Different types of geese, to keep the lines different pens and coops?

[curlycropchics]

So this is my first go with geese. We would like to have eggs and eventually start breeding. We have Africans, white Chinese and sebapostol coming in April. I would like to keep the lines, especially in the sebapostol. So for that to happen, am I right to assume they need seperate pens and seperate coops or only during mating season? Can they graze together? We have a lot of space for them so I am able to seperate them.

 

[neo71665]

Your gonna want to keep the apart all the time.

 

[NatJ]

So this is my first go with geese. We would like to have eggs and eventually start breeding. We have Africans, white Chinese and sebapostol coming in April. I would like to keep the lines, especially in the sebapostol. So for that to happen, am I right to assume they need seperate pens and seperate coops or only during mating season? Can they graze together? We have a lot of space for them so I am able to seperate them.

I've read that geese like to stick with the same mate.
So if they choose the "wrong" mate, you might have a hard time getting them to take the one you choose.

I would probably separate them by breed now, so the only available mates are the ones you want them to have, and keep them separate until at least the end of the first breeding season. I would not even let them graze together until then.

After breeding season is over, you could try letting them graze together and see whether it works, or whether they fight too much, and that can help you decide how to handle them for the rest of the year.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

I've read that geese like to stick with the same mate.
So if they choose the "wrong" mate, you might have a hard time getting them to take the one you choose.

I would probably separate them by breed now, so the only available mates are the ones you want them to have, and keep them separate until at least the end of the first breeding season. I would not even let them graze together until then.

After breeding season is over, you could try letting them graze together and see whether it works, or whether they fight too much, and that can help you decide how to handle them for the rest of the year.

I agree.

 

[curlycropchics]

Your gonna want to keep the apart all the time.

Okay so it looks hubs will be making separate pens.

 

[curlycropchics]

I've read that geese like to stick with the same mate.
So if they choose the "wrong" mate, you might have a hard time getting them to take the one you choose.

I would probably separate them by breed now, so the only available mates are the ones you want them to have, and keep them separate until at least the end of the first breeding season. I would not even let them graze together until then.

After breeding season is over, you could try letting them graze together and see whether it works, or whether they fight too much, and that can help you decide how to handle them for the rest of the year.

I appreciate all the info, this might sound silly, also as goslings, seperated? Or can they be in the same brooder till they go out to their coop? I know they won't breed yet but just curious as to connections, If I seperate them at the coop will there be issues.

 

[NatJ]

I appreciate all the info, this might sound silly, also as goslings, seperated? Or can they be in the same brooder till they go out to their coop? I know they won't breed yet but just curious as to connections, If I seperate them at the coop will there be issues.

I have no personal experience, so I could be wrong, but I would expect you can brood them together without trouble. Separating them when you move them out to their coops should still be well before they are ready to look for mates.

 

[ColtHandorf]

For breeding they need to be separate. I let my Americans and Pomeranians run together after breeding season and through the winter as they are much, much less annoying. The few months they are separated, there's a lot of screaming and crying and fence pacing for no reason. They are literally beside each other, but for some reason, they just can't stand not all being in the same pen. Even when they are beating each other up. lol