GEKA: adventures begin

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Have a nice Saturday afternoon, dear friends!
Sometimes our animals inspire me for near-literary feats. Like the goose Geka, for example, which I truly consider my adoptive goose.
In fact, we do not breed birds, we have enough adopted. In addition, being vegetarians, allowing uncontrolled reproduction, we run the risk of being evicted from the house by all this poultry house. But sometimes there are oops))) surprises, when feathery mothers manage to hide the nest very carefully. So Geka was born.

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As a cheerful tramway family of tiny goslings with a solid gray Mother Goose at the head sizzled to the lake.
Only the egg, abandoned in the nest , was now crying quietly. The gosling that was in it did not have time to hatch. Now he heard the voices of the Mother Goose, his brothers and sisters, and made every effort to attract the attention of the Mother Goose. But what could it do? And although itself it thought that it was knocking on the shell very loud, in fact, this knock could be heard only if you put the egg close to your ear.

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Mother Goose did not even think of returning. Nature is cruel sometimes. Mother Goose could not risk the welfare of the other chicks for the sake of one egg.

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It was getting dark. The egg was cold. Along with the cold came despair. There was less hope that Mother Goose would return to warm it.

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Suddenly the egg felt a touch, followed by a flight! The surprise was so strong that the egg was not even frightened. Through the shell, the gosling heard a strange word in an incomprehensible language that sounded like an "incubator." And suddenly it became dark and warm. The egg calmed down and began to fall asleep. Sitting in it gosling fell asleep too. From time to time there was a quiet buzzing and something turned the egg to the other side. This was good, because Mother Goose also turns the eggs, so that they warm up evenly and the goslings do not stick to the shell.

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A week later the egg cracked. The beaked gosling struck its way to the light with its beak. By the dinner-time the gosling was completely out of the egg. Thus the adventures of Geka began.

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Wonderful story! I did not know that the mother goose only makes one trip from the nest to the lake and never returns. I guess it's safer for the chicks to stay on the water once they arrive.

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This is not entirely true, I probably did not write it quite clearly. She takes care of her goslings. But if someone did not have time to hatch in time, then she leaves such an egg.

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