Friendlier geese?

[minionek1450]

now if you remember me. i lost all 3 of my geese but i want to buy more. (also some ducks because i have 2 females now) and im wondering how to make geese friendlier or less aggressive? should i only buy females? im not looking to have more geese so i wont be getting ganders also they are aggressive towards everyone in my family. so some of my family members stopped talking to themselves. any tips highly appreciated

 

[Goosebaby]

now if you remember me. i lost all 3 of my geese but i want to buy more. (also some ducks because i have 2 females now) and im wondering how to make geese friendlier or less aggressive? should i only buy females? im not looking to have more geese so i wont be getting ganders also they are aggressive towards everyone in my family. so some of my family members stopped talking to themselves. any tips highly appreciated

Could you elaborate on what you mean by “family members stopped talking to themselves?”

Geese are very social and accept whoever spends a lot of time with them as members of their family, however if there are people that they’re familiar with but who don’t spend as much time with them as others they can associate them with rivals or nuisances invading their territory and possibly even threatening their favorite people.

 

[minionek1450]

by that i mean my mother and my aunt stopped talking because the geese would attack my aunt so they stopped talking but now they talk again

 

[Goosebaby]

If it’s possible you could create a run for the geese so that they can’t interact with visitors.

 

[addctd2plnts]

We live against 3500 of conservation land so there are tons of predators. We use walk in movable pens and move them daily. That way the geese always have fresh grass, but they are protected. Many predators hunt in the day, especially when feeding babies, and they will kill geese. I'd never leave mine loose.

 

[minionek1450]

If it’s possible you could create a run for the geese so that they can’t interact with visitors.

yeah they tried containing my geese by making some wood fences which were movable to enclose them. earlier they also tried containing them with a net tied with string but the geese knew that they could attack the string and they escaped. if i get geese again i will try containing them like earlier

 

[jbiancotheplace]

If you raise them like dogs and constantly hold them, love them as babies and are constantly with them they will be awesome when they are grown

 

[Moments]

now if you remember me. i lost all 3 of my geese but i want to buy more. (also some ducks because i have 2 females now) and im wondering how to make geese friendlier or less aggressive? should i only buy females? im not looking to have more geese so i wont be getting ganders also they are aggressive towards everyone in my family. so some of my family members stopped talking to themselves. any tips highly appreciated

I have an African, she's 9 1/2 months old. Got her at 3 days old. Highly socialized her every day. Lots of hands on and spend time with her every day. This helped ALOT, especially with her breed. We selected African cause they're very loud and known to be guard dogs which is what we needed. I researched and read they can be social if appropriate time is spent with them so that's what she did and she's a doll. She's skeptical of people she doesn't know which is what we wanted but can be bribed if you know what to give her, then she's your friend. When strange cars or UPS comes she goes toward the front yard and stands tall and intimidating looking. As far as a noisy alarm system, so far, she actually gets quiet, so she doesn't draw attention to herself when she's concerned about something. The Runner and Welsh Harlequin we got with her are braver up to this point. She's noisy at times when people come to the house, or the drakes are getting too rowdy but hasn't alarmed about a potential predator, she gets silent (as she did when a racoon came onto the property). She was months younger then though and hasn't had another opportunity to react toward a wild animal yet. She's even scared of our guinea pig so.... She's definitely not that Doberman pincher of geese as the breed is known to be. Could be of how well she's been socialized I dunno. She's also a single goose with a bunch of ducks so not sure if that makes a difference and she's possibly absorbing some of their characteristics when it comes to certain things.

 

[Goosebaby]

I have an African, she's 9 1/2 months old. Got her at 3 days old. Highly socialized her every day. Lots of hands on and spend time with her every day. This helped ALOT, especially with her breed. We selected African cause they're very loud and known to be guard dogs which is what we needed. I researched and read they can be social if appropriate time is spent with them so that's what she did and she's a doll. She's skeptical of people she doesn't know which is what we wanted but can be bribed if you know what to give her, then she's your friend. When strange cars or UPS comes she goes toward the front yard and stands tall and intimidating looking. As far as a noisy alarm system, so far, she actually gets quiet, so she doesn't draw attention to herself when she's concerned about something. The Runner and Welsh Harlequin we got with her are braver up to this point. She's noisy at times when people come to the house, or the drakes are getting too rowdy but hasn't alarmed about a potential predator, she gets silent (as she did when a racoon came onto the property). She was months younger then though and hasn't had another opportunity to react toward a wild animal yet. She's even scared of our guinea pig so.... She's definitely not that Doberman pincher of geese as the breed is known to be. Could be of how well she's been socialized I dunno. She's also a single goose with a bunch of ducks so not sure if that makes a difference and she's possibly absorbing some of their characteristics when it comes to certain things.

Getting quiet when viewing something is completely normal goose behavior and is a critical survival instinct. There isn’t anything you can do to change that and for her sake it’s a good thing. Some geese “depending on personality” will get noisy when they spot an intruder, but that tends to be if they’re viewing a species they’ve become used to and don’t view as a predator, so people they don’t know or non threatening animals. If they’re not used to other people they’ll get quiet annd if they’re used to dogs annd have never had a negative encounter they’ll sometimes get noisy so socialization and experiences do play a role.