My Mother Always Told Me Never to Get Between Fighting Dogs...

[Toast n Jelly]

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Wow, this opens up for a whole new field of scientific research!

Instead of throwing, you can try: chucking, hurling, lobbing, thrusting... And if the color purple is wrong, there are many other colors available. It may be that geese are not afraid of soccer balls, but have you tried tennis balls, baseballs, basketballs, or ping pong balls? Or, if it's the whole ball concept that keeps them from breaking up the fight (their instincts might prevent them from perceiving vaguely egg-shaped objects as threats), you have a household full of stuff to try out.

This is How Important Scientific Research is born!

 

[easttxchick]

Myself, I am amazed that yelling "THAT'S ENOUGH" wasn't sufficient to break them up. I guess I shouldn't be shocked, it never works when my drakes are sparring either(just so you know you aren't the only one that thinks yelling at them at the tops of your lungs will end a brawl).

 

[A.T. Hagan]

I have been idly toying with the idea of picking up geese as my next poultry species. These sorts of threads are just the sort of thing I need to convince me to idly toy with the idea still longer.

FWIW breaking up rooster fights is a good way to get a hole in your pants leg and maybe your leg too!

 

[Olive Hill]

A.T. Hagan :

I have been idly toying with the idea of picking up geese as my next poultry species. These sorts of threads are just the sort of thing I need to convince me to idly toy with the idea still longer.

FWIW breaking up rooster fights is a good way to get a hole in your pants leg and maybe your leg too!

I threw a bucket at the last roo fight and that did the trick. If your buckets aren't working perhaps you need a blue one with a gray handle.

 

[toadbriar]

I am disappointed in the lack of pics. Or YouTube links.

But I am glad everyone's okay!

 

[sillysister74]

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Growing up we had a male cat and a male rabbit that were "special friends". I could swear I heard Michael Bolton playing when the door was shut to the bedroom we kept the house rabbit and cat in. To this day it has had me convinced those sort of freaky romances are not just for humans.

 

[CMV]

What a story! Thanks for the laugh.

 

[tdgill]

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Growing up we had a male cat and a male rabbit that were "special friends". I could swear I heard Michael Bolton playing when the door was shut to the bedroom we kept the house rabbit and cat in. To this day it has had me convinced those sort of freaky romances are not just for humans.

nothing freaky about true love....or best friends

 

[dreamcatcherarabians]

A.T. Hagan :

I have been idly toying with the idea of picking up geese as my next poultry species. These sorts of threads are just the sort of thing I need to convince me to idly toy with the idea still longer.

I used to have a pair of geese and I ADORED them. I got them as goslings and taught them how to swim in my jacuzzi bathtub, they loved the jets and spouts. A caveat about that though, it does make snobs out of them. They wanted no part of the cold water in the pond come spring. It took my husband going in swimming with them when it got hot during the summer to get them past the "EWWWWW there's no heat, where's the jets?" attitude. We had a blast tossing them off the end of the pier and watching them practically walk on the water to get back to shore. I would have more geese in a hot second! Actually, I will have more geese in the spring. I still really miss my pair, looks like somebody stole them and my ducks, they just all went missing at once.​

 

[duck walk]

I had a gander fight a few nights ago that I did not witness first hand...when I went out to feed them in the a.m., Herb, the Pomeranian had a bloody nose and spatter all over his front...and Barney, the Brown China who is the head man out there, was strutting his stuff...Herb must have gotten fresh with one of Barney's babes and got his clock cleaned for his advances...he hung out with the ducks for a few days...and maybe he has brain damage as yesterday morning he actually thought he could fly...he was all pumped up, started running and flapping, lifted off just enough to catch his toes on the lip of the kiddie pool and do a face plant in the water...he looked totally baffled...he is back with the ducks...

Drake fights are hilarious...all I have witnessed is chest bumping and pushing...who ever falls over first is the loser...

These ducks and geese are better than tv and movies and the comedy channel...they make me laugh every day...

as for "unusual" friendships, Barbara the black Indian Runner duck is still hanging with Merlin the White China gander...she adores him, complete with chatter and head bobbing...