Pro - Does anyone else's nest boxes get soaked in rain?

[BeckyBoo]

......because I cannot actually quite believe my eyes. Ok, so the goose weigh in - this is getting REALLY ridiculous. Hatched 17th May at 4oz each. Weighed 30th May - 1lb 4oz. Weighed today (that's 6 days later folks)........2lb 6oz. So a gain of 1lb 2oz each in 6 days - OMG, how big are they going to be??!!

 

Seeing as how they have a "Mum" albeit she's an Indian Game Bird chicken (and they're nearly as big as her!!) I have to say they are now really getting friendly. All stomach led obviously - they will run up the garden for a spinach leaf although they've yet to learn how to differentiate between fingers and green leaves :rolleyes:

 

We are LOVING our goslings, Glorias foot (she was born with it curled over and walked on her ankle) is completely fixed and the only way to tell them apart is by staring at their toes!! (Like they stay still long enough!!) I'm marginally concerned about the amount they poo - they seem to have an infinite capacity to take a poo EVERYWHERE they go, even more than chickens but still really hoping we can manage to keep them in our back garden. It was hot here yesterday so we had our kids pool up - they had a great time in that! Although only one of them dives, the other just likes to bob about up top.

 

BeckyBoo

[Olly]

Awww ... I'd love geese. Any pictures?

[Snowy]

They sound gorgeous - yes, pictures please!

[BeckyBoo]

Well you did ask.....

 

Here we are with our Mum

 

 

 

Here's us getting bigger!

 

 

 

 

We were given them - goose eggs of fate!

 

They poo even more than chickens but we love them

 

BeckyBoo

[Chucky Mama]

Lovely What is their relationship with the hen that hatched them like?

[chickencam]

Lovely photos , and I thought that me children grew fast

[BeckyBoo]

They're already far more independent than chicken chicks are at this age - they come out of the shed in the morning - Mum first, then they barge past and off they go to eat grass. They don't mind leaving her to go for a swim either which is new this week. They're more friendly to us this week but they do still love their Mum. She seems totally nonplussed by the idea that her babies will soon be bigger than her and they're only three weeks old! Her sister is currently hatching four eggs for us - hens this time...

 

 

due in a little under three weeks time...

 

BeckyBoo

[Chucky Mama]

Lovely. Pretty eggs