Tag: backyard poultry

One of our geese — the youngest; we called her “Goose” — had an untimely and yet strangely timely date with her maker yesterday. Allow

With winter closing in on us, snow falling and ice forming in the animals’ water bowl, I am gripped with a bird-owner’s seasonal anxiety: will

Today, I waited until noon before finally braving some steps out into our backyard. From inside, looking out through windows into the heavy sleet, the

This morning, when I went out to tend to and mingle with the flock, I happened to see one of our old hens, Groucho, a

Last night we cooked up the two ducklings we harvested a couple months back. It was quite a day in the kitchen. First, I baked

The Oxford English Dictionary defines “duck” as a web-footed broad-billed swimming bird, and “goose” as a web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic bird [emphasis added; definitions edited for brevity]. So