Geese & Chickens - Can they live together?

[Kelpie]

My sebs live with my chickens and everyone does fine, they will eat the eggs if they can reach them though.

 

[toletiquesbysam]

At what age would you allow the geese to free range? My Sebbies are 6weeks old, they have been in the run enjoying outside life for a week or so now but I think they are too young yet to free range. When will I know?

 

[banter]

If they have parents they will do fine, if not I would wait until they're at least 3 months old and feathered, unless your outside with them. I get my babies out on grass as soon as possible when the weather is good.

 

[kmclay]

Guess you got good answers, but I'll put my two cents in anyway.

We have 15 chickens and 6 geese and 2 turkeys. They free range all day and sleep together in a coop at night, and everybody gets along just fine.

 

[jenni1]

i wondered the same thing, what about just keeping my 2 baby geese in a large cage with my baby chicks just until everyone is big enough to go on the ground, i assume they eat the same starter and grower.

 

[chickensducks&agoose]

my chinese gander drowned my chickens too. I'd keep them separate... or at least where the chickens could get away.

 

[Frosty]

I don't keep baby waterfowl with chicks simply because waterfowl are slobs and get water everywhere. I don't keep them together as adults because of the drowning risk. Even if the waterfowl don't hold them under, chickens can drown in a pool.

 

[thekla]

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I just got 2 baby geese to raise with my chickens and the feed store said to use the flock raiser rather than the chick starter since the baby chicks are a month old and the geese 2 days, something about the geese needing 20%??? (protien?) so you might check on that, I give my hens the layer pellets and will have to ask about that when they get older...as to putting them together, so far my 18 chicks think that I put 2 scary monsters in their brooder...LOL, hopefully they will be friends soon.

 

[fancbrd4me02]

My geese are above socializing with chickens. lol

But seriously, I wouldn't house geese with chickens.

 

[danielle82]

Mine live together. They do fine, one of the chickens tails got chewed off due to the gander, but the rest are fine. I had originally planned on letting the geese in the coop under the roosts, but my husband didn't install a poop board....so I didn't want my geese getting pooped on from above, so I built them their own 3.5 sided shelter, but they they still choose to go in with chickens sometimes.