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Geese and ducks follow the first thing they see as they're hatching - they're being 'imprinted' and believe you're their mother! I don't think they know much about their fathers, as is getting to be ever more common anyway, LOL...Get a few geese to hatch in your presence and you'll have some companions for life...
posted by
Nautikos
on October 4, 2017 at 7:45 PM
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Old farmers usually become sentimental and tolerate foxes.
posted by
C_C_T
on October 4, 2017 at 9:58 AM
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yes I expect so and one gets used to birth and death on a farm.
posted by
Kabu
on October 3, 2017 at 1:20 PM
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Re: adnohr
Yes adnohr always remember to catch hold of the neck but don't let its wings smack against the legs. Chewed any rhubarb lately?
posted by
C_C_T
on October 3, 2017 at 10:46 AM
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Of course and lets face it RP, if we were all born with long big ears one would have to how to wiggle them to become attractive.
posted by
C_C_T
on October 3, 2017 at 10:43 AM
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Yes they get kind of set on an object or person if a mother goose is not at hand.
posted by
C_C_T
on October 3, 2017 at 10:40 AM
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I think kids do not realize Kabu, and of course brought up in a farming community it was just a normal exciting experience that would make you shrink with horror today.
posted by
C_C_T
on October 3, 2017 at 10:39 AM
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Re: Pat
Yes Pat and it had a cruel religious reason behind it as did most nursery rhymes.
Someone had a subtle sense of humour, that's how we spell it.
posted by
C_C_T
on October 3, 2017 at 10:36 AM
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Oh yes - geese can be wicked! Had had the experience. Is it only as we age that we realize how we keep trying to stick the pieces back together?
posted by
adnohr
on October 2, 2017 at 5:27 PM
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Beauty changes, as does one's concept of it. Great poem.
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on October 2, 2017 at 12:19 PM
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It was quite a scene with the goose...Our perceptions of people, places and things do change over the years.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on October 2, 2017 at 9:48 AM
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here now I am old and crazy I suppose I am trying to save the creatures in the woods but when I was a kid I would watch in fascination as Dad killed a sheep.
posted by
Kabu
on October 1, 2017 at 5:14 PM
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Goosey goosey gander, where do you wander?
Up the stairs and down the stairs and in milady's chamber... Your story of the goose brought this old verse to mind. I enjoyed your poem, all the questions...
posted by
Pat_B
on October 1, 2017 at 1:43 PM
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