StarKees
Hatching
- Sep 26, 2015
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We started out with 7 geese and 15 ducks and innumerable chickens. I fell madly in love with our geese and adored the ducks. Aside from the fact that ducks poop at least once within 5 minutes and geese poop twice within 2 milliseconds, they are wonderful pets if for no other reason they make you laugh. The gang of ducks waddle around and allow the geese to be lord and master of their domain; but each goose had a separate personality ... some were smarter than others and "Baby Huey" was as dumb as a post and was very proud to be the stupidest kid in class.
I am now down to one (1) goose and the death of each one of them has not been fun for me. I thought that 3 of them might have been poisoned - we do have fire ants all over our 5 acres but both my husband and helpful next door neighbor SWEAR they hadn't used poison anywhere. Having two of them die in my arms made me such a wreck that I thought I might need to check into a psychiatric ward. One of them probably died of a snake bite?
Many years ago, I recall something on TV or a book or whatever that said "Do NOT feed ducks (presumably geese?) bread when you're near the pond in the park."
OMG! I'd gather my little herd of poultry around me as I treated them with Cheerios ... of course not the flavored kind. Just plain Cheerios. They'd eat out of my hand and even learned to have manners as the next creature got their share. I'd toss the Cheerios out to the ducks and they'd scramble for them. I did this quite often when they were babies to "tame" them. And then, about once every two weeks as "CHEERIOS" time was allotted to them as a special bonding treat.
Did I kill my own pets? Going through your excellent website it suddenly dawned on me that at least two of them might have had an impacted crop. The guilt!! Is there any way to massage the crop area OR make them regurgitate OR whatever?
Needless to say, if Cheerios is the culprit I'll just have to find something else to tame the baby geese we plan to get. But I'd still like to know how to unplug a crop if that's what actually killed them.
A very sad Grandmother Goose
I am now down to one (1) goose and the death of each one of them has not been fun for me. I thought that 3 of them might have been poisoned - we do have fire ants all over our 5 acres but both my husband and helpful next door neighbor SWEAR they hadn't used poison anywhere. Having two of them die in my arms made me such a wreck that I thought I might need to check into a psychiatric ward. One of them probably died of a snake bite?
Many years ago, I recall something on TV or a book or whatever that said "Do NOT feed ducks (presumably geese?) bread when you're near the pond in the park."
OMG! I'd gather my little herd of poultry around me as I treated them with Cheerios ... of course not the flavored kind. Just plain Cheerios. They'd eat out of my hand and even learned to have manners as the next creature got their share. I'd toss the Cheerios out to the ducks and they'd scramble for them. I did this quite often when they were babies to "tame" them. And then, about once every two weeks as "CHEERIOS" time was allotted to them as a special bonding treat.
Did I kill my own pets? Going through your excellent website it suddenly dawned on me that at least two of them might have had an impacted crop. The guilt!! Is there any way to massage the crop area OR make them regurgitate OR whatever?
Needless to say, if Cheerios is the culprit I'll just have to find something else to tame the baby geese we plan to get. But I'd still like to know how to unplug a crop if that's what actually killed them.
A very sad Grandmother Goose
