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Good luck, hopefully there's still time to add a few to that shipment!

I have multiple geese and they are all friendly. Not touchy feely, but then for the most part waterfowl aren't touchy feely with humans. My ducks are the same way. Still, Lacie, my original goose, will eat of my hand. Her son Caesar, whom I hatched this year, will come up to me to chew gently on...

I definitely wasn't meaning to imply you were naive, and I apologize if it came off that way. I guess I can't say for sure that they don't have a flock of chickens at their house with one goose guarding them, although my guess would be that they don't. But I do have experience with keeping one...

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Please don't take this the wrong way, but the argument you seem to be presenting is that because keeping a goose alone with chickens might make it a better watchdog (and I would still argue that this isn't the case), it's okay to sacrifice its happiness to get the results that work better for...

As someone who had one goose with just chickens and ducks for years, I can tell you that what you were told is not correct. And Metzer Farms definitely doesn't keep just one goose with a flock of chickens, so they don't have any experience in this arena. As R2elk said, they're selling something...

Egyptians are very pretty, but I just wanted to let you know that they are not the same as domestic geese - in fact, they are not in the same species, or even genus. So, they'll be fairly different from any domestic geese that you are used to :) Not a bad thing, just something to be aware of...

Yep, lots of choices! I have tufted Romans myself. There are lots of colors and sizes and shapes of geese. Beautiful sumatras in your avatar, by the way.

Glad to have helped! You'll be hooked on geese once you get them, lol. Now you'll have to decide what breed you want.

Geese don't roost :) They sleep on the ground. You could add them to your current coop with the chickens.

Mine sleep in my hoop coop with my chickens. I would say at least five square feet per bird and at least four feet tall. Mine just have a kiddie pool :) Any pond at all that you can make for them they will appreciate. They will poop in it, so you'll want to make sure the filter can handle that.

So, I actually had one lone gosling at first. Her name is Lacie. I didn't intend to have just one goose, but her mate died in transit on the way to me and it was too late in the season to get more goslings at that point. She did imprint on me. She followed me around, snuggled with me, etc. But...

On a cold day in late March 2013, a small roman tufted gosling arrived at my farm along with an order of bantam chicks. She had a mate, but he died in transit - the fault of the post office leaving them in my mailbox instead of calling upon their arrival, even though they had been warned a week...