It is with some sadness that I have to tell you that last night we had a visit from the dreaded fox. We have had a pair of farmyard geese for about 5 years, they were the oldest residents on the smallholding we got them just after we moved here from a chap called Terry Jacks he was the one who sung a song called seasons in the sun, anyway he was off to live in spain and needed a good home for them so we took them in.They were very placid and soon became part of the family.
All the chickens are locked away every night but the geese spent the nights on an island in the middle of the pond so we never locked them up. This year they had 2 goslings and last night the fox had been, when I went to feed them this morning I could only see the female goose and one of the goslings, after looking all round the pond I found a trail of feathers and found what was left of the gander, the other gosling was nowhere to be seen.
It has been very sad and the goose spent all day calling for her mate. A lesson learnt here is never be off guard when keeping poultry & wildfowl the fox is an opportunist and will strike when you least expect it. We have shut the goose & gosling in the old pigpens tonight where they will be safe
2 comments:
So are you keeping your remaining female goose and gosling somewhere else now?
Hi
They are still on the same paddock, but we now lock them up each night to be safe.
The gosling has grown quickly and is doing very well
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