About a week ago we found  one of our goslings, 3 days old at the time, sitting immobile and unable to stand.  It was twittering away to itself and appeared unperturbed.  On closer examination, it appeared to have broken its right leg.  We are not sure what happened because he was fine before; maybe a guinea pig had accidentally trod on its leg or a clumsy gosling had sat on him…who knows?

Since it was unable to move, it was not eating or drinking.

Gnome, accident and emergency specialist said that it would probably take 4 to 6 weeks for the leg to completely heal.  He further explained that this would mean that we had to open up a 24 hour hospital care unit for the little one.  In other words, this meant one to one care, attention and feeding.  He asked me:

“I know that we are both very busy right now.  Munchkin, do you want to look after the goosie?”

I thought about it carefully because there are plenty of things to do on the farm and many other things that we do including seeing patients and making products.   Do I really want to use up my time looking after one goosie when there are many healthy goosies to give the time and attention to?

Oh well, this one was too cute for me to say “No.”

As Gnome says,

“Cuteness goes a long way…”

Goosie Hospital is officially open; run by Matron Munchkin!!