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    American Buff Geese - Afraid/Hiding?

    Hello Miss Lydia, They are out playing in the water today. I waited outside well after dark, until I was frozen, last night waiting for them to go back in. I ended up going inside, leaving the back light on while i ate dinner. When I snuck back out they had decided to lay under the back porch...
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    American Buff Geese - Afraid/Hiding?

    Me too... thank you everyone for your help.... one last picture though... from my upstairs window, I'm feeling real good about this development.
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    American Buff Geese - Afraid/Hiding?

    I think that I read somewhere that they had limited flight at year 1, but the older and heavier they got they lost the ability around year 2. In this case I had a decision to make and I hope I made the correct one. The pacing started again, still no eating... I could not let this go on, the...
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    American Buff Geese - Afraid/Hiding?

    Unbelievable!!! She's alive.... I heard honking this morning and there she was in the neighbor's yard. Granted, we are on the side of a hill but I watched this bird fly from the neighbors house, past my second story window, around my house, over the top of the goose pen, and half way across the...
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    American Buff Geese - Afraid/Hiding?

    Yes, we have a lot of small ponds in the area, I remain hopeful that she will turn up. My Fiance called and said she had been talking to the remaining goose for about an hour, she tried to get the goose to eat some grapes but she still refuses to eat. The goose hissed at her and honked a couple...
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    American Buff Geese - Afraid/Hiding?

    I just don't see how it could be a predator, the goose was in the middle of the yard, surrounded by a bunch of unsuspecting chickens, nobody was disturbed, I was outside, no feathers, no noise, no anything. I suppose it could of went into hiding and something found it during the night but I have...
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    American Buff Geese - Afraid/Hiding?

    Hello Miss Lydia, Thank you for the reply, the shelter in this pen is much like a dog house, enclosed, private, full of hay but she refuses to go in it. She still won't eat, or if she is she's eating very little. I was out talking to her today and she didn't seem as panicked but she still spends...
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    Shawn

    Hello Everyone, My name is Shawn, I have pretty much always had chickens even as a little kid. I currently have about 15 leghorn, 8 Rhode Island reds, and 4 buff orpington, I also have an assortment of ducks, and most recently American Buff Geese. As a kid we had all kinds of chickens, a turken...
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    American Buff Geese - Afraid/Hiding?

    Hello Everyone, I am new to the forum and I wish that I had joined under better circumstances. So here is my dilemma, less than a week ago I purchased 2, one year old(roughly), female American Buffs from craigslist. They had just started laying eggs, and I have had geese in the past but these...
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