New pup in town and a geese update

Well we have yet another addition to the neighborhood canine club. A chocolate lab named Cooper. I think he is only 3-4 months old. He lives right next door, just across the pond. He is old enough now that his parents let him out to play. And boy, does he play! They played like this all day Sunday. Cookie was exhausted at the end of the day. Cookie's other young friend, Bandit, comes and joins in on the action. Angel smartly stays at a distance but voices her opinion. :)

Ok, so now for the geese update. As some of you know we inherited a male and female goose with the house. The female disappeared and Gabe and I bought three more females for our lonely male. Sadly, 2 of the females were ambushed by coyotes so we were back to just the male and one female. The female laid eggs last fall and did what she could, but without the proper shelter, the eggs were quickly eaten. Not long after that, they decided to move to our neighbors pond (I can't say that I blame them!) and have been there ever since. They have a pretty nice set-up at their new home and are well cared for. The pond is nice and protected, and they were allowed to bunk with the chickens in the chicken coop at night. A few weeks ago, we got a call from the neighbor who said they finally had babies. So Monday night we went over to see them. Unfortunately, they are no longer babies. But I took some pics nonetheless. :)

Here they are following mom and dad. 5 babies - although they look like adults. Mom and dad are in the front. Mom has the orange beak and dad has the white neck.

Its quite amazing they are all still alive and have not met their fate with the local predators. We are told mom and dad are very good parents.

We are about to enter our busy season, with lots of activities. So the dry spell on the blog should be breaking soon. Hope you are all doing well. Stay tuned for more antics on the Schnelle farm!