weeder Geese

[walls0stone]

anyone ever had weeder geese? They say that this bird will not eat your plants, but will eat the weeds...how can this be so?

[MooseToo]

i think you have to pay them a bit extra -

[walls0stone]

so none of you have used this?

[Deberosa]

so none of you have used this?
Yeah, but I plan to make alot of money on the secret so I don't plan on sharing it here. ;D

[walls0stone]

very cute
so you paid $1,500 a week to study them? Did learn the secret art and mystery of weeder geese? Who was your teacher? are you American or Brittish instructed?

[Deberosa]

very cute
so you paid $1,500 *a week to study them? Did learn the secret art and mystery of weeder geese? *Who was your teacher? are you American or Brittish instructed? *
30 plus years as an undergraduate in the School of Hard Knocks. Currently working on a Doctorate in Trial and Error. Both extremely expensive endevours. ;D

[walls0stone]

so no return on investment?

[Deberosa]

so no return on investment?

Well, I am living the self reliant life I've always dreamed of - that's a pretty good ROI to me!

[walls0stone]

so what's the weekly income on weeder geese? 1,500-2000?

[bookwormom]

are they supposed to be a special breed? geese are used for weeding strawberry fields, like some folks in Holland use them. they prefer long bladed plants, like grass, corn, they love Johnson grass and they never watch where they step, that is my experience with geese. I would say, get a weed eater. unless you plan on eating the geese. we have 9 geese and as far as I am concerned that is 9 too many. It is roast goose for christmas here.

[walls0stone]

I would eat them, otherwise you don't get your money back.
I was told to let the plants grow to a certain hight so they don't dammage them. Somone said when grass is at the highth were you would spray it, just under knee high, then put them out.

What's Johnson grass?

[tufhelp]

Here is a link about weeding geese:

http://www.metzerfarms.com/weeder.htm

Ducks:

http://sciencelinks.jp/j-east/article/199912/000019991299A0461638.php

I seem to recall a mini-big to-do about using what I remember as ducks (could have been geese) to weed fields in California a few years back. It was either a news story or on a 60 minutes like show. They would bring the ducks to the fields in a special semi trailer and herd them down the rows of the filed and they would do the weeding as well as leaving rich fertilizer deposits in their wake – would you call that double “duty”? (He he, I said duty!) It seems the animal rights wackos were instrumental in putting the kibosh on the enterprise tough. You see the entrepreneurs we “exploiting” the animals… Yep, they gave them all they could eat, they traveled in virtual luxury, they were rested and rotated with days off, they weren’t slaughtered – must have been tough!

About that time I also remember them screwing up another animal project, this time with pigeons. It seems the Coast Guard was training pigeons to help search for people lost at sea. The pigeons apparently have really keen eyesight and could spot the orange/red live vests of victims in the sea with much great accuracy that the human spotters. They built little domes of clear plastic that were affixed to the bottom of planes and helicopters where the pigeons would gaze at the vastness of the ocean and peck a button when the saw any victims. They could recognize the life vests from a great altitude and distance way before the human counterparts with nearly 100% accuracy. Needless to say they were valued crew members and were well cared for – but NOOoooooo, they also were being exploited…

[bookwormom]

What's Johnson grass?



well, if you don't know you have not missed a thing. a big grass and tough to deal with. However, cows like it and give more milk on it. and geese like it too. I hate it in the garden.

[walls0stone]

found it tobe somthing elts here, one of those things that has a diffrant name in another place..but now I know what you mean.

Thanks book