Meanderings
Posted: Monday, 14 April 2008 |
5 comments |
Now that spring/summer/those few brief days it isn`t sleeting sideways, is here, I can do more work outside. It`s hard though really, because I`m having to juggle `real` work...tanning and processing the hides..and the much needed work outdoors to mend fences and repair damage done by the winter storms, and get the garden dug over, planted and sown, so that come autumn, I`ll have some food, and meat, and not a wild and unkempt garden..well...ok..so it always does look kinda unkempt but still, am striving to lessen that a little....*blushes*
I have two nesting geese..they both sit on the one nest, can you imagine, folks, what that would be like with humans? Two women in the same household...both thinking they are boss? Doesn`t bear thinking about, huh?
anyways...they both sit the nest, but the flock of geese have eaten the grass around the front down to the soil and to give it time to recover I thought, move the four geese not nesting round the back to the peedie field, which has stone dykes on three sides with a gate in one of them, and chicken wired fencing on the fourth, leading out to a farmers field.
So the night before last, caught the geese, shoved them round the back with food and water, all hunkydory.
Next morning, there they were, round the front again....
So, catch the wee bu*gers, clip their wings, put them back again last night...
this morning, there they are again, round the front.
Now, I checked the fencing..it`s ok...
Checked they couldn`t fly with clipped wings..they can`t..
checked the gate in case there`s a hole in it maybe they can wriggle under...none...
so...ARGH! I`m going crazy trying to figure out how they`re doing it!
So will catch them...again!...today, put them back, triple check there are no holes they can escape from and if they do it again I might just need to instal CCTV cams to spy on em.
(that was a joke btw)
Aside from the geese, I got a pile of hides to work today, and rain is forecast...and need more garden work done, and, oh, just a pile of other things that the day doesn`t really expand to fit, what eejit said that time expands to fit the work available? Well, they LIED! Dirty big fibbers....growl.....
And what ah`m ah daein`? Sittin` on me behookey writin` a blog...hee.....
Have a bonny day folks...
Posted on Hermit Life at 10:03
Comments
HL I have the same problem with my muscovy ducks ... wings clipped ... fences secure ... ducks still get out ...! The only thing I could possibly think of was that there are a lot of high places within the enclosure - rocks ... a picnic table ... and with clipped wings, they can still flutter ... so if they stand in the right high place, they can flutter over ...! I'm sure that's what mine are doing, because they always manage to get out, and never manage to get in again ...! worth considering ...
soaplady from regarding the waterfowl
How about little ankle weights? ;-)
CVBruce from CA, USA
reminds me of our Alex when he was knee high to a Muscovy duck .. we couldn't figure how he could get out of his cot. We had to spy through the keyhole to find out.... he slipped between the sides and the bottom, must have had rubber bones at that time. Check geese bones for rubber. Actually HL, we all know why you don't have enough time to do all the chores ... you're doing all that dancing stuff, or phying yourself in deliciously tittivating costumes.... don't try to fool IBloggers! We see through you, if not through your veils .. so far.
Barney from Swithiod in a time machine
Hermit if you have the money buy yourself a rotovator 5HP(Rear tyne) a bloke called Howard invented it, it will take the loading of your back and probably haul you around the paddock.You could hire youself out with the machine at a resonable rate/hour.Its not just for digging but for weed controle, again it saves the back. Have a good day. Regards
roy from Sofala.Oz
Ghosts of geese long repasted: they are not real geese, Hermit, just visions.
mjc from NM,USA
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