Is there any truth behind " the goose that laid the golden egg" ?

[Goldfreak]

An interesting historical excerpt relating to poultry eating gold......" This was not the first time gold has been found near here. Some specks were found in sinking another well in the neighbourhood and mine host of the Millers? Arms, late Crooked Billet, found some gold in a goose which he killed ".....

 

[goldengoose]

Short answer "YES"

 

[Eldorado]

A mate of mine told me his grandmother had a heap of ducks that used to roam the banks of the Shoalhaven pecking away and he said she would kill one every now and then.She had a little vial with some gold in it that she would find in the guts of the ducks.

 

[Heatho]

I've heard that Emus will eat gold nuggets.

 

[silver]

I've heard that Emus will eat gold nuggets.

Big guts too I'd recon

 

[Dave79]

I've heard that Emus will eat gold nuggets.

Only problem is that they are too quick to catch and run the detector over!

 

[Goldfreak]

I've heard that Emus will eat gold nuggets.

Opal also, they can see somethings in ultra violet.

 

[Jaros]

An interesting historical excerpt relating to poultry eating gold......" This was not the first time gold has been found near here. Some specks were found in sinking another well in the neighbourhood and mine host of the Millers? Arms, late Crooked Billet, found some gold in a goose which he killed ".....https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/10082/1533824307_dexati20180809233503.jpg

Looks like an Irish Lawnmower!! :Y:

 

[user 4386]

An interesting historical excerpt relating to poultry eating gold......" This was not the first time gold has been found near here. Some specks were found in sinking another well in the neighbourhood and mine host of the Millers? Arms, late Crooked Billet, found some gold in a goose which he killed ".....https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/10082/1533824307_dexati20180809233503.jpg

Yes, I have a newspaper report of this on a Victorian goldfield

 

[Goldfreak]

An interesting historical excerpt relating to poultry eating gold......" This was not the first time gold has been found near here. Some specks were found in sinking another well in the neighbourhood and mine host of the Millers? Arms, late Crooked Billet, found some gold in a goose which he killed ".....https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/10082/1533824307_dexati20180809233503.jpg

Yes, I have a newspaper report of this on a Victorian goldfield

Also many reports from WA involving chickens.

 

[user 4386]

An interesting historical excerpt relating to poultry eating gold......" This was not the first time gold has been found near here. Some specks were found in sinking another well in the neighbourhood and mine host of the Millers? Arms, late Crooked Billet, found some gold in a goose which he killed ".....https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/10082/1533824307_dexati20180809233503.jpg

Yes, I have a newspaper report of this on a Victorian goldfield

Also many reports from WA involving chickens.

Not surprising really, since many birds (except meat-eaters) swallow stones to assist with digestion of their food.

 

[JayInOz]

I have some huge prehistoric shark teeth that a mate of mine in America sent me. He said that in the same area where he finds the teeth, he also finds piles of "gizzard stones"- rocks from the crops of long extinct dinosaurs that did the same thing as modern chooks. Not a trace of the dinosaur left- just the worn stones they'd be carrying in their crops or guts. An old shooting buddy of mine from Hargraves years ago killed a couple of chooks and had a look in their crops to see what they'd been feeding on- apparently their main food was .22 shell casings he'd cleaned out of the landcruiser Jay.