Considering Adding A Goose To The Family...

[Fuzzbutts]

My geese, ducks, and chickens all live together as well. Ducks and geese get along fine in my experience. The geese definitely make it clear that they are the dominant ones, but otherwise they're all fine. I have a gander that loves my Call ducks and lives with them and they all do very well together.

I noticed you said you were thinking of getting a goose, single, when you made the thread. Geese are very social animals, and if you want geese, you need more than one. One single goose does not cut it. They are much happier with friends of their own species. I had a single goose for awhile, and even though I had ducks and chickens, she was still very lonely. As soon as I got more geese, she bonded to them immediately and they are now inseperable.

As far as noise goes, geese can be noisy. Some breeds are more noisy than others. Chinese geese, for example, are a very noisy breed. All geese will alert when they see something they don't like, or if they see something exciting, etc. Mine call loudly to me and each other whenever I go outdoors, then settle down afterwards and are pretty quiet. Their normal speaking voices are quiet, but they are loud when they alert.

You might want to get two females, if you don't want goslings. Ganders can get aggressive towards other birds and humans during the breeding season. My adult gander is a sweetheart and is never aggressive, but I have a very docile breed and he's always been that way. I'll be waiting to see if his son is the same way when breeding season hits this year.

Very helpful! I wasn’t sure if they were very social, but I suppose it makes sense! I wouldn’t want to have a lonely goose
I feel if we do get geese* we would get two females. We have never had a male chicken nor duck so that would be VERY unfamiliar territory.
Thank you!!

 

[Fuzzbutts]

@Fuzzbutts I hope your adventure is great fun.

So far our chicken and duck adventure has been absolutely incredible and heart warming, I’m sure adding new additions would only make it that much better

 

[donkeydew2farms]

I have 1 goose a small gander that thinks he is a duck he lives with three ducks and is happy. they are in one pen . on the other hand I have one gander that hates ducks especially white ones . so 10 geese are in one pen and the others are in there own pen.this is what could happen.She got better a lot of doctoring.

 

[Fuzzbutts]

I have 1 goose a small gander that thinks he is a duck he lives with three ducks and is happy. they are in one pen . on the other hand I have one gander that hates ducks especially white ones . so 10 geese are in one pen and the others are in there own pen.this is what could happen.She got better a lot of doctoring.View attachment 1231642

Poor thing. I'm glad she got better!