More Goslings

We have more goslings. Late last week another one of our geese hatched her eggs. Sparks had been sitting on 4 eggs for around a month and they finally hatched. All four hatched and although Sparks didn't have a very good idea on how to be a mother at first she learned fast. I had to lift the goslings out of the little house where Sparks had built her nest as the ledge to the door was much too high for them to get out of. Since then she has only gone in there once. A day or two later I came outside to see the 4 goslings sleeping beside Meesa, one of our other geese, and Sparks sitting in the house apparently under the impression that she was sitting on her goslings. After we set Sparks to rights by forcefully removing her from the house and showing her where the goslings where she seemed to loose most of her interest in the house. We put the goslings in the house with her once and they stayed in with her for almost a day before several of them escaped and we helped the others out. Since then I have never seen Sparks in the little house. All of her little goslings seem to be doing fine, especially since both Meesa and her sister Miah have pretty much adopted the goslings too. Meesa had raised a brood of goslings a few years ago so she probably has a better idea what she is doing than Sparks does. Everybody is doing very well now, even going on illegal jonts down to the neighbors whenever I'm not looking.