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!