All together now!

You have to appreciate all the wild animals now. No more snobbery of it being yellow bellied or rare!

Plump enough for the table, just joking!

That's a bonus!

I was thinking that too Siris; butter baised with roasted potatoes, carrots & onions.

Once I tried duck from an Asian supermarket's eatery. Nothing special. I'm too used to Chicken or Turkeys.

On the sixth day of Christmas my true love sent to me, six geese a laying..... (bit early yet Paul but it came to mind....)

LOL I don't want what these geese are laying. no thanks! Merry Christmas.

Ha!..could be compost. Think positive!

Years ago I rescued a Canada Goose, I tucked it underneath my arm and took it back down to the river, where I fed it on grain for a couple of weeks then it went back to the flock and was o.k.

Nice story Linda. Very rewarding to help out defenseless creatures. I once found a nest of baby robins in a brown paper bag. One died, but two grew up and flew off with their orange & brown feathers. I overturned my entire garden looking for enough worms for them.

I used to keep geese & raise the goslings for market but I could never bring myself to eat one - they have too much character. Strangely, I had no problem eating the ducks we raised though.
We also used & sold the eggs of both, they are delicious, 1 goose egg = 1 omelette, or 2 for ducks.

wow, that sounds great. Julia Child said the best omelettes are made with 2-3 eggs but she wasn't thinking goose. Must be rewarding to raise your own.

It was a good time, Paul.
If you're interested you can read all about them on Honeysuckle's blog, she & I each wrote stories about our geese.

http://www.growsonyou.com/honeysucklegold/blog/31260-boris-s-trip-to-the-vet

I will take a look - here is Julia Child's Omelette Show. I love that she chose the pan from Woolworth's over the 'status' pan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWi3NwDrQok

Good to know I make omelettes the right way except I use milk instead of water & tarragon instead of parsley.

I love tarragon and usually grow it fresh in my herb garden. It's great in mashed potatoes. Can chickens, ducks & geese all co-habitat?

Well, yes & no, they can wander about free range to a certain extent if the area is big enough but its best for them to have their own areas & you need to shut them up in their own shed for the night.
I wrote in Honeysuckles blog about how Dilly, the Aylesbury duck was a real pain as he fancied the big 'ol gals (geese) & we'd have to chase him back to his part of the garden. The geese had the front & orchard area & the ducks the back, the walled garden was between the two & the childrens pet rabbits hopped about in that. Our garden was about an acres & a half.
I've never kept hens though.