Honky Is In Love With Himself...WHAT DID I DO?????

[Chaneys Ranch]

This is good because geese are very social and get lonely without their own kind around, sometimes. So, he feels he has a companion now and all is right in the world with him.

What duck is your avatar? I have an unknown that hatched with my Perkin eggs. Very similar markings but darker. I have been researching and appears to be a black American duck.
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/American_Black_Duck/id
We have a pond that wild ducks visit. Wondering if my oldest Perkin hen found a new love

or a one time fling..

 

[MrsDolittleDuck]

Is Honky looking in the mirror so much showing me that he is lonely?

 

[MrsDolittleDuck]

Thanks Everyone.
Love hearing y'all feedback. It is appreciated. I feel like I am doing the right thing for my crazy goose.

 

[desertdarlene]

What duck is your avatar? I have an unknown that hatched with my Perkin eggs. Very similar markings but darker. I have been researching and appears to be a black American duck.
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/American_Black_Duck/id
We have a pond that wild ducks visit. Wondering if my oldest Perkin hen found a new love

or a one time fling..

That is a Pekin-mallard cross, I think. Her name was Cinnamon.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

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Thanks so much! Mystery solved, there was several mallards here in july.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Is Honky looking in the mirror so much showing me that he is lonely?

the mirror gave him a Friend. You did a great morale booster for him!

 

[Frank Phinster]

Caged birds, parrots for example, can develop disturbed social behaviour when provided with a mirror that fakes a companion.
A goose, also a highly social bird could develop similar problems. That it spends a lot of time in front of that mirror instead of grazing in the backyard might be a sign that it is lonely. Another goose as a companion would definetely more appropiate than the reflection in a mirror...

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Heres the hen/goose picture I promised. I will get more tomorrow to show faces, they were too busy chowing on FF to let me get their adorable faces.

 

[livininbrazil]

Is Honky looking in the mirror so much showing me that he is lonely?

I had a little gosling to rear, so I put a mirror in with it as it beat up the ducklings that I tried! It loved its mirror. About a week later I had another little gosling to rear, so I put the two together. The first one forgot the mirror, loved the new gosling, even though it was so much younger and looked nothing like the reflection...seems they need their own sort, a bit like us! If you got a female for him, he´d probably stay out a lot on the grassy area with her, there wouldn´t be much poop around the house. And the grass would look even better! Any eggs could be taken away so as not to increase the number. He´d be a lot happier, I´m sure about that. If you´re adamant about having him alone, maybe put his mirror out on the grass, then he´d stay out there with it, probably eating the grass with his friend.