Moving the building to its new location, closer to the house...
Adding the new floor...
Cutting the access door...
Framed in to protect from sharp metal edges... (the access ramp is temporary, we'll build a better one shortly!)
And Herdie and Gerdie have a new home!!!
The Geese have FINALLY moved in! I'm ridiculously excited! If you follow Woodside Gardens on facebook, you've seen me gushing about these critters all winter. Herdie and Gerdie are a 1 year old mated pair of Toulouse Geese. I fell in love with them as soon as I saw them, and I've been waiting for the snow to melt for MONTHS so that I could set up a proper shed and run for them. The geese are beautiful and very friendly (toward me, not everyone...), but the best part is this...
Breakfast!
It's mating season in the goose world, and although she won't lay all year long, Gerdie is giving me one of these every 2 days right now! Her eggs average 160 grams (she won't be fully mature until next spring at 2 years old) which is approximately the size of 3 chicken eggs! Scrambled goose eggs with a little sea salt and dill make the best breakfast ever! I have saved all her egg shells, by drilling a small hole at each end and blowing the egg out, and they will be used for some craft projects in the future.
I love this basket of egg shells sitting in my kitchen window!
Do you have geese or other poultry? Come on over to the facebook page and talk about it!