The full text of Chen Tianchang's Essay on Flocking Goose

Chen Tianchang's Essay on Goose Husbandry

There is a dialect in Songjiang, my hometown-"Goose with Stupid Head", which means Goose with Stupid Head. People often use it to describe stupid people, saying they are as stupid as geese. But according to my observation, geese don't seem stupid.

In late autumn, when the crops are harvested in the fields, we drive the geese to the fields every day and let them feed freely. The farm where we live is ten miles away from Fiona Fang, where there are many ponds. White geese often wander around the pond in twos and threes, and some like to stand by and wash their white feathers in the pond. The clear water reflects the white goose, and the red palm is bright. If it can be painted, it will be a quiet pastoral scenery.

These geese go home automatically on time every day. I see that they often look at the sun sideways with one eye, which may be based on the position of the sun in the sky to determine the time. Strangely, they can go home on time on cloudy days, which may be the so-called "biological clock".

In early spring, in order to observe the situation of each goose, we used purple medicine to write down the number on the goose head, and each nest was also numbered with chalk.

Interestingly, there are three hatcheries side by side, with a total of 120 nests. Most geese know their nests and can automatically sit in the right position.

During the breeding season, this goose is particularly interested in eggs. We feed regularly and prepare a small white bowl for each goose. After feeding, if you don't take the bowl away in time, it will disappear in the blink of an eye-the goose takes it under its stomach and hatches it.

We usually put 16 eggs in each nest. Every day when we "let out the wind", we will check the bird's nest, and sometimes we will find a strange thing: some bird's nests have an extra egg, while others have an egg missing. Fortunately, every nest has a "goose stall" and every egg has a number. As soon as you check, you will know which nest of geese has committed a crime.

Goose eggs are round, with three or four layers of bricks in the middle. How can they steal eggs?

It turns out that there are Martha and a smart card in the goose. It was a smart card that stole the eggs, and it must be Ma Daha who was stolen. Martha doesn't hatch eggs so carefully, and there are always one or two eggs exposed. If you meet the smart card next to Martha, you may steal eggs. Smart cards are jealous when they see eggs. It first reached out to tease Martha, touched the exposed egg, and saw that the other party didn't mind, so it "started": with its long neck and mouth, it carefully moved the exposed egg slowly. It first hooks the egg out of the neighbor's nest, then puts it on a platform only seven or eight centimeters wide at one end of the partition wall, and then hooks it into its own nest from the platform. This process takes almost half an hour, and the eggs have never been found broken.

Goose is not stupid, even smart; Perhaps it is their habitual action of standing still on one foot and listening to the ear, which makes people feel that geese are always dull?

Then a comment said:

After reading the article, people can't help liking geese. The author carefully observed the life of geese, and described the desirable pastoral scenery of geese foraging and gannets playing at the beginning. Then, he tried his best to hatch geese in this season. It makes people laugh after reading it. Describe Ma Daha's careless egg grabbing strategy and egg transporting skills vividly. How can people not like these lovely guys?

Although the article describes autumn geese first, then spring geese, which is different from the general routine, this arrangement is just in line with the arrangement effect from low tide to high tide. The essay "The Principle of Absence of Mind" written by the landlord.