Dave Rosenberg

Thanks for the reply.  Yes as it turns out looks like Goose Aggression is to blame; the next day we discovered him on top of another one of the drakes but broke up the scuffle in time.

We’re debating whether “more birds” (e.g. adding a female goose) is the answer.  We’ve had this one almost two years and brought him up from a week old so he’s quite attached to us.  For what it’s worth, he was also together with the drake that was killed two- we brought them all home on the same day from the same source.

I’m a newbie to permies.com and figured this thread was the best place to post.  We have a single goose (male African brown) and 8 Ducks. Yesterday we lost our male Pekin, found him in the baby pool no open wounds so highly suspect one or more of the other birds did it.

My question(s) are- is it more likely that we have a problem with our goose or is it between the drakes?  Another drake has been hiding and limping up until a few days ago so we suspect there was conflict between the two male.  We’ve also seen the goose on top of drake on top of a female duck (“mating”).

Thinking a solution is to get a companion for the goose, even though he was raised with the Ducks if that helps. Also paying attention to our M/F ratio of Ducks, which up until yesterday was about 50/50. From what I’ve learned on this thread and other sources that’s too many drakes.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts, advice, suggestions.  We started keeping birds about 1-1/2 yrs ago so still a lot of learning to do…

Dave