The Goose and Hen is a family-run farm in Harvard, Massachusetts. We raise and sell chickens, ducks, heritage turkeys, geese, rabbits, guinea fowl, goats, and pigs on 4 1/2 acres of land. Farm-stand hours: Every day 7 a.m.-7 p.m. Farm-stand location: 85 Old Littleton Rd, Harvard, Mass. Contact us. Questions or comments? Don't hesitate to reach out!

The spruce grouse (Canachites canadensis), also known as Canada grouse, spruce hen or fool hen, [2][3] is a medium-sized grouse closely associated with the coniferous boreal forests or taiga of North America. It is the only member of the genus Canachites.

"The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs" is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 87 in the Perry Index, a story that also has a number of Eastern analogues. Many other stories contain geese that lay golden eggs, though certain versions change them for …

2025年1月7日 · In "Jack and the Beanstalk," it's actually a magical hen that lays the golden eggs, not a goose or a chicken. Imagine the wonder and joy of discovering such a special creature in your own...

Geese are raised commercially for meat, feathers, down and foie gras (a delicacy made from the fatty livers of ducks or geese). Some geese are also kept as guard animals since they readily detect sounds that are not normal to the area in which they are kept. Geese have been known to chase away wild cats such as a lynx. Vocabulary.

There was once a Countryman who possessed the most wonderful Goose you can imagine, for every day when he visited the nest, the Goose had laid a beautiful, glittering, golden egg. The Countryman took the eggs to market and soon began to get rich.

A goose (pl.: geese) is a bird of any of several waterfowl species in the family Anatidae. This group comprises the genera Anser (grey geese and white geese) and Branta (black geese). Some members of the Tadorninae subfamily (e.g., Egyptian goose, Orinoco goose) are commonly called geese, but are not considered "true geese" taxonomically. [1] .

A cottager and his wife had a Hen that laid a golden egg every day. They supposed that the Hen must contain a great lump of gold in its inside, and in order to get the gold they killed it. Having done so, they found to their surprise that the Hen differed in no respect from their other hens.

The Goose and Hen is a family-run farm in Harvard, Massachusetts; we raise chickens, ducks, rabbits, and geese on 4 1/2 acres of land. Store Hours: Every day 9 a.m.-7 p.m. We have moved!

Geese are good at deterring predators from your property. Their eggs are also edible, tasty, and quite large; the volume of one goose egg is about the same as the volume of three or four chicken eggs. Geese lay fewer eggs than chickens or ducks: usually 30-40 per year. In the website designer's opinion, roast goose tastes better than turkey.