Help understanding flock behavior

[NwChickOwner]

Two years ago we got a buff goose, pilgrim goose, and pilgrim gander. Last year, the pilgrim pair hatched a gosling. The trio raised him together with the pilgrim goose taking the lead and the other helping. This year, we hoped that two pairs would happen but the older pilgrim gander has now started attacking his now almost year old gosling/gander. The young gander is now left alone all day.
We have a separate flock of Sebastopols. We are considering making a bachelor flock but they are almost all a year or older. We don’t know anyone with a lonely goose to let him go with. At this point if we brought a female in for him, would the older gander just steal her and continue to attack him? Any advice would be appreciated!

 

[Goosebaby]

Two years ago we got a buff goose, pilgrim goose, and pilgrim gander. Last year, the pilgrim pair hatched a gosling. The trio raised him together with the pilgrim goose taking the lead and the other helping. This year, we hoped that two pairs would happen but the older pilgrim gander has now started attacking his now almost year old gosling/gander. The young gander is now left alone all day.
We have a separate flock of Sebastopols. We are considering making a bachelor flock but they are almost all a year or older. We don’t know anyone with a lonely goose to let him go with. At this point if we brought a female in for him, would the older gander just steal her and continue to attack him? Any advice would be appreciated!

Ganders tend to prefer one to two females, sometimes three or even up to eight females, but from what I’ve seen ganders tend to be closely bonded with one female with another as his side piece, and will potentially breed with a third but will generally treat her as a nuisance.

Ganders can and do form extremely tight and wonderful bonds with other ganders so it’s not that bad of an idea sending him into the bro colony, sometimes it can take awhile for ganders to accept each other, spring isn’t the best time to introduce them because their hormones make them pea brained, so be prepared for it to take some time and prepare for the likely possibility that you may need to break up fights multiple times a day.

The major drawback with gander bonded pairs is they feed off of each others energy during breeding season, females can egg ganders on really bad, but female geese don’t usually enter the fight like ganders will, so fights between a bonded pair of ganders vs a third gander can turn deadly as the fight doesn’t end because the bonded pair are feeding off of each other’s aggression towards the third.

 

[NwChickOwner]

Would you attempt to bring in a female for the lone gander or just pull him out of that area?