**Does anyone know what this is?**

[JStark]

Cajun dude, here in California you can hunt Canada geese from October through the end of January. The information you posted is correct, but a hunting license and a federal 'duck' stamp provides the requisite permit required by law and referred to in the first phrase of the noted regulations.

But, it is absolutely imperative for folks to know that dealing with migratory birds is outlawed, unless you have the requisite permits, and even in this case. And, though it pains me to say it, picking that bird up in the parking lot was at least illegal, and if you'd chosen to let it be, you would have also been on ethical grounds, as well as following the law.

It's a tricky ethical conundrum, and a person must make their own decisions in those situations. I don't know what I would have done, 'rescued' it or let it be, but I don't think either decision would have been wrong.

 

[yotetrapper]

Here ya go pouletsdecajun you can even hunt them in YOUR state. This is your state's waterfowl hunting regulations. Go page twelve to find out daily bag limits for Canadian geese in Texas.

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/publications/pwdpubs/media/pwd_bk_k0700_1014.pdf

 

[Poulets De Cajun]

Yes I get the hunting license part....

 

[countrybum]

I am still hatching and raising mine. I did not take the egg from a nest, I just removed it from out in the open.

My duck eggs and 1 Canadian goose egg.


No arguing. Canadian geese are a seasonal animal just as many are. You are just not supposed to or allowed to hunt during breeding season. Same goes for coyote, deer, rabbits, etc.

Either you rescue the baby or you leave the baby, you raise baby or you give it to wildlife rescue. Which your wildlife rescue would probably just kill it as they do baby bunnies and injured birds and so many other animals they do not want to spend time on. I would have first looked for mom and if she was no where around, I would take baby in. If baby grows up and flies away, so be it. If it stays around, she as all the rest, would be fed 2xs a day and have the lake to swim in.

 

[JStark]

Countrybum, I do not disagree at all with your decision. I did want to point out, however, that cajun dude is right in stating that handling these without the proper permits is illegal. I also wanted to point out that neither decision is the ethically clear one to make.

It's difficult.

 

[countrybum]

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You are right. What is ethical? Ethical is actually whatever the person makes it out to be. I have had 50+ geese on my 2 1/2 acre lake at one time. If the come before baby is grown, hopefully he will join them. If not, he is more than welcome to stay with the other one that is here year round. Once the find the easy access food, it is all over. They happened to find my ducks feed bowl that is near the lake. Maybe the one here year round is the opposite of the egg and they will pair up. That would be nice. I feel for the lonely goose having to hang out with the midget ducks for companionship.

 

[CityChicker]

Won't it be funny if it turns out to to be something all together different? It could be something someone dumped after Easter. Who knows.

At my house, Canada Geese are the bane of our existence. They haven't been *too* bad this year, but we are frequently overrun with them. There have been times I can't even get in my driveway cause there will be like a hundred of them in the front yard. Their poop gets everywhere! Argh! We have to drive through it, it gets on the tires of the cars and gets tracked in the garage. It is a mess. I still love watching them though.