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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Once they have selected a safe and easy to access nest we typically take a permanent marker and mark an egg to be left behind to encourage them to continue using that spot. That egg gets tossed after a week or so and replaced.

    We tried decoy eggs with chickens and found them to be ineffective and dangerous to snakes. But also stupidly expensive I made some decoy eggs out of cedar with the idea that chickens sense of smell is bad and snakes would avoid those. Three legged dog stole those. Maybe I will try making some goose sized cedar eggs.




  • They are friendly enough eight months of the year. Minimal hissing and no attempts to eat your legs the moment you turn around.

    But for four months out of the year they are aggressive dinos that you can’t turn your back on. If they aren’t on the nest they aren’t too bad. If they are on the nest you will need to carefully pick them up without getting bit or beaten with their wings. And relocate them before you try to get the eggs.

    We found a second nest today with five eggs in it. The goose was on it but wasn’t ready to fight me so she got up and wandered away on her own.

    Most of the year it takes about four minutes to put away all the ducks, chickens and geese at night. But for the next few months it will take somewhere between four minutes and 20. Because now there may be one or more geese hiding on a nest somewhere on the property and we have to go find them because they can’t stay out all night due to predators. Which is another reason to find the eggs. If a raccoon or possum finds an egg before we do they will start coming back and that’s a danger to everyone.