Nicole Alderman wrote:I would love your feedback on dealing with geese and small children. Thanks!
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Really? I always thought my male was saying, "Cut it out, I'm the only one allowed to do that."Geese have very specific opinions about barnyard sex and feel that if it takes longer than 20 seconds, then the partner is saying she isn't in the mood.
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Jay Angler wrote:r ranson wrote:
Really? I always thought my male was saying, "Cut it out, I'm the only one allowed to do that."Geese have very specific opinions about barnyard sex and feel that if it takes longer than 20 seconds, then the partner is saying she isn't in the mood.
While I have never had a homestead goose, we lived a mile from a duck pond with a gaggle of domestic geese, and the yearly migration of Canada geese. The domestic geese were aggressive and mean, pecking at children. They spit and hiss and blow raspberries at everyone passing, even my pitbulls are afraid of them. Maybe if I only had a couple, and raised them from birth, I would trust them with my grandchild, but I'm not sure. If all else fails, geese are good eating, lots of fat to capture.
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Rob Clinch wrote:If you want the goose to protect the duck than you should only have one, if there is two then they will protect themselves. This is the same as llamas and donkeys that are used as livestock guardians. For best results raise a single gosling with your flock so it bonds to the ducks, that way it knows that is it’s job. In my experience with a pair of geese they will not protect anything but each other, they used to chase chickens away that would get too close, I’m not sure if the same would go for ducks.
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The year our geese arrived, I went out to the field. One of the geese had blood on his breast and was standing over a duck and was clearly reticent to let me intervene. When I did, the duck was clearly injured and it clearly was a bird of prey injury, *not* damage done by the goose. The duck went to the chicken hospital for a few days, and protective custody for a week, and was back playing with the flock after than.She thought the gander had killed them, but the injuries indicated something other than a goose. We're thinking this is nothing to worry about.
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r ranson wrote:...
my geese like simple catigories - they seem to have their own words/noises/body langugage for these things:
sky monster - danger from the sky
land monster - danger from the land
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This is why I like to have Muscovy moms hatch and brood my Noisy Ducks (Golden 300's and Khaki-C's). The Muscovy still have some sense and do try to impart it on the Khakis, although sometimes it seems that Khakis are the equivalent to rabbits in the ecosystem - prey to everything else - but even the rabbits are smart enough to run occasionally.I'm hoping the geese will teach the ducks a wider vocabulary and impart some intelligence to the flock!
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