Here is a bit of a back story:
In April I went to buy chickens and they had a lonely African Grey gosling all by himself. I couldn't leave him there alone so I bought him and a Cayuga duckling to keep him company and swim with. Fast forward to the end September, things had been really well they would follow me around and finally knew for a fact my gosling was a boy (Mr. Wigglesworth) and my duckling was a girl (Jane). I decided that it might be nice to get them each a true mate.
I was lucky enough to find a female African / Toulouse mix the same age (Peaches) , and a male Cayuga (Harvey) a month or so older with the bonus of them being right down the street from each other. So Harvey the duck moved in easy enough with very little issues, Peaches the goose was not as easy. She would chase Mr. Wiggles around and he wanted nothing to do with her, he would hide behind my legs lol. Then he got mean towards her and she actually flew away (that was a fun adventure). Anyways she came back and within the next day or two, Mr. Wiggles decided she was pretty neat and would wait for her at the door to come out of the pen in the morning.
Within the last two weeks, Mr. Wiggles has gotten really cranky and aggressive towards me. While they were out wandering I decided to empty their swimming pool, I use a blue bucket, he came running across the yard wings open, head down hissing! I thought he was coming for me but when I threw the bucket to the side to grab him he actually went after the bucket and beat at it with his wings, feet and bill. That was the first time I have ever seen him act like that. I got quite a few bruises picking him up and getting him away afterwards myself trying to calm him down and put him in his pen (because he kept coming at me afterwards). Now I am seeing that Peaches seems to be egging him on, she stands right behind him when he acts up and honks with her head down. When she is calm he is totally find and I can walk around him, talk to him etc like I used to.
He never had any issues with the bucket in the past, and now when I try to go in and clean any water container he gets upset. I am wondering if someone went in my yard when I wasn't there and was mean to him or her with the bucket or one of the water containers. I'm trying to figure if Peaches is really the problem and if this is going to continue being an issue until she fully calms down and accepts me. I really love him and her, but I don't want to be putting up with attack geese. If anyone has had a similar experience or can think of some triggers that may be bothering him / her or both I would greatly appreciate it.
Wiggles is in the back, Peaches is in the front. (Harvey's tuckus is in there too)
In April I went to buy chickens and they had a lonely African Grey gosling all by himself. I couldn't leave him there alone so I bought him and a Cayuga duckling to keep him company and swim with. Fast forward to the end September, things had been really well they would follow me around and finally knew for a fact my gosling was a boy (Mr. Wigglesworth) and my duckling was a girl (Jane). I decided that it might be nice to get them each a true mate.
I was lucky enough to find a female African / Toulouse mix the same age (Peaches) , and a male Cayuga (Harvey) a month or so older with the bonus of them being right down the street from each other. So Harvey the duck moved in easy enough with very little issues, Peaches the goose was not as easy. She would chase Mr. Wiggles around and he wanted nothing to do with her, he would hide behind my legs lol. Then he got mean towards her and she actually flew away (that was a fun adventure). Anyways she came back and within the next day or two, Mr. Wiggles decided she was pretty neat and would wait for her at the door to come out of the pen in the morning.
Within the last two weeks, Mr. Wiggles has gotten really cranky and aggressive towards me. While they were out wandering I decided to empty their swimming pool, I use a blue bucket, he came running across the yard wings open, head down hissing! I thought he was coming for me but when I threw the bucket to the side to grab him he actually went after the bucket and beat at it with his wings, feet and bill. That was the first time I have ever seen him act like that. I got quite a few bruises picking him up and getting him away afterwards myself trying to calm him down and put him in his pen (because he kept coming at me afterwards). Now I am seeing that Peaches seems to be egging him on, she stands right behind him when he acts up and honks with her head down. When she is calm he is totally find and I can walk around him, talk to him etc like I used to.
He never had any issues with the bucket in the past, and now when I try to go in and clean any water container he gets upset. I am wondering if someone went in my yard when I wasn't there and was mean to him or her with the bucket or one of the water containers. I'm trying to figure if Peaches is really the problem and if this is going to continue being an issue until she fully calms down and accepts me. I really love him and her, but I don't want to be putting up with attack geese. If anyone has had a similar experience or can think of some triggers that may be bothering him / her or both I would greatly appreciate it.
Wiggles is in the back, Peaches is in the front. (Harvey's tuckus is in there too)
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