I seldom do.

Fettiberg? Is that my new band name?

Great news. I bought a house and the septic tank passed an inspection. A few months later something was bothering me. My spidey sense was tingling. I called out someone to check the septic tank. They pulled off the cement cap and the 1940 brick and mortar wall of the septic tank moved 3 inches. Oh, and there was an inch between the water and the cap.

That hunch paid off. Disaster avoided. $7000 later I had a new septic tank and I had them put in a new leach field into the front yard instead of the back yard for livestock reasons.

The lesson here is that this whole situation can be fixed for less than $10,000. It worked for me so it has to work for the whole internet, right?

Layers of shitposting.

I checked his Truths including his deleted ones and I’m not seeing this. Also the post says he tweeted it but that’s clearly a red checkmark from true social.

“TITLE Pigeon-Shaped Box” Clothing ornament?

Currently dealing with that. When they are very young that is definitely an issue.

At some point every farm animal will have a last best day. The sooner you recognize when that is and resolve it the better everyone’s mental health will be. It is is an unavoidable fact of farm life.

But if geese have proper night time protection and plenty of grass you can expect them to live 15 to 30 years problem free.

Goose advice?

She lived just over a year and was healthy until she wasn’t.

In 6 years we have had one sick goose. She was always too small for her breed. Not sure why she was sick.

This year was the first injury of a goose. They did something that cut up a foot. We treated it with some safe wash and they recovered just fine.

Injuries to me have been numerous. The boys like to attack me when I’m putting them to bed so I occasionally end up with welts and bruises. The girls occasionally give me a nice little buffeting with their wings when I’m trying to remove them from a nest so I can take away their eggs.

I am from the internet. I’m here to help.

Depending on the time of year they will dodge or attack me. So they are very interactive. My wife can pet them.

We got them because hawks were taking out chickens. After we got geese that stopped. In addition to being excellent guard animals they also mow the grass and in the spring they give us giant eggs.

After the initial cost to buy, raise for a month until they can be outside and their housing they can live entirely on grass making them practically free to maintain. Best farm investment ever.

They shrank everyone for a Tiny Desk Concert. Les liked it so much he refused to reverse the process.

I have geese. I am a goose farmer / caretaker / victim. Can confirm.

I had decades of tech experience including Linux administration. I now have a homestead with geese.

Primus

An army travels on its stomach. – Napoleon

Americans can sit still because from farm to table Hispanics/Latinos are how food travels to American stomachs. Even the best pizza shop I ever lived next to (run by Pakistanis) still depended on central and south American labor to get everything into their Italian kitchen.

Not enough Latinos/Hispanics.

We fed him wet food.