Mean Goose

These ideas seem to be working! My 9 Year old daughter even picked him up and carried him half way across the yard! WOW I guess we won't be dining on goose.
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These ideas seem to be working! My 9 Year old daughter even picked him up and carried him half way across the yard! WOW I guess we won't be dining on goose.
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YAY!!! just make sure the ganders bill cannot get at your dd face they can really cause a serious wound if they bite, I know I had one.
 
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If none of this advice works, they become really tame when placed on a table between the mashed potatoes and the gravy
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anybody got any other ideas for a gander who pecks and injures my chickens? i'm not sure if it's a mating, dominance, or just irritated behavior, but my geese all occasionally bite the chickens and hang on -- really hurting my hens. the geese are ok with humans, even the kids are established as higher in the pecking order from them. but the poor chickens! they are free-range during the day and have their own separate coops at night. besides a visit to crock pot camp, what can i do?
 
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anybody got any other ideas for a gander who pecks and injures my chickens? i'm not sure if it's a mating, dominance, or just irritated behavior, but my geese all occasionally bite the chickens and hang on -- really hurting my hens. the geese are ok with humans, even the kids are established as higher in the pecking order from them. but the poor chickens! they are free-range during the day and have their own separate coops at night. besides a visit to crock pot camp, what can i do?
Mine are doing the same thing what I've been doing is separating my one gander from the group especially when I am away from home because 2days last week he had one of my ducks necks in his mouth. Once the worst perpetrator is separated from the other 3 geese they don't bother anyone. And when I reunite them all they act much better. It seems they feed off each other when it comes to aggression but when separated are pretty wimpy. Soon things will be better once breeding season is over.
 
thank you, @Miss Lydia . that's a good idea. i bet it will work.

we did have the two embdens penned up in a stall for a week or two prior to Easter. things were much calmer then. the most aggressive and largest one was Easter dinner, so now we have the other embden and the two gray saddlebacks free ranging again. maybe i'll pen Mo up for a few days. he is the worst remaining offender.

any other ideas for a gander who bites my hens?
 
thank you, @Miss Lydia . that's a good idea. i bet it will work.

we did have the two embdens penned up in a stall for a week or two prior to Easter. things were much calmer then. the most aggressive and largest one was Easter dinner, so now we have the other embden and the two gray saddlebacks free ranging again. maybe i'll pen Mo up for a few days. he is the worst remaining offender.

any other ideas for a gander who bites my hens?
I only have three geese (male and two females) and while they were initially in constant contact with my chickens and ducks as they got older the gander became more and more aggressive toward anything that was not goose. I was faced with either getting rid of him all together or finding space for the geese apart from the rest of my mixed flock. With a little work I moved the geese into their own coop and run with access to a field to graze in. Everything has been a lot more calm since then and one of my females is now sitting a nest that will, God willing, begin hatching this Friday.

His behavior however continues in a much reduced manner. When in the field he can get to the fence containing the ducks and chickens and he often makes a beeline to that fence to harass and snap at the other birds. On occasion he has flown over the fence in pursuit of the ducks. Fortunately for him he has not managed to do anyone any harm yet. While I know that he will actually become more aggressive once the goslings hatch I am hoping they will keep him occupied so that he will leave the other birds alone. What his behavior would be like if I had (when I have) more than one gander remains to be seen.
 
thank you, @Miss Lydia . that's a good idea. i bet it will work.

we did have the two embdens penned up in a stall for a week or two prior to Easter. things were much calmer then. the most aggressive and largest one was Easter dinner, so now we have the other embden and the two gray saddlebacks free ranging again. maybe i'll pen Mo up for a few days. he is the worst remaining offender.

any other ideas for a gander who bites my hens?
I pen mine to the ground when I see them biting anyone including trying to bite me. I get them behind the neck to keep the bite from happening and straddle them on either side and hold them like that for maybe 2min tops head facing away, when I let them up I give a shove just to get them started in the right direction, It's just either separating them completely from the hens or being there to correct as often as possible. I can usually tell when mine are after someone they get excited and start hollering then I know I need to get out there asap.
 

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