American(Buff, Blue, Lavander,etc.)goose thread! Post pics!

[RURU]

The buff girl with the dewlap in there is going to get much bigger than the American buff female. But at least they are both females.

I have 2 Buff Sebastopol female goslings and am so tickled to have them!!! I have tried for 5 years to get into Buff Saddleback female Sebastopol's. I bought one from a Big breeder and she died two months after I purchased her. Then bought a solid Buff smooth breasted female. She had a terrible need to chew everything in her path. She went into a different pen here and started chewing on the wire and electricuted herself.

MY husband had put the water bucket into a pan but water had went down into the pan and hit the heating coil and caused her death. But if she had not chewed on that wire she would still be with us.

 

[BarredRockGirls]

[COLOR=B22222]The buff girl with the dewlap in there is going to get much bigger than the American buff female. But at least they are both females.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=B22222]I have 2 Buff Sebastopol female goslings and am so tickled to have them!!! I have tried for 5 years to get into Buff Saddleback female Sebastopol's. I bought one from a Big breeder and she died two months after I purchased her. Then bought a solid Buff smooth breasted female. She had a terrible need to chew everything in her path. She went into a different pen here and started chewing on the wire and electricuted herself.    MY husband had put the water bucket into a pan but water had went down into the pan and hit the heating coil and caused her death. But if she had not chewed on that wire she would still be with us.[/COLOR]

You mean the one who has a bit of Toulouse in her will be bigger than the other one ?
I can see that so far she always has been . Both are. Coloring out buff at this point - which I loooove . But Lucy - the one who is a lil mixed - chews onEVERYTHING ! ugh she's a rascal! She can't take a step w/o somethin being in her mouth! Haha we keep a good eye on them now but it does worry me if she won't grow out of that?

 

[Miss Lydia]

You mean the one who has a bit of Toulouse in her will be bigger than the other one ?
I can see that

so far she always has been . Both are. Coloring out buff at this point - which I loooove . But Lucy - the one who is a lil mixed - chews onEVERYTHING ! ugh she's a rascal! She can't take a step w/o somethin being in her mouth! Haha we keep a good eye on them now but it does worry me if she won't grow out of that?

My goose who was 1 yr in April chewed on some of our bushes this past winter, If you have anything like young fruit tress etc you might want to put fencing around them to protect them, But geese love to chew, you'd think they were cutting teeth.

 

[RURU]

No Miss Lydia not cutting teeth just cutting bushes!!!!

Mine got ahold of my baby pink weeping crabapple tree and chewed the trunk so it died. We had a fence around it and for some stupid reason my husband took it up. Boy the geese ran to it to have tender bark!!!

I waited 5 years to buy that kind of tree. I have NO idea why he took the fence away?????

 

[Miss Lydia]

No Miss Lydia not cutting teeth just cutting bushes!!!!

Mine got ahold of my baby pink weeping crabapple tree and chewed the trunk so it died. We had a fence around it and for some stupid reason my husband took it up. Boy the geese ran to it to have tender bark!!!

I waited 5 years to buy that kind of tree. I have NO idea why he took the fence away?????

It's so true RURU the other day we had to stake our young peach tree because it's getting so heavy with fruit, The fencing I had around it was way to tall so dh says we don't need to put it back, I just cut it down some and put it right back around the tree, I know those bills would be gnawing on that tree come winter. Sorry you lost your weeping crab apple, I love crab apple trees. and yes mine has fencing around it.

 

[BarredRockGirls]

O Lordy! My whole front yard is full of growing honey crisp apple trees and I have a weeping cherry tree out there too ! My ducks and chickens have never ventured beyond the sides of the house - they always say in the backyard . I never cared if they did go out front but they just never have . Buuuut! Torn up fruit and willow trees will be an issue!! Wtheck! Maybe they will just stay w the others haha
Here's a pic from today i was inside so it's thru a window haha but maybe just maybe they are becoming friends??? Haha I hope so!

 

[RURU]

You better make sure to put fencing around them because sooner or later they will be trying to eat the bark.....

 

[Miss Lydia]

You better make sure to put fencing around them because sooner or later they will be trying to eat the bark.....

yep.

 

[flockman]

Yeah last year they gave our blueberry bush a very hard prune.

 

[flockman]

I will try to take some new pics today. To bad the buffs are all molting.