No mass murder or die-off, just a communal dust-bath by the current crop of chicks. They're almost eight weeks old, and will be integrated with the main flock next week.
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Spouse writes: The eight geese and two dogs foul up the goose pond in about 4.5 days during the summer. The pond filter we have used for t... -
Pic: these ain't "love" bites. 2012/02/06 Update to article: the geese are using these nest boxes, hooray!! Soon it will...
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Of Mice and Various Snakes and new Duck Feed Station
As mentioned in the previous post, our region is experiencing a near-Biblical plague of mice. "It's due to all the moisture we had...
I recognize the death throws of the group dust bath... hilarious!
ReplyDelete@natalie, the first time I saw one of those communal lay-ins I freaked, thinking maybe their food had gone bad or something! :-)
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