Shows my age…Genesis. And like the great band who pioneered sound and modern rock music, today at our little French homestead we had our pioneering moment…goslings. A whole new adventure after the big chicken learning curve. We were expecting older geese. Tony sent me a message…”They are green!”. Yep tiny bundles and as I am not around, Tony gets to play Mother Goose.
I sent a stream of panicked emails about food pellets, water, grass and dandelions. Not to let the chickens into their area, to ensure the pond was covered as no swimming for quite a while and generally getting myself into an emotional new mother state.
Say hello to Barley, Bumble and Bonnie.
A French Homestead Life 
The goslings arent the only green things.. I am green with a little gosling envy.. soooo cute.
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I am in a panic. I know about bringing up kittens like the back of my hand…but these little ones… We had a hedgehog visit and all the chickens got in a state. So Tony has heggie in kitchen and going to move him to a new patch tomorrow. Apparently they can be quite vicious to chickens and goslings. Yes very cute. Hopefully grow into cute big geese too and not too much honking.
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Oh dear..sounds like an episode of the ‘durrells’ he will be missing you. Kind of fun though!
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Operation hedgehog went well. Tony found a lovely riverside spot about a mile away and less risk of tractors. He should be ok there. I feel a bit choked up about it as I liked my prickly friend.
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Ah at least hes safe or she?..i would love to see a hedgehog in my garden.
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I will put up a post on heggie for posterity.
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I have a lovely pic of me in my garden when I was about 10 sitting down next to a hedgehog with a saucer of milk. Now we are told that milk is not good for them but they liked it then! That was a sussex garden though and slighty larger than my garden now.
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I will miss my heggie. Hopefully the declining population wasn’t affected too much by our good intentioned parents giving milk.
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Oh bless them, they are gorgeous! I have a colleague who keeps chickens and geese, and the geese are her favourite (if a mother can have favourites!) They look like they are spirited little geese already!
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They sure are. They escaped today and Tony had to put more wire round. He said they are quite noisy already. Lots to say for themselves. I have always wanted geese with attitude.
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