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| For the health of your birds and any you may contact - please visit this site! |
Click on the above graphic for important tips about preventing the spread of
disease among backyard birds. This site explains perfectly the reasons why I won't let visitors past a certain
point on my property - the very lives of my birds may depend on it!
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| George - a gander - at 14 weeks olds (with female trout colored runner in background) |
This website is for my trio of Shetland Geese. My geese were purchased as breeder quality day-olds
from Holderreads Waterfowl Farm and Preservation Center the week of May 23, 2005. Their tiny size and easy sexing
were the two main reasons that I chose the breed. Additionally, the Holderreads catalog described them as friendly.
So far, mine have been absolutely adorable. I have spent as much time with them as possible so that I will be as much
a member of their flock as is humanly possible. I'm hoping this will help keep them as friendly as possible when
breeding season arrives. Also, I made a point of ordering more runners at the same time since Holderreads recommended
raising them together in order to have them get along as adults. I am hoping that my little trio of Shetlands will be
happy here with my runner ducks and will nest and reproduce. They are currently a critically rare breed. That
is another reason for this site. I hope to introduce others to these tiny geese and in some way help to bring them back
from the brink of extinction. So please check back from time to time and see what I've learned or just what pictures
I've gotten since your last visit. Building a website takes a lot of time, so please be patient.
I hope this site is useful as a way to see Shetland geese up close and in real life. Anything I can
think of that may be of help to someone else will be included as it comes up. But I have no plans to include information
or advice on health or care other than to tell what I have experienced. There are many good books that thoroughly
cover raising geese - Dave Holderread's The Book of Geese is a good example. I only have a handful of personal
experience and so do not feel I am qualified to give out advice.
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| George, a male Shetland goose, and his tall buddy Patrick, a runner duck drake. |
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