Thank you miss Lydia :) the smallest goose just laid an egg today! I'm so excited haha. It's huge! We will work on separating them more permanently during matting season :) but thank you
So unfortunately we now only have the two geese, the biggest one and the smallest one. And today the biggest one started making a nest! But the smaller one was just eating all the material haha. The chickens would leave him alone (they are scared of the chickens and the ducks haha) so I...
Thank you :) but two of them are going to end up in the freezer because they keep picking on the other geese and our poor rooster has like 10 tail feathers because they have plucked that many out :( we have separated them for now, but they are soon to go. But since we separated the aggressive...
here are some more pictures, they are not that great, but I figured it might make it easier to tell. in the third photo the goose was trying to shoo the duck away from the bucket. The big goose seems to prefer to be somewhat separate from the other geese, if that means anything.
I tried to get pictures of them when they didn't know i was there, but the one attacked the rooster so I went in there to break it up. I think we might have to get rid of that goose because it won't eave him alone, but anyways here they are.
They are not yet a year old and have not started laying yet, they hatched in april 2015. I will try to get more pictures of them without them seeing me, but that might be difficult. Thank you! I will go out and try to get those pics
I have googled how to determine male or female greylag goose, but everything just seems to contradict each other. It says that males are typically larger, louder, and more aggressive. The females are shy, smaller, and have noticeable egg pouches under their bellies, but i have four geese and the...