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

[Miss Lydia]

Two will get in there and then a third will jump in and all chaos breaks out. They have emptied the pool by doing that. The big pool will hold 4 or 5. I have one that rarely gets in either pool. Usually the others sit outside the pool and watch that one in the pool.

The small pool is meant for the ducks since the geese chase them out of the big pool.

Your geese sound like mine everything belongs to them all the pools all the feeders etc.

 

[Kelsykin]

Your geese sound like mine everything belongs to them all the pools all the feeders etc.

Of course they are like toddlers and have the same rules. If they touch it, see it, smell it, the item becomes theirs and theirs alone until they don't want it and then that is even if they do not see you with it. lol

 

[Miss Lydia]

Of course they are like toddlers and have the same rules. If they touch it, see it, smell it, the item becomes theirs and theirs alone until they don't want it and then that is even if they do not see you with it. lol

You nailed it on the head just like 2 yr olds. lol stingy as can be.

 

[donkeydew2farms]

does any ones geese follow them around like a dog. mine do they walk behind me when I walk with my dogs , also I let them out of there pen to graze and I go in to the pen to fill tubs and the next thing I know they are right behind me so I take them out again and walk around with them. when I come home they know my truck and come running and flying and honking up to the front of there pen. I really love my geese. There is a question when breeding time comes will I have to separate the two pairs. I have a pair of blues and a pair of buffs. the buff where adopted by the blues this summer. the blues are over a year. the buffs are about 5 months. the reason I ask the male blue is aggressive to the ducks he tries to kill them he still does I have to keep them separated. I don't want him getting aggressive with the buffs. I want to be prepared . thanks.

 

[Miss Lydia]

does any ones geese follow them around like a dog. mine do they walk behind me when I walk with my dogs , also I let them out of there pen to graze and I go in to the pen to fill tubs and the next thing I know they are right behind me so I take them out again and walk around with them. when I come home they know my truck and come running and flying and honking up to the front of there pen. I really love my geese. There is a question when breeding time comes will I have to separate the two pairs. I have a pair of blues and a pair of buffs. the buff where adopted by the blues this summer. the blues are over a year. the buffs are about 5 months. the reason I ask the male blue is aggressive to the ducks he tries to kill them he still does I have to keep them separated. I don't want him getting aggressive with the buffs. I want to be prepared . thanks.

I am going strictly by what has happened here.Last year my pair adopted 2 goslings turned out male and female when breeding season started my oldest gander mated with both females and my young gander mated with the one he has paired up with but only after my oldest one. This year my youngest will be going on 2 yrs old so I am not sure how this is going to pan out there was some pushing in the pool last year but that was it. I'm going to be prepared just in case but even now with the 2 youngest almost a year and a half old my gander is still very protective of his mate and the 2 youngest. We're building another shelter for the geese in a fenced in area inside the big fence just in case I have to separate. I'm thinking with your being so young still things will be nice still this breeding season. I'll let you know what the second breeding season is like once it gets started here. lol

 

[donkeydew2farms]

thanks MissLydia I have seen the older one push the young female in the pool it look to me he was trying to get on her. she jumped out of the pool. I thought he was just being a bully. I really don't want him breeding her I don't want crosses. of course the young ones still will be to young I want them to take there time.

 

[Miss Lydia]

thanks MissLydia I have seen the older one push the young female in the pool it look to me he was trying to get on her. she jumped out of the pool. I thought he was just being a bully. I really don't want him breeding her I don't want crosses. of course the young ones still will be to young I want them to take there time.

If she becomes receptive to him he will breed her but she won't lay till next year. My Embden gander and my Buff female were mating when she was 5 months old. She didn't begin to lay till end of Feb this year,she was 9 months old, it didn't matter to me if they bred since I didn't let either female hatch any goslings. But if your wanting pure American next year you better separate them when breeding season begins. Actual breeding season late winter.

 

[donkeydew2farms]

question are American blues actually blue buffs? and my male buff has blue eyes is this normal. misslydia I will just pull the buff eggs .

 

[buff goose guy]

does anyone know if geese can get blackhead disease. My little pinky has been depressed lately and not wanting to socilize with the others her eating habits seem ok.and she loves the water but idk.

 

[Miss Lydia]

does anyone know if geese can get blackhead disease. My little pinky has been depressed lately and not wanting to socilize with the others her eating habits seem ok.and she loves the water but idk.

Here is some info. http://back40forums.com/index.php?topic=1484.0