Pool time: First swim for ducklings There is a first time for everything, so it’s nice to have mummy duck show you how it is done. Needless to say, they take to water like….. ducks! This Indian Runner Duck, brooding and bringing up babies for the first time appears to …
At first it was incidental. They shit everywhere on anyone or anything at any time. Themselves, each other, their food, their water, their sleeping space. Yes, omnipresent. It was on my hands and my clothes and all over the place. When faced with the question concerning their bedding, I decided …
Getting in goosestep: walking the birds: I love going for walks with the geese. These are birds thought to have been companions for at least 7000 years. They are odd characters. Intelligent appearing at times, dumb as nobody’s business at others. Gracious and clumsy, quiet and calm, loud and messy. …
Yea, we have a savannah, sort of. At least that is what we call it. It is, more or less, a nano plateau, a “vast plain of grass”, covering about 4800 m2, at the highest point of our land and also home to our little hill, which we call “Himmelbakken“. …
It is June, it is summer, it is hot and: Goslings coming out! The birds come out for the first time, discovering the world of green on their own, the main source of their food for weeks inside. They get their first shower with the garden hose and we built …
The goslings now enjoy a space double the size of when they first joined us a week ago. A write-up concerning the feed is still on the to-do list, but here’s a couple of videos of a feeding frenzy. They are here fed by hand and more or less in …
I posted a permaculture gosling intro earlier, where I mentioned I would go into details about ‘permaculture gosling feed‘. I have many mental notes, yet to make it to screen. Meanwhile have a look at them munching away on this mix (grated apple, fermented super food from factory, mixed with …
We have got goslings. Or they got us?!? We are of course still observing and finding our way, but we also got to walk at the same time. So we found some geese and, therefore, might as well write up a little permaculture goslings intro. They were seven days old …
