11-09-2012, 02:31 PM
ESAD - Canada Geese. Disgusting creatures... lovely to look at, but they make an enormous mess. An adult goose will shit 5-8 lbs a day. On the pond there I have two kinds... we have resident geese, that live there from March - October, and return every year to the same place to have goslings. Those gosling imprint on the pond, and return with their parents each year. And so on, and so on. This season I think there were about 40 resident geese... about 30 of them will make it back, and by the end of next season they'll be close to 50. Fuckers.
Then I have the migratory ones that begin to arrive in October, and they come by the hundreds most days until about early November. I can handle these guys, because they mostly stay in the water and fly off daily.
I'm trying an electric fence now to keep them at bay. We'll see how it goes. I'm hopeful they'll stay in the pastures across the pond once they get shocked a few times.
HotD, here's another shot for you... and I'll try to dig out a non-snow covered one.
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Then I have the migratory ones that begin to arrive in October, and they come by the hundreds most days until about early November. I can handle these guys, because they mostly stay in the water and fly off daily.
I'm trying an electric fence now to keep them at bay. We'll see how it goes. I'm hopeful they'll stay in the pastures across the pond once they get shocked a few times.
HotD, here's another shot for you... and I'll try to dig out a non-snow covered one.