OK, I checked the weight on my official bathroom scale. Goose #1, dead 4 days now, weighs a paltry 10 pounds. Goose #2, dead 2 days, weighs 9 pounds. As the picture showed, these are very large birds. Given the snow and cold we have had they are not in good flesh. The current trend is for small grain producers to disc, sprout and re-disc their barley stubble in the fall. This does not help out the wintering fowl. We do not grow corn in this area so barley stubble and/or triticale or wheat stubble is about it. When we change out our field to a small grain I will not disc my stubble and no-till into it in the spring. Then I will show you some waterfowl pictures.
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