRiver Valley
Springtime means fun in the pool, fresh eggs
It’s spring — and my geese and ducks are so happy! I dug out all the kiddie pools, cleaned them up and then filled them with water. They could hardly wait until the hose had finished its job. It’s been almost six months since they’ve had a little pool to splash and play in, and […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Franklin, Lewiston-Auburn, Oxford Hills, River Valley
Finny discovers blackberries
Finny has found a new love — half-ripened blackberries! Who knew geese liked berries? I knew, from trying to feed my favorite feathered friends citrus and apple peelings and other fruity things, that they didn’t like anything sweet. That is, until Finny tried an almost-ripe blackberry. His big, orange beak carefully took the berry from […]
Posted inRiver Valley
New birds invade the pen as signs of spring emerge
The “dinosaurs” have invaded the goose pen. These wild turkeys help themselves to the cracked corn, bread crumbs and anything else I provide to my increasingly amorous flock. The turkeys — which I really like because they are just so different from any other bird, wild or domestic — seem to have found a home […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, River Valley
Finny and the flock, Pekins and Khaki Campbell ducks wish everyone a great Christmas
Trying to get my beautiful goose flock to pose — more or less — in front of a bright red bow proved impossible. Even with some fresh celery that they love, they would not get anywhere near where I had hung the bow. But as soon as I removed it — sure enough — they […]