So imagine my surprise when I see and pen being dragged into the yard. Well, it was called a 'run'. And this run was about to be home to our own new pets...chickens and a goose.
Well, we got them settled and situated where they needed to be and very soon I learnt something about geese. I say learned something, but I already knew, geese are mean. Now, I knew this through just one of those facts you pick up, I'd never experienced this first hand.
Our goose (named goosey) was very good at protecting the chickens, a bit too good, as it has to be herded away from where the chickens laid there eggs so you could go in and get them otherwise it would honk, flap it's wings and try to nip you.
How bad could a goose nip really be it's a break after all? We get this a goose's main food is grass and plants. To eat these they have to cut the plant matter up. They have no teeth... What they do have is a serrated beak and that is very sharp and very good at ripping skin as well...for a short time I had quite a few cuts from that bird.
And when it nearly got the wife, well I was informed I had to build a chicken coop with separations so we could get the eggs safely.
Guess what I have no skills in, yep, you guessed it, carpentry.
Time to find wood and nails and a hope and prayer that I could build something that would stay together and not collapse on the new peta in the night.
