trailsend wrote:
You know who else is bad - skunks. They can cause a lot of trouble and damage too. It's spring time, which is when we have the most trouble with small predators... fall is bad too for racoons. We keep a live trap baited by the barn.
and yes raccoons and small predators can get in any small hole, even ones you think are too small. Geese are great for making a fuss about predators.
We have been lucky not to have very many skunks around here. You will see them once in a while, but not to often.
Geese are good for yelling about predators--unfortunatly, though, these were Brown Chinese geese, and they never stop yelling, about everything and nothing. You know, the dog walks by, the cat comes into the pen, a scary looking sparrow flies over, and it's
Honk! Honk! Honk! That's one of the things we have been missing the most, is that goosey attitude all the time....
Geese are so hilarious, in a way they are like really clumsy cats, their own dignity is very important to them. If you "insult" one, i.e. pick him up, chase him, or sometimes even just look at themand laugh, they get very offended. They stick their bills straight up in the air and scold you like crazy. Then they will try to walk away from you and watch you over their shoulders at the same time, and will almost invariably trip and fall flat on their bills doing it. And of course, when you burst out laughing, it just ticks them off even more, LOL. They really have a ton of personality, and most are not nearly as mean as people think they are.
