Hitchhiking Bird!

I ordered some day old ducks and geese and when I received the box and removed them, there was a little bird in the bottom of the box.    I wasn't sure what it was.   Looked like a pheasant, but was too small for a pheasant.   I called the hatchery which shipped the ducklings and goslings.    They didn't put him in there so what we figured that it escaped from a box at a post office somewhere in transit.   The postal employees caught it and put it in my box. 

Here is a picture of the ducklings and goslings in the box they were shipped.

 Here is the picture of the bird that was hitching a ride.

I kept the bird for 3 months until it was bigger.   It turned out to be a chukar partridge.   I found someone who was breeding pheasants and partridge in Jurupa Valley and donated the bird to them.

Here is a picture of an adult chukar

Pilgrim Geese - New Addition to the farm!

I purchased some pilgrim goslings from Metzer's hatchery in Northern California.   I also purchased some ducklings and they all arrived in the same box.
Pilgrim geese are an old breed that is listed as threatened by the Livestock Conservancy.    They are a calm and friendly breed of geese.    They are also an auto-sexing breed which means you can tell by the color of the babies which are male and which are female.   Males are white as babies and females are gray.
I received one male and two females.    Here are pictures of them as babies.

Here are some pictures of them when they are bigger

This is what the geese look like when they are mature.  You can tell the male (white) from the females (gray)