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Mine were and are in a large space. They stripped quite a
few varieties of trees. Now all the trees wear chicken wire corsets.
My geese keep the grass mowed but they don't do much on broadleaved weeds.
They do lay eggs and hatch some out. we take those to the poultry butcher
in the fall. Brined, smoked and roasted they are much tastier than your
average Snapper, Lawnboy or Honda.
I have some marauding chickens working on the bugs. I have
no clue where those eggs are. I hope I do not find
them.
Naomi
in Idaho From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Dianne Stephany Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 7:57 PM To: North American Fruit Explorers Subject: Re: [NAFEX] guinea fowl IMHO, I'd go with
duck; geese are vegetarians.
Also I know of someone who had
young geese strip the bark off of a young apple tree.
They were in a small space and were probably looking for food, or
maybe bored.
Fred had a flock of geese that roamed his
orchard. They ate the windfalls. Nice geese for Thanksgiving dinner -
really juicy and sweet.
Dianne, Rochester NY, Zone
5b
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