Goose and duck killed chicken

[Ansurr]

So I actually heard this story just the other day at work, but apparently at the Berea College Greenhouse some years back, they would have one chicken show up dead every single day. A few days of this go by, and a student worker walks into the chicken house. I'm sure much to their surprise, the goose they kept with the chickens was holding a chicken's head down in their water dish with his wings! He was drowning one chicken every day until they killed him. Every time I think about it I don't know whether to laugh or feel profoundly disturbed.

 

[Miss Lydia]

So I actually heard this story just the other day at work, but apparently at the Berea College Greenhouse some years back, they would have one chicken show up dead every single day. A few days of this go by, and a student worker walks into the chicken house. I'm sure much to their surprise, the goose they kept with the chickens was holding a chicken's head down in their water dish with his wings! He was drowning one chicken every day until they killed him. Every time I think about it I don't know whether to laugh or feel profoundly disturbed.

I can believe a goose would kill a chicken just not sure about the method used here.

 

[RURU]

My half grown 2 goslings were playing in the man made pond we have by the house. I went out later and one of the goslings had been drowned. I was not sure who did it but it was my grey female gosling. Then later went out and see this one Chinese gander trying to drowned the other gosling which was a gander. He was actually putting his head in the water and trying to drowned him. NO he was not on him or trying to breed him. He must have done the same to the female.
This Chinese gander was a very very mean gander. We place him A.S.A.P.

 

[servpolice]

Geese wouldent drown chickens either would ducks and goose would hardly kill chickens maybe bantems and my geese and xhickens always fight and there aint a problem there besides my rooster and ganders fight 24/7

 

[livininbrazil]

Geese wouldent drown chickens either would ducks and goose would hardly kill chickens maybe bantems and my geese and xhickens always fight and there aint a problem there besides my rooster and ganders fight 24/7

Interesting thread. I have geese, muscovies and chickens all together, but I´ve never seen any of them attempt to drown anything except for lettuce! But they have agood bit of space. Serv also has plenty of space. maybe it´s also a territory thing, ganders getting stressed over lack of their own space?

 

[RURU]

I have 8 acres and they free range so what was that Chinese gander's problem. He was a very nasty mean gander all the time. The two were my Sebastopol babies almost full grown and he was mean to them out of the water as well... I will not make excuses for that gander because he was just down right a nasty mean gander!

 

[livininbrazil]

I have 8 acres and they free range so what was that Chinese gander's problem. He was a very nasty mean gander all the time. The two were my Sebastopol babies almost full grown and he was mean to them out of the water as well... I will not make excuses for that gander because he was just down right a nasty mean gander!

Ruru, I´m not trying to excuse them, I´m trying to find a reason for it....so maybe that´s just it, then, depends if the gander is a mean one...I wonder if certain breeds have more occurences of this sort of thing happening...? And your gander killed one almost full-grown? That´s terrible, how upsetting! So, it was a chinese. Was it hand-reared or reared by its parents? All these things could have a bearing on this happening...

 

[RURU]

Ruru, I´m not trying to excuse them, I´m trying to find a reason for it....so maybe that´s just it, then, depends if the gander is a mean one...I wonder if certain breeds have more occurences of this sort of thing happening...? And your gander killed one almost full-grown? That´s terrible, how upsetting! So, it was a chinese. Was it hand-reared or reared by its parents? All these things could have a bearing on this happening...

I raised that gander in my bathroom for 2-3 weeks. I picked him up and played with him showed him love and everything. So the truth is he was just a mean nasty gander. I have the Sebastopol breed and I get some ganders fighting but they have not killed another gander yet. Did some serious plucking of feathers but that is it and I have had sebs for 7 years now.

I take my time with each gosling(s) I raise to make sure they know people and have a very loving start. If the personality on a gander is too aggressive and they fight a lot I place them in another home and tell the people about the personality. I find that some gander(s) are just nasty dispositioned. I want a more laid back gander that is a good breeding male but has a good disposition.

 

[servpolice]

Ruru do sebe geese fight coz i never saw their wings and in my head when i think what their wings look like its no wing feathers but just frizzy ?! Just for interest :-/

 

[RURU]

Ruru do sebe geese fight coz i never saw their wings and in my head when i think what their wings look like its no wing feathers but just frizzy ?! Just for interest :-/

Yes they do fight serv at breeding time. They get possessive of their female and guard them and chase off the other gander's and then flap their wings and trumpet how good they did.. Plus they grab on the back right down below the neck and hang on and pull the feather's out.

Here is what their wings look like.