Friday, August 16, 2013
June 15th-ish Goslings and other poultry
A set of seven goslings hatched in the incubator and were reunited with their flock. This is the last lot of goslings for this year (phew!) and brings the total number of geese at the farm to 35. They will be invaluble for keeping the grass grazed (and fertilised) on the farm and also at Poundbury orchard when we move some of them, and plans are afoot to sell some of them for the Christmas market.
While we’re on the subject of poultry, we also have a bantam bringing up four runner ducklings – apparently, runner ducks make useless mothers, so it is better to foster eggs out. Runner ducks are great for keeping slugs and snails down (our veg is doing splendidly this year, due to a complete absence of our slimy friends) and are quite in demand, so we will be thinking about selling these ducks when they are bigger.
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