goslings

One of the five goslings hatched by my son's preschool last week. We donated 6 eggs from our breeding couple and offered to take any results back. All six hatched but one did not make it, and another was having a hard time (pictured). I brought that one home right in the morning to blow dry, keep warm and feed sugar water and by the afternoon she was fine. That afternoon I brought the remaining four home and the five of them are having a good time hanging out in a plastic half drum (no leaking) in our sunroom.

Baby geese are much sturdier than chicks and our five year old is enjoying handling and petting them (for now, until they grow up and "bite his bum", hihi).

The mother goose Emily is brooding her own nest with seven eggs last time I could count, which should hatch sometime the end of next week... we'll see who'll have the better hatching rate, the goose or the preschoolers!

I feel like gardening...

But it is only mid April! I did finally make a brick path in my flower & herb garden, which will make navigating it in summer much easier! Before the self seeding flowers loved to seed into the wood mulch path (they actually seeded more on the path than on the dirt...) and I felt bad about weeding out flower so left them and before you knew it the whole thing was impassible. So, with the left over bricks from the green house project (a lot of these have holes in them, are hollow bricks) a new path is made. If only I had started at the beginning and not at the end... I miss about 16 inches to reach the gate :)