Saturday, March 23, 2013

Lucy The Goosey MOVES!!! Grudgingly...

Howdy Doo, from the Funny Farm!!! How Doo to all those that have enjoyed my past stories about my little "farm" and to those that have sent me notes asking when I would be writing more.

I'm back and do you know since Rowdy, Oreo, Lexington & Precious moved it had gotten pretty boring. Sarah and Sassy escape from time to time but they don't work up any funny stories. Just boring old life. Lucy talks to us but still...

Now don't ask me how but a rooster and 3 hens have revitalized the Funny Farm and they aren't the funny ones. Goliath is the biggest rooster I've ever seen and his goal is to eat me. No joke. One hen was getting picked on and so we had to move her out and in with the Silkies. The Silkies aren't regular laying hen fans so, yeah, you guessed it... BUT, they tolerate her most of the time. She keeps to herself and out of their way and they are good. However in a pen with NO way out the hen gets in and out of the Silkie cage. Weird I know. I go out and she is in at night and out in the morning. Guess she is a ghost. HAHA. More on her later.

We couldn't keep Sara Jayne and Sassy Maye in the barnyard area so we moved them into the backyard and moved our dog, Spoochie Grace, into the barnyard. Spooch is the size of a small horse and so she loves the extra space but she also enjoys chasing Lucille "Lucy" the Goose. Lucy is very bossy and vocal and we have never clipped her wings and she has never flown away. I think that is odd but obviously she is happy here. She would love to be a Mother Goose so if anyone knows where I can get fertile geese eggs or a couple goslings let me know. I'm thinking about letting her be a Momma. This post is all about Lucy!!!

Spooch enjoys and good game of chase with Lucy from time to time and though she has never hurt her or "caught" her my Mom freaks out EVERY time. So I believe it was me that came up with the idea... throw Lucy in the backyard with the goats until we can build her a pen all her own. Well, After a couple days, Mom out of town, Dad mentioned to me at midnight one night that the goats water bucket is on the back deck and Lucy doesn't go up there. So we talked and decided we would put a storage crate that is extra back there and I would go around get the water hose over the fence to Dad and turn the water on and then that would serve her until we could figure out what else to do. On my way around I thought, what a retard I am. If I'm going through all this trouble why not dump her little swimming pool and throw it over. HAHAHA, she liked that idea but oh boy did I ever get a goose cussing in Goose-ese. You would have to understand the language as I do. She was mad as only Lucy can be because that pool hit the ground with NO water. As soon as the water started running into the pool she was in the pool just a honking and bathing. She makes me laugh so hard. So that was that... But was it???

This morning Dad looked out the back door and said, the goats needed water and he would get it. He filled up the water jug and took it out back and came back in and said Lucy wasn't out there, he honked at her and she didn't answer (she always answers you). So I grabbed shoes ran outside and sure enough, no Lucy. I looked everywhere, in the goathouse, under the deck, still no Lucy. So I ran out the front and around to the barnyard and yeah, it rained today and it's a muddy mess out there. Ran over to the barn and there in a corner under dog area was Lucy in a corner on her nest. She escaped the backyard through a little hole Spooch dug out to see into the backyard. So I grabbed her up and 2 eggs and carried her through the house and put 2 eggs near her pool. Nope that did not work. She ran the fence honking and then headed towards Spoochs peephole. I blocked it up yelled at Dad to come help and then I went out walked the mud back across to her nest and gathered the 6 eggs that were left, Spooch had taken off with 1. I also grabbed hay, etc from her nest and we carried it back around. That dumb, well actually rather smart goose, went over counted her eggs and arranged them, came back out and started griping through the fence, she knows there is an egg missing I think. So for now she has her nest rearranged and has bathed and seems to be settling into backyard living but WOW, this battle will be renewed once the chicks start hatching and she heads back over to chicknap or try at least. 

Hope my Funny Farm friends enjoy our latest... I'm thinking about getting ducks this year, I want Mallards, I'm picky. LOL. check out my previous post to see pics of our newest birds!!! 

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