Goose egg

As a kind of payment for using our land, the neighbours bought around a breeding pair of geese for us. We put them in the pig sty and the seemed to be happy enough. I thought we would be waiting ages before getting any eggs but this morning Johanna came in to say we had an egg.

Not sure what we will do with it, perhaps wait for another one and then make scrambled eggs.

Quacks and Honks

Well, these are our ducks and geese.















They are all up against the cage to greet the camera which they hoped was a form of food. They do have a good deal of space and they are in a mobile cage so that we can move them up and down the garden for the greenery (ducks and geese love grass and weeds)















The geese are grey french geese. They get up to a good weight and they are much less aggressive than the english white geese. The ducks are all mixed. We have 3 geese and 9 ducks. Though, we felt the ducks were big enough now, so we have one alone in a pen, fattening up for the oven in a couple of weeks time. We can hardly wait.