How do you deal with aggression?

[Carrosaur]

I've read the sticky about aggressive geese, of course. But I'm wondering how you all deal with your aggressive geese. (If you have any).

Kiwi wasn't hand raised and so he sometimes challenges me, but after a week or two of him learning I never was scared of him or I was not going to be pushed around, he quit. He hasn't tried to bite me or charge me once, although he charges right up to my little brother and my mom. But they harass him and his wife while she's sitting and pretend that the geese like being "talked tp" by strangers. I have never corrected him when he goes after them. I DID correct him once when he charged my boyfriend and hung onto his pants! LOL!

What I do is corner him very fast and pick him up like a football with one arm and hold his neck just under his head with my free hand.

He HATES being picked up also, and he knows whenever he is nasty he will be picked up and carried around for ten minutes if not more.

 

[Miss Lydia]

First of all I try real hard to understand that this is a natural behavior from geese during breeding season but I won't tolerate My ganders biting me, so first sign of aggression I try to back them down if that doesn't work [ it usually works on Babe] Then Sam gets straddled and held down for a few min while I hold his neck to keep him from turning around and biting me. When I let him up if he comes at me again we go through it again, usually 2X he gets the message. I do pick him up also to prove I am bigger than him.
He really is a big baby but he is very protective of his family and I respect that but not to the point of biting the hand that feeds them.

 

[Carrosaur]

First of all I try real hard to understand that this is a natural behavior from geese during breeding season but I won't tolerate My ganders biting me, so first sign of aggression I try to back them down if that doesn't work [ it usually works on Babe] Then Sam gets straddled and held down for a few min while I hold his neck to keep him from turning around and biting me. When I let him up if he comes at me again we go through it again, usually 2X he gets the message. I do pick him up also to prove I am bigger than him.
He really is a big baby but he is very protective of his family and I respect that but not to the point of biting the hand that feeds them.

Do you correct him around strangers? I never let kids near his pin alone and I NEVER allow kids inside his pin. So if a kid did go over and taunt him he probably deserved to be bit.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Do you correct him around strangers? I never let kids near his pin alone and I NEVER allow kids inside his pin. So if a kid did go over and taunt him he probably deserved to be bit.

I feel the same way, no one goes into their area unless I am with them, I taught my grand kids to be very calm and non confrontational towards the geese but they came after breeding season, no way would they be able to go in there now. Not alone. I haven't had to correct them around strangers since strangers don't go inside their area.

 

[Carrosaur]

I feel the same way, no one goes into their area unless I am with them, I taught my grand kids to be very calm and non confrontational towards the geese but they came after breeding season, no way would they be able to go in there now. Not alone. I haven't had to correct them around strangers since strangers don't go inside their area.

My boyfriend always wants to taunt them because he thinks it's funny when they get upset. ):< it makes me so mad! Anyone who wants to mess with a goose deserves to be bitten.

 

[Miss Lydia]

My boyfriend always wants to taunt them because he thinks it's funny when they get upset. ):< it makes me so mad! Anyone who wants to mess with a goose deserves to be bitten.

Hold boyfriend down on the ground with hand on back of neck for at least 5-10 min, that should teach him not to mess with your geese. Geese have great memories they don't forget the ones who haven't been nice to them.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I get this alot.

 

[Carrosaur]

I get this alot.

Haha silly goose! Whenever I see Kiwi lower his head out of the corner of my eye, I turn around real fast and say HEY and he runs away. scardey goose