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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: jameslindsay on June 14, 2010, 06:02:29 pm

Title: Visitor
Post by: jameslindsay on June 14, 2010, 06:02:29 pm: All day today we have had a lone goose take up residence on our land and the strange thing is my 5 are getting on well with it. Usually if any animal that doesn't belong to me enters my land they go mental and chase it away. The first pic is the 5 of mine with the visitor. Number 2 is the new addition, No 3 - my goslings now 8 weeks old and look at the size of them. No4 is the parents of my goslings, I think they are Chinese geese and the visitor looks very similair to them, any ideas?
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Post by: Newby on June 14, 2010, 06:07:33 pm: The visitor is a Greylag ;)
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Post by: jameslindsay on June 14, 2010, 06:13:16 pm: Thank you
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Post by: northfifeduckling on June 15, 2010, 07:40:31 am: The visitor looks like one of the migrating wild ones we get in spring and autumn. > thanks, Newby for giving us the name, I never knew what they are called< ;D Maybe it was injured in spring and left behind...I admire them each time they are around, absolutely beautiful! :&>
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Post by: JulieS on June 15, 2010, 09:04:02 am: Lovely pictures James :)
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Post by: jameslindsay on June 15, 2010, 10:01:21 pm: Well the Greylag is still with us. As soon as I let my 5 out this morning my Roman Goose went straight on the river to join it and they have been together all day!! Now my lot are locked up he/she goes off on to the river and I guess will wait for its new pals in the morning. I still can't get my head around why it has not been terrorised off our land.
Title: Re: Visitor
Post by: doganjo on June 16, 2010, 12:58:32 am: Is it male or female? Perhaps that makes a difference?
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Post by: jameslindsay on June 16, 2010, 07:05:07 am: I really don't know Annie, judging by size alone I would guess female though.
Title: Re: Visitor
Post by: doganjo on June 16, 2010, 09:43:25 am: That's probably why she's been accepted so readily. A male would have been seen as a threat by both your males and females.