Feathers

[Miss Lydia]

It's one goose doing it, he's ripped one out today and there was blood everywhere.
They have grass, feed,various kinds of lettuce, cabbage of four different varieties, sweet corn, potato, water melon
Etc etc...they have no time to be bored as they don't stop eating hahaha!
They have mirrors and chains danger by down to play with.
They have three bowls of water that gets changed three times a day I clean they're run and bedding daily (probably too often)
Abd they have company from 5am till 10pm. Outside their run is our garden with grass and theyreclet out twice a day,
outside our garden they Are taken out to a real nice piece of lush countryside.
They've settled down a lot but one bullies the other two by pulling out their first proper feathers and eats them.
We close their hut at 10pm but last night there was he'll of a commotion that we came down to see, at 2am, I think it was either
him bullying the others or a cat or Fox trying to get in. We don't have any other creatures here.
If they're bored it's only at night time when closed up . How do I overcome this boredom if it is a night time?

Do you have lights where you keep them? if you do try pitch dark and see if that helps.I just found out that my 2 goslings love dried meal worms it's loaded in protein and maybe if you get some for them the feather pulling and eating will stop. feathers are protein so this one maybe after protein. Oh and I hope you checked over their pen and house to make sure it's secure because if it was a pred they won't give up.

 

[livininbrazil]

It's one goose doing it, he's ripped one out today and there was blood everywhere.
They have grass, feed,various kinds of lettuce, cabbage of four different varieties, sweet corn, potato, water melon
Etc etc...they have no time to be bored as they don't stop eating hahaha!
They have mirrors and chains danger by down to play with.
They have three bowls of water that gets changed three times a day I clean they're run and bedding daily (probably too often)
Abd they have company from 5am till 10pm. Outside their run is our garden with grass and theyreclet out twice a day,
outside our garden they Are taken out to a real nice piece of lush countryside.
They've settled down a lot but one bullies the other two by pulling out their first proper feathers and eats them.
We close their hut at 10pm but last night there was he'll of a commotion that we came down to see, at 2am, I think it was either
him bullying the others or a cat or Fox trying to get in. We don't have any other creatures here.
If they're bored it's only at night time when closed up . How do I overcome this boredom if it is a night time?

Does the feather-pulling only happen at night? If so, you could divide a small area for the guilty party to sleep in right next to the others so he won´t get stressed, but with small-gauge wire mesh so he can´t reach them enough to pull out the feathers. Might work. ?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Does the feather-pulling only happen at night? If so, you could divide a small area for the guilty party to sleep in right next to the others so he won´t get stressed, but with small-guage wire mesh so he can´t reach them enough to pull out the feathers. Might work. ?

I just had the same idea livin in the other thread by this OP.

 

[livininbrazil]

I just had the same idea livin in the other thread by this OP.

The saying "can´t live with 'em, can´t live without 'em" comes to mind... geese don´t like to be apart, but then they´ll squabble when together...just need space.

 

[Miss Lydia]

The saying "can´t live with 'em, can´t live without 'em" comes to mind... geese don´t like to be apart, but then they´ll squabble when together...just need space.

So true.