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so while we were at the farm, somehow the topic of the Untitled Goose Game came up. I must have described it compellingly enough, or Dude did– he’s actually seen it played– and I read some of Daniel Ortberg’s amazing essay about it– and BIL was intrigued, went and looked, saw that it was on sale, and bought it. So he played it rather a bit, and we discovered that the soundtrack is all delightful piano music. (Apparently it’s a Debussy piece they sort of chopped up and recorded in pieces, and deploy strategically– well, it’s lovely and also funny.)
Separately from that, but not entirely separately, I brought up that, i believe it was![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
salamanderinspace, who’d recently had a dinner party and cooked a goose. BIL had idly contemplated raising a few geese along with the other poultry, but hadn’t much researched it– there’s nobody else doing it locally really, so it’s not like there’s an established market exactly, but it does seem like it’d be cool. But when I brought it up again, during Christmas as we were sitting around, he got out his phone and did some basic research, and was sort of nodding along until he got to the part where once geese are about six weeks old they can live entirely on grass.
!!! That sold him, immediately, and now he’s seriously looking into it. So, thanks, popular culture and Internet zeitgeist and alsosalamanderinspace, because it seems like an excellent idea.
(It’d be a super different business model than chickens or turkeys; the goslings cost like $20 each, but also can brood their own eggs, so what you likely do is buy a small breeding flock, raise them to maturity, and then raise their offspring a few at a time as they come for your meat. Which is unlike all other poultry, where you buy day-old chicks or poults for like $1-5 each to raise and then process them all and start again with more purchased day-old hatchlings for your next batch. So it’d take some logistical arrangements, but– you could actually have grass-fed poultry! People demand it all the time but don’t understand that chickens can’t live like that. So he’s very interested in this.)
(Of course, if you maintain a breeding flock, you’ve got to overwinter them, and that means you’ve got to figure out what to feed them when there’s no grass. But! Still! How fascinating!)
so while we were at the farm, somehow the topic of the Untitled Goose Game came up. I must have described it compellingly enough, or Dude did– he’s actually seen it played– and I read some of Daniel Ortberg’s amazing essay about it– and BIL was intrigued, went and looked, saw that it was on sale, and bought it. So he played it rather a bit, and we discovered that the soundtrack is all delightful piano music. (Apparently it’s a Debussy piece they sort of chopped up and recorded in pieces, and deploy strategically– well, it’s lovely and also funny.)
Separately from that, but not entirely separately, I brought up that, i believe it was
salamanderinspace, who’d recently had a dinner party and cooked a goose. BIL had idly contemplated raising a few geese along with the other poultry, but hadn’t much researched it– there’s nobody else doing it locally really, so it’s not like there’s an established market exactly, but it does seem like it’d be cool. But when I brought it up again, during Christmas as we were sitting around, he got out his phone and did some basic research, and was sort of nodding along until he got to the part where once geese are about six weeks old they can live entirely on grass. !!! That sold him, immediately, and now he’s seriously looking into it. So, thanks, popular culture and Internet zeitgeist and also
salamanderinspace, because it seems like an excellent idea.(It’d be a super different business model than chickens or turkeys; the goslings cost like $20 each, but also can brood their own eggs, so what you likely do is buy a small breeding flock, raise them to maturity, and then raise their offspring a few at a time as they come for your meat. Which is unlike all other poultry, where you buy day-old chicks or poults for like $1-5 each to raise and then process them all and start again with more purchased day-old hatchlings for your next batch. So it’d take some logistical arrangements, but– you could actually have grass-fed poultry! People demand it all the time but don’t understand that chickens can’t live like that. So he’s very interested in this.)
(Of course, if you maintain a breeding flock, you’ve got to overwinter them, and that means you’ve got to figure out what to feed them when there’s no grass. But! Still! How fascinating!)
