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    How do your geese get along with chickens?

    Thanks for all the responses. Sounds like the goose behavior varies widely. We've tested ours with chickens a couple more times since my original post, and their behavior is more like that of Capper2013 who described them as "velociraptors." They tend to spread out and encircle their potential...
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    How do your geese get along with chickens?

    We have 6-week-old chickens and 8-week-old African geese. The pullets are in a small run. We plan to let them range in our several-acre yard when older, as the geese do. This evening, we let one of the larger pullets out in the yard as a test, and the geese went after her pretty aggressively...
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    Ok to put goslings out side

    We live in Minnesota, and ours went outside after about 4 weeks. Pen has draft protection on 3 sides, and I put up a 4x8 plywood to somewhat block wind on the 4th side. They're 8 weeks tomorrow and no ill effects.
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    gathering geese in for the night

    We also are new to geese this year, and have a large pen where they stay at night for safety. The first couple nights it was somewhat difficult to get them in, but now they know the routine pretty well. We barely have to get them moving, and they head right in from anywhere they happen to be on...
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    Pale Marks on Bill

    One of our 7 African goslings (about 7 weeks old), has developed some pale marks on his bill, one is a long vertical line running most of the length of his bill, plus a couple of other splotches. These appeared maybe 7-10 days ago. The siblings show no such marks. All 7 are behaving normally...
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    Switching off starter feed

    Our Africans are 7 weeks. They've been on 18% non-medicated chick starter free-choice, with grass when we are home to let themgraze. Starting next week we'll have someone home most of the time so they can graze pretty much all day every day. We have acres of grass for them to eat. They're in a...
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