Bjjjones89
In the Brooder
- Jun 18, 2023
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So i ordered 3 geese last summer they are suppose to be 3 male french toulouse. Well i suspect one may be female. The one i suspect is ever so slightly smaller than the other 2 and has always hung back away from me when i have hand fed them. My suspicions are only getting stronger at this point. They are housed in 120sq shed with 7 female ducks. And have access to about a 25x25ft run outside along with trips into the garden. So i had gotten sick 
and had my husband put them up for the night. When i went to release them the next morning one of them looked like it had gotten beat up his bill was all scratched up and had some minor bleeding but along the back of his head was all moist i caught him and checked him out it was red and probably seeping that clear fluid wounds typically do nothing was open and bleeding looked more like an abrasion than say a laceration. I called my husband to make sure he wasn't like that when putting him up the night before. He said they had been fine. The water buckets and food dish was strewn around the coop so i thought maybe a rat got in and he did his job but then that didnt make much sense as there was no other evidence of such a thing. Well he didnt want to come out with the other birds so now my deduction became he got into a fight with one of the others. And my other more bold bird had a tiny scratch on his bill but nowhere near as bad as the other. So I'm guessing perhaps maybe that third one is a female and they are fighting over her or he tried to mate with a duck and the others didn't like him doing that i dunno. But today everything was strewn about again and his eye even had a little bubbly discharge. 1.So in closing do you think i possibly have a female and thats why this is happening. And 2. Im thinking about culling him before his injuries get substantial their purpose was for meat to begin with but we have gotten quite busy with the sale of our house and the purchase of another so havent had alot of opportunities. Any thoughts are appreciated
and had my husband put them up for the night. When i went to release them the next morning one of them looked like it had gotten beat up his bill was all scratched up and had some minor bleeding but along the back of his head was all moist i caught him and checked him out it was red and probably seeping that clear fluid wounds typically do nothing was open and bleeding looked more like an abrasion than say a laceration. I called my husband to make sure he wasn't like that when putting him up the night before. He said they had been fine. The water buckets and food dish was strewn around the coop so i thought maybe a rat got in and he did his job but then that didnt make much sense as there was no other evidence of such a thing. Well he didnt want to come out with the other birds so now my deduction became he got into a fight with one of the others. And my other more bold bird had a tiny scratch on his bill but nowhere near as bad as the other. So I'm guessing perhaps maybe that third one is a female and they are fighting over her or he tried to mate with a duck and the others didn't like him doing that i dunno. But today everything was strewn about again and his eye even had a little bubbly discharge. 1.So in closing do you think i possibly have a female and thats why this is happening. And 2. Im thinking about culling him before his injuries get substantial their purpose was for meat to begin with but we have gotten quite busy with the sale of our house and the purchase of another so havent had alot of opportunities. Any thoughts are appreciated
