At 01:00 PM 7/29/98 EDT, you wrote:

>Dyannesh at aol.com wrote:
>
I was considering getting a couple of
>domestic geese, primarily for pets. I mentioned this to a farmer/neighbor
who
>had experience with them and he wrinkled up his nose and said: "Ugh, they eat
>slugs".

I don't know what kind of geese that farmer had, but my white Chinese
goose, Lucifer, would turn up his nose (bill) and say "ugh" himself rather
than eat a slug any day. On the other hand, when I lived near San
Francisco and had a couple of Pekin ducks, they relished crunching up the
snails that seemed to be everywhere, and I imagine would have eaten slugs,
too.

Regards, Diann MacRae
Olympic Vulture Study
Bothell
tvulture at halcyon.com