Oh what a relief! We had a really lovely heavy rain early this morning and a nice sleep in until 7am because it was so cool. The last few weeks we have been getting up at 4am to start at 6am which is the coolest time of the morning. It’s been really exhausting and the heat has been relentless.
Anyway, our goosie with the broken leg is recovering. It is actually able to weight bear and managing to limp around goosie hospital. It’s getting a bit lonely so I am allowing 1 to 2 hour visits from fellow goslings (one at a time). It gets a bit over-crowded with all of them twittering , messing around with food and pooping. Over-night stays are not allowed…way too much carrying on…Munchkin and Gnome don’t take kindly to interrupted sleep!
Operation: Get broody turkey sitting on goose eggs unfortunately failed. The Duchess (aka Female turkey) was a champion and sat the thirty days (and more) but none of the eggs hatched. We’ve read that goose eggs need to be turned on a daily basis (by the goose or by human) but once the duchess was sitting, there was no budging her. We thought that it was just best to let her do her Mama thing and wait it out. So in conclusion, it doesn’t look like turkeys can set goose eggs because they are too heavy for them to be turned. Oh well, we tried!
The other baby goslings are doing normal baby gosling things like twittering, pecking at each other, eating grass and pooping. We take them for supervised walks at the pond area and sit with them while they do their goosie thing. The other day, Gnome’s mum phoned us and said,
“How are my grand-children?”
The grand-kids are doing very well:
Home schooling has started because we want to make them into proper little scholars…unfortunately they keep on falling asleep every-time we open the book…perhaps we should review the goosie curriculum?
