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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Thursday, April 15, 2004 - 2:46 pm
I'm confused, am I supposed to talk about my duckling/kidlets in here, or in the bird thread? Because there's all kinds of goose pornography going on on my lake, and those gander hussies seem only too happy to oblige their web-foot Johnny Wad's right in front of my dock. This must be discussed! Those flocking floozies are setting a bad example for my proper little mallard hens, who should be sitting on their nests but want to see what all the ruckus is about. Wait til Colossus finds out - we'll have a gaggle of sado-masochistic Branta Canadensis parked on our lawn who forever associate sex with bottlerockets shot up their watertight hineys. Someone make them STOP!!!
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Theowl
Member
09-28-2000
| Thursday, April 15, 2004 - 9:29 pm
GAL, this is as good a place as any to discuss goose porno!! Pictures!! We want PICTURES!!!!! HOOO HOOOO!!!! 
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Froggiegirl621
Member
02-14-2003
| Friday, April 16, 2004 - 8:17 am
I second Owl's request for pictures, lol! I love hearing the goose stories, even if it is about the porn going on! Keep them coming GAL.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Tuesday, April 27, 2004 - 8:58 am
WE HAVE DUCKLINGS!!!!!!!! Life is good!!! I was starting to get depressed because none of my babies or hens from last year had brought around this year's batch of babies - I knew there were a few hatched because Colossus saw some down the road. Well, today I had no hope of seeing any because the weather is just treacherous. And whaddaya know, I hear this commotion outside by the deck, I go have a look and there are seven tiny little striped-eyed ducklings running around in circles at the bottom of the stairs while their mom is busy running off all the other mallards and geese. I didn't get a good enough look at mom mallard to see who she is, she was pretty busy trying to make sure her babies got fed, but my goodness I'd almost forgotten how adorable the little ones really are. These couldn't have been more than a week old or so - but they were very adventurous, happy to get their first taste of cracked corn and even performed my favorite duckling trick of running on the water to catch up with mom when she decided it was time to go home. YYYAAAYYY!!!
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Tuesday, April 27, 2004 - 9:10 am
Ohhhh, what great news GAL!! Will you be able to take any pictures to post here?? I love Springtime and what mother nature brings forth for us to enjoy.....like GALS newbie baby ducklings...yay!!
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Tuesday, April 27, 2004 - 9:20 am
Sure, we'll take tons of pictures this year, Eggie. Colossus just got a series of pictures of our ever-skittish blue heron fishing and flying around our dock. If those turn out well, I'll post a few of them too. He is a spectacular-looking bird. Woo-hoo I'm pumped!!!
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Tuesday, April 27, 2004 - 9:27 am
Oh GAL, you've brought back a great memory for me regarding a blue heron!! Egbob and I were with a group of river rafters up in Montana/Idaho and I got up early one morning as the sun was rising to take in the quiet of the morning. As I walked along the river, I suddenly came upon a gorgeous great blue heron as he was fishing! Talk about magnificent!! He was startled by me and took off in flight...I'll never forget the wingspan and the beauty of that huge bird!!
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Tuesday, April 27, 2004 - 9:28 am
Friday I had the immense treat of watching a mama wood duck on the pond with her 7 babies. Too cute for words!
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Tuesday, April 27, 2004 - 9:33 am
OPG, what does a wood duck look like? I'm not familiar.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Tuesday, April 27, 2004 - 1:35 pm
Here you go. Woodducks are so beautiful, especially the male.

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Froggiegirl621
Member
02-14-2003
| Tuesday, April 27, 2004 - 1:50 pm
Yay GAL!!! Can't wait for pictures!!!
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Grannyg
Member
05-28-2002
| Tuesday, April 27, 2004 - 2:03 pm
Yay!!!!!!! for ducklings!!!!!!!! Hurry up and get those pics. You know, Gal, patience is not our strong suit.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Tuesday, April 27, 2004 - 2:06 pm
Wow, those ARE beautiful, OPG!!!
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Tuesday, April 27, 2004 - 3:41 pm
The Woodducks are gorgeous! I love the coloring of their feathers....both the male and female. Thanks OPG for sharing!!
