What does your goose coop look like?

[sianara]

sianara geese live well over 20 years old, unfortunately in todays fast food world many get rid of them at a very young age

CelticOaksFarm, I just realized I never responded to your comment, so sorry. It's good to know they are long lived because by that time I will also be OLD. lol I am still loving my pair of pilgrims that will be a year old at the end of April 2013. I am still anxiously awaiting her first egg which will be decorated and memoralized in a place of honor amongst all my other decorated eggs (check out my website to see some of them). These two geese still tickle me pink and I'm so glad I got them!

eta: Once I have done my spring cleaning (got to wait for the snow to melt and the temps to get above freezing lol) I will post a picture of my geese pen/pool/house.

 

[sianara]

Here is a veiw of our pens

.... bird netting on top as our biggest threat is dogs. We will be putting different tops on this year to help with sun/snow issues. Recomend 1/2 x 1/2 hardware cloth or 1 in chicken wire for the bottom to keep coon and other small preditors out.


These are our favorite houses. There is room for their food to stay dry in a front corner. Even with our weird weather here in Missouri the bedding away from the door stays dry.

psue, what are those containers you are using for houses? They are really cool looking.

 

[psue]

psue, what are those containers you are using for houses? They are really cool looking.

they are water containers.. they are also used for other liquids.. just make sure it was used for food grade stuff and not chemicals

My new Goose House



View of the Goose House and runs from the backyard



Inside



One of the stalls - right now there is just one, but we're working on building three more. They will be 3' x 6'.



Large dog house that a trio of the Sebs sleep in.




Some of the geese in their stall for the first night.

~ Aspen

nice shed Aspen

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

they are water containers.. they are also used for other liquids.. just make sure it was used for food grade stuff and not chemicals

nice shed Aspen

Thanks, I am very pleased with it. It still need some fixing, but it's 1000 times better than what I had before.

~ Aspen

 

[Going Bhonkers]

I stumbled onto this member's page and was SUPERLY impressed. This could definitely be modified for geese: https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/duck-house

 

[Goose and Fig]

I stumbled onto this member's page and was SUPERLY impressed. This could definitely be modified for geese: https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/duck-house

Yeah- check out that pond!

 

[Ash-Rose Farms]

question for the more experienced goose raisers, how much space for night area would trio (might make it two pairs later this fall) would need???? thinking of building or buying something big and able for me to walk in this year if it works out. and work for when they have little ones too. 6x12??? or bigger???

 

[Miss Lydia]

This is what we call Duckingham Palace. It is 24 x 48 (I think) and has a house and a little pool for them (their pool is a buried 600 gal stock tank). We clean the pool using a bilge pump. The pen is secure enough that they sleep under the stars 99% of the time; only on the most brutal of winter nights do we shut them into their house. They prefer it that way. They of course have access to it whenever they want but they don't often use it except to lay. It keeps the food dry, though!

Thats is a beautiful place.

 

[TheMauveDuck]

Requesting the guidance of experienced geese owners! We've been looking into getting geese for a while now and figure that we'll need a small breed because we're only on an acre. We currently have a duck coop and a chicken coop, the chicken coop is about 7 feet tall while the duck coop is sloped at 4 feet. Both coops have secure runs and the ducks have a fantastic pond! From the things that I've gathered from reading on this website and others geese are fairly compatible with other breeds. Though could the goose live in with the ducks? By the time we'd get it we would have at least 10 ducks in the coop. I worry it'll get cramped in there for them, especially when they're stuck in there on wintery days. There will be raised nesting boxes for the chickens and probably enough floorspace for the goose to sleep. I don't know how happy the goose would be with the chickens and we have some chickens that don't roost. Dose anyone have any experience with geese and other birds? Or some much needed advice???