Starting from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.
Eight of our new Geese.
The other four.
From the left. Chicken Egg, Turkey Egg and our first Goose Egg.
Well what a surprise, I have won this egg in a raffle at our local garden centre, I had already bought Easter eggs for everyone. Wish I could share it with you all !! We will still be eating it at Christmas! Rose W’canton.
Bird of Paradise in our Hotel Garden. Penny Chicago Chicago Chicago.
As you can see by tonight photographs, we collected our Geese last evening. The eight are a little moth eaten and will do and look better when they are are allowed out on the grass to graze. They are about a year old. To our surprise when we went to feed them this morning one had layed an egg. We don’t know how long that they have been laying, or if the Geese have been mating, but we will try to incubate the egg.
The Four Geese were hatched in the November and December last year. Very late for Geese eggs to hatch. We don’t know how they will be if we mix to two lots of Geese. There may be one almighty fight causing some of them to get killed or injured, so we will keep them apart.
There are too many Geese for us to keep on the Farm. A trio will be about right, so we will sell the remaining nine. I must admit hearing Geese honking is a nice sound to have on the Farm.
We changed our incubator today. The original incubator would incubate 190 Chicken eggs. To be honest I thought that on that working out, it would incubate about a 100 Goose eggs. On reading the instruction book it will only incubate just over 50 Goose eggs. Being we hope to hatch every week, we changed the incubator for one double the size. As you can see on the photograph, Geese eggs are a lot bigger. The one in the photograph is the one we found our Geese had laid this morning is not a very big one.
I emailed Rose, W’canton telling her to send her Giant Easter egg to us. We would well tuck into it, and it must be some thing to do with when Thornton was born, as he has managed to find some chocolates from time to time. The last one being just over a week ago when he was found in one of the Cottages, with a box of posh chocolates that had been part of an anniversary present. Thornton had reached up on his rear legs and pulled the chocolates down from a cabinet, and was found stuffing himself. Thornton does like his chocolate.