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 12:54 pm
OK, this time it was Hortense the best mallard mother in the world, and she brought her NINE little sweeties to see me!!! Hers were even tinier than the seven from yesterday. I got about 4 shots off with a disposable camera, but I'll sick Colossus on them with his 35mm as soon as he gets a chance. Hortense is distinguished not just by her good looks, but also her fierceness with the other ducks who might think they're going to snatch a snack while her little ones are still feeding. Make no mistake, there are Hortense scars on many an otherwise beautifully feathered drake around here. Our lawn was covered with feathers from her hapless victims last year. She's the only one they no longer mess with. At the same time, she waits until the little ones are pretty much done eating their cracked corn and then comes and eats her shelled corn out of my hand. She's a good mom, we love her.
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Theowl
Member
09-28-2000
| Tuesday, May 04, 2004 - 10:57 pm
For everyone who has asked for a "kid" update, and even those that didn't, here it goes... We now have 5 kids. Mountain Dew was "banded" last week, so he's been alittle slow moving, but drinking and eating good. Since he was sick and I was nursing him back to health, he's been so attached to me. He is the calmest of all the kids, and SO cute!! Minute Maid is a runner! When I let them out of the pen to go back to their stall, she just tears up the lawn. She does the jumping and hopping and just so adorable!! Snowball is our little devil!! She has such a personality!! She's like the little bully of the bunch. Buster is a PIG!! He finishes his bottle and NEEDS more, so he jumps on the others heads and grabs the bottle. He just doesn't understand NO. Might have a problem with that kid!! LOL!! Baaaabs is the noisiest little thing!! She is so loud, she drowns out all the others together. When Tom and I feed, she is the last one to get her bottle, because she's the smallest and the new kid on the block. Morning feedings are a pain in the butt!! It's only me, so when I open the stall door, all 5 run out and I have to put 3 back in. Try doing that with them chewing on your shirt and pants and then running away and then have to catch 3 and put one in the stall and catch another and open the door and the first one runs out and...you get the picture. I have to make the 2 follow me to the pen and feed them inside it, then get out without them coming out with me. Then go to the stall for 2 more and go through the same thing...except I can't feed them in the pen. I feed them outside of the pen and have to lift them over the fence. They are really starting to get heavy!! Then the last one is easy (usually Baaaabs). Then I clean their stall and refill their grain and alfalfa (sp) and water. Sometimes they have had diarrhea so I crush up an antibiotic pill in their milk. All in all, they are such a joy!! I love watching them play with their balls and soap jugs and play "king on the mountain" on a half barrel. One strange thing though. They won't eat the grass Inside the pen, only around the outside. They eat it down to the dirt, so we have to move the pen every couple of days. They are just so much fun!! GAL, I'm still waiting for Goose Porno!! I love you duck stories, and waiting for the pictures to go with them.
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Strawberry
Member
07-18-2002
| Wednesday, May 05, 2004 - 4:26 am
Aww they sound adorable. I think we need a little "kid" cam. I would love to see Buster sitting on top of the other little kids heads trying to get some more breakfast...LOL Sounds like they give you your Jane Fonda morning workout MsOwl! 
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Wednesday, May 05, 2004 - 8:33 am
...banding, ouch! Poor baby boy!
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Cillysue2
Member
05-02-2003
| Tuesday, May 18, 2004 - 12:02 pm
Oh I must share a goose story with you. I had 4, to Toulouse and two white ones (pairs). I used to go out and quack at them to call them. I came home from work one day and I heard my geese honking away, but the sound was far away. So I went looking for them. I discovered that they had managed to get into the neighbors yard, and my female had gotten on the other side of the fence and now couldn't figure out how to get back. So she stood there on one side honking and the other 3 were on the other side looking at her honking. It was very comical and LOUD!!!!! Well, I called my dog Zippy and tried to crawl between the wires on a barbed wire fence, only to have the crotch of my pants get stuck on the barbed wire. Well being a "fluffy" person, I couldn't see where I was stuck, so I considered my options. Should I just take my pants off??? No I decided that wouldn't be the best solution, since I could be seen from the road. So I just ripped them off the wire (which left a very large breezy hole in the crotch area). Zippy and I continued on our mission. Now don't ask me why I was taking Zippy, all he ever managed to do was chase the geese and upset them - so what good was he going to be??? Well I got to where the female was and reached over the fence and pulled her over. Well the minute she landed Zippy was off and running giving her a good chase all over the place. He chased her around in front of the neighbor's yard and then as they came back around her mate was standing there waiting and as they passed her mate reached out and pinched Zippy right in the butt, but he didn't let go!!!!! So here is this white goose flying like mad to keep ahead of my dog Zippy who is running and yelping with a large male goose hooked to his butt!!!!!! The male goose finally let got, and caught up with his mate and I grabbed the crotch of my pants and we all headed home except for Zippy who was still sitting there licking his wounded butt! But did that stop Zippy from chasing geese? Heck no. He continues to give them a good run for their money.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Tuesday, May 18, 2004 - 1:44 pm
LOL!! You 'painted' a good pix of when transpired.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Wednesday, May 19, 2004 - 12:24 pm
Cillysue - that is one of the funniest stories I've heard in quite awhile!!! I wish I had Zippy chase off our Canadian geese - they are really making me nuts right now, snapping at Wargod's ducklings and making it impossible for them to get their share of corn. I'm about to turn Colossus loose on them again - they don't seem to care if you throw rocks at them, it must be their peculiar form of brain damage, but a good ol' bottle rocket up the kazoo is hard to forget.
