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<blockquote data-quote="somn" data-source="post: 366358" data-attributes="member: 3721"><p>I know this is completely of the subject but here goes. When my brother and I were young we always would play down by the creek in the spring. Well one day we came across a canadian honker sitting alongside the water as we got closer we realized she was nesting. Well in our young stupidity we decided to take two eggs. We took them home and darn near got our hands ripped off trying to put the eggs under one of our banty hens protective little things are those banties. After some time we had 4 banty chicks and 2 canadian honkers. As they got older those darn geese would swim in our little plastic pool and poop like mad in it but that old hen would just pace back and forth by that pool just a clucking. We tried to do that again every year for the next 3 or 4 years but everytime the old hens would roll the eggs right out of the nest. That had to be one of my most interesting summers ever watching that old banty hen flip out everytime those geese got near water. Those dumb geese never left the farm either they would spend the winters in the cattle shed all snuggled up with the steers. It was always funny watching those geese try to roost in the trees under the yard light like the banties did at night. After about 12 tries they would just head to the cattle shed. Those geese would always chase vehicles that pulled up on the farm like the dogs did too. They must have led confused lives. For some reason they would always chew the little rubber mufflers off our toy tractors and they would completely destroy those styrofoam beer coolers and minnow buckets. They even knew about what time we got off the school bus or else they would just follow the dogs to the top of the hill on our driveway and wait. We really were not sure who was leading who but both dogs and both geese would be waiting at or before 4:10 pm. They made for some of the most interesting pets I ever had. Why they never left is beyond me all they would have needed to do was fly away.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="somn, post: 366358, member: 3721"] I know this is completely of the subject but here goes. When my brother and I were young we always would play down by the creek in the spring. Well one day we came across a canadian honker sitting alongside the water as we got closer we realized she was nesting. Well in our young stupidity we decided to take two eggs. We took them home and darn near got our hands ripped off trying to put the eggs under one of our banty hens protective little things are those banties. After some time we had 4 banty chicks and 2 canadian honkers. As they got older those darn geese would swim in our little plastic pool and poop like mad in it but that old hen would just pace back and forth by that pool just a clucking. We tried to do that again every year for the next 3 or 4 years but everytime the old hens would roll the eggs right out of the nest. That had to be one of my most interesting summers ever watching that old banty hen flip out everytime those geese got near water. Those dumb geese never left the farm either they would spend the winters in the cattle shed all snuggled up with the steers. It was always funny watching those geese try to roost in the trees under the yard light like the banties did at night. After about 12 tries they would just head to the cattle shed. Those geese would always chase vehicles that pulled up on the farm like the dogs did too. They must have led confused lives. For some reason they would always chew the little rubber mufflers off our toy tractors and they would completely destroy those styrofoam beer coolers and minnow buckets. They even knew about what time we got off the school bus or else they would just follow the dogs to the top of the hill on our driveway and wait. We really were not sure who was leading who but both dogs and both geese would be waiting at or before 4:10 pm. They made for some of the most interesting pets I ever had. Why they never left is beyond me all they would have needed to do was fly away. [/QUOTE]
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