Chickens, ducks, geese together?

[Laura78]

Ok so right now I've got eleven 3-4 wk old chickens, four 10 day old ducklings, and two 3 day old ducklings. Everyone gets along great so far. I've been thinking of getting 1-2 geese for flock protection, or at least an alarm. Do geese do ok with chickens? I know that if there's no aggressive ducks or chickens those 2 will be ok and that ducks and geese are normally ok together. I'll be raising the geese with the other birds, so I'm thinking it might work. We've already talked that any overly aggressive birds will be eaten by either us or our dogs. We've got a small pond for the water fowl and will be putting the run around that, it will be filtered to help keep it clean.

 

[twotmama]

I have 23 chickens, 5 roosters, 7 ducks,2 turkeys, and four geese all together and they get along great, but they were all raised together too. Actually the geese protect the chickens and the others; they're good guard dogs I love them; and they are all running free., and go up at night together.

 

[banter]

I have ducks, chickens and geese that free range and occasionally have a minor scuffle, over food usually, or sometimes a male doesn't want anyone close to his sweet baboo. They work it out in a few seconds, and I've had no injuries to date. I pen them separately at night

 

[superkid]

they may get into fights when older so when i hatch them i seperate them!!!

 

[robot rooster]

I thought that Turkeys get sick off chicken poop...?

 

[tfpets]

Ideally, according to "experts" they do not thrive when mixed together.

Then again, according to "experts", we are not the ideal parents for the 3 children we adopted either.

It is whatever you make work for you....I have had them all together for years in the past, no problem except for teeny babies sometimes, which I would protect in a separate area with their mommy until they got bigger.

Tina

 

[robot rooster]

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"Amen to that!" what do the "experts" know anyway...

 

[jvls1942]

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define 'thrive" ..

I have muscovy ducks(5), two breeds of geese(8), guinea fowel(14), turkeys(26)and chickens(58) all running together.. some raised together and others just added to the flock as they came.. they seem to be "thriving".. my chickens lay eggs and the geese are starting to lay eggs for the season.. ducks are breeding so the eggs are not too long in coming.. I forgot the original question..LOL

 

[Laura78]

Thanks everyone. Right now the 5 wk old chickens sleep with 4 ducks and the pair of geese. It's cute to watch the ducks groom the chickens, lol. Each night all my water fowl take a swim in my tub together, yup all 13 of them, lol. It was cute last night seeing them dive under eachother.