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Theowl
Member
09-28-2000
| Thursday, May 20, 2004 - 7:53 pm
My heart is breaking, and I need to know if I'm doing the right thing. This will be a long post, and I may have to stop before I'm done, because my hubby might come home, and I don't want him to read this. I will continue after he goes to bed though. Monday night when we went out to feed the goad kids, everything was normal. We put the 5 week old baby, Baaaabs, out of the stall and fed the other four (all still bottle babies). Then when I fed Baaaabs, she was just sucking from the right side of her mouth. We checked her teeth and cheek and everything was OK. She did drink all of her milk just fine, just that she only used half of her mouth. In the morning, she didn't come out with the rest of the kids, so I put them in their pen and went back for her. She was acting drunk and kind of out of it. She was drooling some green stuff, too. She also wouldn't drink her milk. I put her in the pen with the rest and fixed her an antibiotic. When I squirted it in her mouth, it all came out, and she continued drooling, but she tried to eat some leaves from the branches we put in the pen. Gotta go. I'll be back in a bit. Sorry!! 
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Thursday, May 20, 2004 - 8:04 pm
Oh Owl, it is so hard when our babies are sick , we feel so helpless. (((Owl))
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Theowl
Member
09-28-2000
| Thursday, May 20, 2004 - 9:32 pm
I'm back, sorry for the delay. She then just laid down, and later had to be carried to the stall. Tom talked to the neighbor that we got her from, and gave us some penicillen for her. I called the vet that Jill has to check her goats, and Dr. Mitchell said to check her throat for an obstruction. Sure enough, it was packed with hay!! Tom got it all out and we fed her with a syringe. Yesterday she couldn't get up, and she was having problems swallowing. She was so weak. She couldn't hold her head up, but we fed her and her eyes were so glassy. The vet finally returned my call this morning, and from the symptoms, she said it was tetnus, and she was going to slowly die. I was so upset and didn't know what to do. I don't want her to die that way, so I called the closest vet to us and ask if he could put her to sleep. He said to bring her in and he'd see what he could do. I don't like this vet because he is very unfeeling and ignorant, in my opinion, but all I needed was help to put Baaaabs at peace. He told us that it wasn't tetnus, because he legs still would bend. If it was, you would not be able to bend or move her legs, but he said she has pnemonia. Really bad. He said that she will probably die, but if I want to try to save her, give her a shot of penicillen every day. It's her olny hope, and there's nothing more that can be done. I was so happy, and brought her home. She's not doing any better, but she's not doing worse. We just fed her, and her cry is alittle louder than a whimper, but at least she is making sounds now. Did I do the right thing? I'm just praying she can pull this off, but I don't know if she's strong enough to. Should I have just let her go? It's so hard!! I cradle her in my arms and give her nose rubbies (she LOVES nose rubbies) and tell her to come back to us. I know she hears me, because she whimpers to me. Does anyone have any advise for me? 
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Kristylovesbb
Member
09-14-2000
| Friday, May 21, 2004 - 6:15 am
Theowl, this just breaks my heart. I think you have done the right thing. I would never give up fighting to save her either. Miracles happen and I will be praying for one for your sweet baby.
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