How will adding a female goose affect my rooster?

[JayeB]

I have a small flock consisting of 1 rooster, 11 hens and 3 female ducks. They all get along beautifully. I’m considering adding 1 or 2 female geese, or maybe female turkeys so I can get different kinds of eggs and just for variety. My main totally enclosed coop is about 10x10 with deep litter and an automatic photosensitive door opener. It opens to a large fenced pen (about 80 sqft). The pen includes another coop (whose door is always open) to a 10x15 coop, 2 sides of which are enclosed with chicken wire. I live in Montana. My rooster is a kind, good protector. He is about 1 1/2 years old, and the other hens and ducks were added since then (youngest hens are about 5 months old). With minimal separation all newcomers integrated easily to the flock. Given geese seem to be a more dominant aggressive species, will 2 female geese upset my rooster’s leadership role? I’d really like to add variety, but not if it will disrupt my happy flock. Thoughts? Words of wisdom and experience are appreciated. This is my first flock. Thanks!

 

[JaeG]

Geese are grazers so you need to have a lot of green feed available for them. This is a good informative page about feeding geese: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/feeding-geese.67508/

And please don't get just one goose. Geese need the company of other geese as they are very social creatures who form very strong family bonds, staying together for life (that much I know).

You might need to ask on the Goose forum to find out how chickens will react to having geese introduced to their area.