I've been kind of thinking about getting a couple of geese, partly because I've heard they're good lawnmowers, partly because I'd like a guard animal but don't want a dog, and partly because we used to have them when I was a kid and I always liked them then. Unfortunately, though, I'm not sure we've really got the right setup to have geese. We already have 7 chickens (including 1 rooster). Do geese and chickens get on OK? The chickens free range all day, over our entire 1 acre property, so they'd be sharing territory unless we started fencing off areas. We also have a swimming pool - presumably the geese would be straight in that, right? Are geese louder than roosters? And how would geese react to people staying with us? Would they chase them off the property...?
Thanks for any advice/sanity checks you can provide, before I go ahead and do something stupid...
Thanks for any advice/sanity checks you can provide, before I go ahead and do something stupid...