{"id":65051,"date":"2023-02-16T10:00:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T15:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65051"},"modified":"2023-02-16T10:00:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T15:00:40","slug":"the-year-in-which-i-grow-our-food-pt-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65051","title":{"rendered":"The Year in Which I Grow Our Food Pt. 7"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Year in Which I Grow Our Food Pt. 7<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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A Place for Animals-Ducks and Geese<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

When we arrived here almost 13 years ago, we brought with us a small red coop of 10 laying hens, and a pair of\u00a0American Buff geese<\/a>\u00a0named Ginger and Ferdinand. The chickens no one questioned. But the geese\u2026.no one understood.<\/p>\n

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Arthur, the Chinese goose.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Keeping geese is odd in the US because the US doesn\u2019t keep geese (Europeans keep geese). It\u2019s shortsighted, because geese do a job, which I\u2019ll talk about below. To me, keeping geese in a country that doesn\u2019t keep them really just brings home the point that here in the US we don\u2019t allow our animals to work with us the way that they can. We see them as something to be extracted (just like everything else), instead of as allies. If anything at all, I hope this article will open your eyes to the other things animals can do for us besides providing food (which they do as well).<\/p>\n

Ferdinand and Ginger are no longer with us, though their descendants are. Over the years, I have had American Buff,\u00a0Pilgrims,<\/a>\u00a0a very loud and very affectionate\u00a0Chinese<\/a>\u00a0goose named Arthur, and now I have two Ferdinand and Ginger descendants named Persephone and Echo living with a pair of\u00a0Embden<\/a>\u00a0geese named Maxwell and Leona. As to ducks? Such a long cast of characters there. I\u2019ve had Pekins, Runners, Cayugas, Muscovys, Khaki Campbells, Appleyards, and White Crested (for pictures of these, see\u00a0here<\/a>). Why so many different types? Turns out that ducks might be delicious for humans, but they are VERY delicious to wild animals, as well as easy pickings…<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Year in Which I Grow Our Food Pt. 7 A Place for Animals-Ducks and Geese When we arrived here almost 13 years ago, we brought with us a small red coop of 10 laying hens, and a pair of\u00a0American Buff geese\u00a0named Ginger and Ferdinand. The chickens no one questioned. But the geese\u2026.no one understood. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33247,33701],"class_list":["post-65051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-j-siegel","tag-the-year-in-which-i-grow-our-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65052,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65051\/revisions\/65052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}