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Garden of Ethan -
Saturday August 01, 2009 - By Ethan
I am now milking two does, twice a day. I was present for both deliveries, and these little kids are a blast. We often play, "Hop on Pop" on the lawn, where I kneel down and they jump on my back. When they were just days old, I...
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Foxhollow Poultry Farm -
Monday June 22, 2009 - By Tai
Our houses, fields, brooders, and hoop houses are full of poultry right now. Almost all of the poultry to be raised this year is on the farm at this moment except for another 200 or so turkeys, some more muscovy ducks, and a couple hundred quail. Bird chores...
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Hurricane Farm -
Monday April 20, 2009 - By Chris
At last! Click, click, click. Tap, tap, tap. Peep, peep, peep!
Hey, what's that sound in there?
Hey look! That one is trying to escape! Quick, catch it!
Here is our nice, clean, and...
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Re Rustica -
Tuesday March 24, 2009 - By fullofbeans
Some like to lead, others like to follow, everyone looks about and shares what they see! What a great trip...
Click here to hear the geese explore!
The geese explore to find new delicious things to eat, interesting animals to hiss and...
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Re Rustica -
Saturday March 14, 2009 - By fullofbeans
Dinosaur or goose? You decide.
Goose eggs are back! One of our younger visitors to the farm, upon seeing them, pronounced them to be “dinosaur eggs!”
We were pretty sure they were not dinosaur eggs, but goose eggs. We showed him our geese, and...
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Re Rustica -
Tuesday March 10, 2009 - By fullofbeans
Our head goose (with the biggest hat) does guard duty most often.
Our geese are so careful! When eating or sleeping, they will take turns watching each other. One at a time, they’ll stop eating or sleeping and stand guard. This watch goose is all...
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Garden of Ethan -
Sunday March 01, 2009 - By Ethan
My sister and niece helped me pick up our two Saanen dairy goats from the breeders, and we are looking forward to their babies in May and July. Ten chicks hatched from our incubator a week ago, and I am adding goose, duck and a variety of chicken eggs...
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Re Rustica -
Thursday February 26, 2009 - By fullofbeans
Our geese will knock their beaks against our ford, tapping off a rythm that is actually quite groovy. They also like to bite on the tailpipe and the fenders to make a grinding sound. Harmonizing like this occupies our geese for quite some...
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Re Rustica -
Thursday February 26, 2009 - By fullofbeans
Quick! Catch her! Our Head Goose almost makes her getaway with the collards!
What do the geese like almost as much as our specially mixed bird feed? Collards.
The geese love the flavor so much that, while they normally share...
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Triton's Farm -
Monday February 16, 2009 - By Triton
My American Buff Geese and Chinese geese are almost a year old now and really beginning to terrorize the farm. I think they will have to be confined to one of the cow pastures. No more free ranging for them. I think it's getting to be breeding season and since...
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Re Rustica -
Wednesday February 04, 2009 - By fullofbeans
People like to ask, are the geese with bigger hats more important in the flock than those with little or no hats? The answer is yes.
The Tufted Roman Geese we have sometimes have tufts, or "hats." Those with tall hats are higher in...
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Re Rustica -
Wednesday February 04, 2009 - By fullofbeans
Chickens have a strong sense of home, and gain that sense of home by sleeping in the same place for a week or so. Whenever we move our chickens to a new home (though we do try to avoid doing that), we keep them inside for a week or so to force them to...
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Not Your Ordinary Farm -
Wednesday November 19, 2008 - By Judy
Early Saturday morning, the geese set up the alarm call. This gaggle of American buff geese are extremely gentle and quiet. Even with visitors in and out of the farmyard, they keep their peace. I knew this call was serious business. ...
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