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My ganders just love babies too.

Friday trying to make Jurassic Park a reality with this one.

Beautiful!

Omfg I know the feeling!

My gander Parsnip has finally been hit with the horomones again. He’s transitioned from my reasonable polite boy that could invite you to tea, ask about your mother, and engage you in a conversation about his plans for the garden this year to “PINK BUCKET MUST DIE.”

Me: okay I’m going to trust you with your buckets tonight, don’t make a mess! My geese: sure no problem mom! “Keeps their beds nice and clean.” Me: I’m going to leave your buckets with you again, remember no playing in the water! My geese: will do mom! “Beds are nice and dry by morning.” Me...

Flying they do alright with, direction and landing seem to be more of an issue. Reminds me of my Delphi. One time she leapt off a bank in my upper yard and flew down to the lower yard. It was such a majestic sight until I realized she was headed right for the apple tree. Poor girl clotheslined...

It sounds like you have a good plan, supervised outings together until they start feathering then they should be big enough and used to each other enough to be together more often.

I have no expierience using incubators, I’ve let my girls do that bit in the past and for now I’m not breeding any more....though I want to 😂 @FoodFreedomNow knows more about incubators than I do!

I feel you! My geese are my babies too. I don’t judge other people who raise their livestock for food purposes, I’m not naive to the real world and people’s livelihoods, but my goose babies are mine and I can choose who they go to if at all. As it is I’ve only ever given away two goslings that...

They conquered the straw!

Poor baby!

Poor Thelma! Buckets can be dangerous sometimes! Leo once upended himself in a trough, it wasn’t big enough for him to turn around in but it happened in front of me so I pulled him out by the feet. My goose Friday had a similar incident to Thema’s, she somehow stuffed herself into a 5 gallon...

I just walked outside and I heard this clunking sound, around the corner I see my oldest gander Leo waddle up touting around the bucket, the handle of which he’d somehow looped around his neck. When Leo gets really upset he makes this soft sobbing sound, and he was heading right for me just...

I’d get two hens, lots of boys can get along, but it really depends on personality and sometimes it just doesn’t work out. Girls don’t necesarily get along with ganders but at least it usually isn’t a year round epic brawl if the relationships goes south. Of you don’t want goslings just take the...

Glad to have you here fellow goose friend!

My geese have now encountered chickens for the first time. Technically they had a few years before when my neighbor’s favorite silkie somehow made her way through the woods and into our yard. My geese kept their distance from that one, the sentient moving ball of fuzz was a terrifying sight to...

Ah yes, it’s breeding season and I’ve gotten some propositioning myself 😂 Truthfully it’s a good thing though, ganders are going to get hormonal no matter what and they either get territorial and aggressive towards people they don’t like or they try to get romantic with those they do like, it...

That’s perfect! The guerilla gander!

My big gentle boy Helios’s hormonal aggression has escalated. He’s developed a twist on the usual “charge, bite, and beat down” approach of the other ganders however. Instead Helios has developed hit and run tactics, twice now he’s ambushed me while cleaning out his pen. I’ll just be in there...