I think they would be happier to have access to grass and light during the day so I don’t think a shed would be the best thing, I think you should focus on proving the geese aren’t a sound nuisance like the neighbors make them out to be.
Geese make noise, but so does every other animal but unlike a nuisance dog that can bark at all hours geese honk for particular reasons, it isn’t constant and repetitive so they can’t be treated the same as a nuisance dog.
So that would be another angle you could argue on, people can have dogs and people tolerate occasional barking in the day and night because dogs bark, you can’t make them not bark, but you can site someone for having a nuisance dog that barks constantly through the day and night.
A goose is no different than an average dog with the occasional honk/bark, they honk when they think a stranger is approaching and they honk to contact their family, but unlike a dog they don’t have the urge or will to do it all day and night like a dog can if unchecked unless they were separated and completely alone.
It’s exactly the same with hens, they chatter and cluck quietly amongst them selves like geese and now and then will announce if they’ve seen someone they know, contact their flock, or let them know they’ve laid an egg, but every sound they make isn’t full volume BAWKS at all hours.
So maybe try to explain their behavior like if they were dogs instead of geese, they couldn’t be classified as nuisance dogs if they were dogs, in fact if you could change their honk to a bark they’d be relatively unnoticeable by any normal person’s standards.
Geese make noise, but so does every other animal but unlike a nuisance dog that can bark at all hours geese honk for particular reasons, it isn’t constant and repetitive so they can’t be treated the same as a nuisance dog.
So that would be another angle you could argue on, people can have dogs and people tolerate occasional barking in the day and night because dogs bark, you can’t make them not bark, but you can site someone for having a nuisance dog that barks constantly through the day and night.
A goose is no different than an average dog with the occasional honk/bark, they honk when they think a stranger is approaching and they honk to contact their family, but unlike a dog they don’t have the urge or will to do it all day and night like a dog can if unchecked unless they were separated and completely alone.
It’s exactly the same with hens, they chatter and cluck quietly amongst them selves like geese and now and then will announce if they’ve seen someone they know, contact their flock, or let them know they’ve laid an egg, but every sound they make isn’t full volume BAWKS at all hours.
So maybe try to explain their behavior like if they were dogs instead of geese, they couldn’t be classified as nuisance dogs if they were dogs, in fact if you could change their honk to a bark they’d be relatively unnoticeable by any normal person’s standards.
