kid friendly geese??

[monster1]

which breeds are good around kids? i know the buff, pilgrim and tuffed roman are good breeds around kids. how about the toulouse?

 

[debilorrah]

Any goose I have ever come in contact with had a great need to try to take off my nose.

 

[jackiedon]

My toulouse chases anyone or anything that enters the yard except for DH and I. But I love them and they are so pretty.

jackie

 

[lovinthechickens]

In all of my experiences, geese are evil little buggers

But very pretty

 

[lowcountrypoultry]

NONE!!!

Just Kidding.

I don't think its much on the breed but the personality of the goose itself.

 

[rebecca10782]

Even females are mean? When we picked up our babies, the woman had to get in between us and the males so they wouldn't take us down

 

[feathersgalore]

My sebastopols are very friendly. I've never had a problem with them around anyone.

 

[MissPrissy]

Geese are what you make them. Seriously. The geese I hatched imprinted on me. My kids are always around when I feed and care for them or go out to visit. The geese do not like my 10 yr old DD. They do try to nip my 2 yr old DS if I turn my back on them. Geese pick their human. You don't pick the goose.

For the most part though if you hatch your own goslings, have the child feed and tend them daily under your supervision, the geese will accept them into their flock. I find my sebbies to be the sweetest. My barnyard toulouse and giant dewlap toulouse are next in temperment. I had some others with Africans in them and they were just mean. My embdens aren't real friendly either.

 

[NewChickenMom]

i third the sebbies. sweetest birds on the farm. i've had many visitors with small children and they all can walk right up to them and i've had no problems. the only thing they bite is the cats/dogs.

 

[KKluckers]

Very true MissPrissy. I have a Buff American and he is the sweetest thing to me and my son. My son knows not to go into his pen without me. I dont know what Mr. Goose would do if I wasn't there.