The geese escaped

Our geese like to roam around the farm eating bugs and that's ok. However, wherever they go, they leave deposits that are NOT fun to step into. So late last Fall, we locked them up and all winter they have been content to eat their oats off of the snow. All winter it has been so peaceful not to have to deal with hissing geese all over the place. Well, they escaped late last night.

We have been feeding them in a small pen close to the calves and had put a gate just at the right height so that they could get in and out, but the calves couldn't. Well about 3 weeks ago, the stock cows caught a whiff of the grain and broke into that small pen and started eating the geese's grain. So Jacob outsmarted them and now feeds the geese in the calf pen as we moved the calves out of there for better quarters. Well, now the geese found the breach in the fence that the cows had made and they are OUT.

For now they are content to be down in the pond formed by all of the Spring runoff, but soon they will be wandering all OVER THE FARM. GRRRRRRRRRRRRR. Anyway, here are some pictures of them joyfully making their way across the pasture to the pond and then enjoying a swim after a long winter of being cooped up away from the water that they love. I must admit, they're kind of pretty. We have about 20 of them but these are the leaders in the jail break. I'll try to get a picture when the pond is full of them later, but no promises.

Tiptoeing on her way to the pond she thinks, "I got out, I got out."

"It is soooooo nice to have some water around here

after all of that snow."

"I wonder what's under here?"

Don't you just love watching animals? I hope that you are enjoying Spring just as much as I am

--now that it has finally arrived. :)

Dawn