New feeder training

[Twohandloop]

Hello everybody and thank you for your time. We are adding geese to our farm and recently adopted two goslings. My question is. How hard is it to train the goose to eat out of a DIY goat proof feeder with a PVC wye? Once they have grown they will be sharing a very large fenced-in property with several goats. They are Chinese browns if that makes a difference.

 

[Helloworld]

When they get hungry they will come.
I place food where they stay at night and they watch other geese/animals for feed location. Goat food they probably won’t eat.

Also can’t swallow food without water. So they tend to want food close to it. Hope this helps! Good luck

 

[N ID Goose mom]

Do you have pictures of the type of feeder you are thinking of? We have ground squirrels who get into everything. I going to use a rat proof feeder for my geese.



I got the board addition that’s made for geese and turkeys. My geese are only 6 days old so we haven’t tried it yet. I don’t know if something like this would help with the goats as well as ground squirrels. Our goats are in a different field so I don’t have to worry about the geese food.

 

[Twohandloop]

This is the type of feeder I want to put in right next to their Pond for swimming. My concern is not them eating the goat food but the goats eating the goose food.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

Hi! Your goats must be nicer than mine! My goat love to chase everything including birds and head butt them! lol.

 

[N ID Goose mom]

This is the type of feeder I want to put in right next to their Pond for swimming. My concern is not them eating the goat food but the goats eating the goose food.

Goose bill/ heads are smaller than a goats muzzle. I wonder if you put a smaller diameter pipe at the entrance or cover with 2x2 netting if this would help. That way the geese can reach in but a goat would have more trouble.

 

[Twohandloop]

Hi! Your goats must be nicer than mine! My goat love to chase everything including birds and head butt them! lol.

Mine are very good with the birds they let the chickens even sit on them and peck at them from time to time.

 

[Twohandloop]

Goose bill/ heads are smaller than a goats muzzle. I wonder if you put a smaller diameter pipe at the entrance or cover with 2x2 netting if this would help. That way the geese can reach in but a goat would have more trouble.

I figured since I had small breed goats with short muzzles I could also extend the pipe out a little bit and the Goose's neck would be long enough to get the food that I have available for them.

 

[N ID Goose mom]

I figured since I had small breed goats with short muzzles I could also extend the pipe out a little bit and the Goose's neck would be long enough to get the food that I have available for them.

Extending the pipe might work to keep the “starving” goats out. Ours always act like they are starving and need their grain even though they are not keeping up with their own field and we had to put the steers in with them to mow.

If there is a lot of grass available they might not eat while at the pond. Are they housed separate at night? If so you could offer the goose food in their shelter and then only grass when grazing at the pond.

 

[Twohandloop]

Extending the pipe might work to keep the “starving” goats out. Ours always act like they are starving and need their grain even though they are not keeping up with their own field and we had to put the steers in with them to mow.

If there is a lot of grass available they might not eat while at the pond. Are they housed separate at night? If so you could offer the goose food in their shelter and then only grass when grazing at the pond.

Right now they are separated but once they do have access to their little pond it will be on the part of the property that the goats have access to. Currently there are three shelters on the property and the goats don't always use them they tend to like to stay out unless it's raining. We are toying with the idea of giving the geese their own little spot may be raised up with a smaller ramp that the goats would not want to get in. They still have a few weeks of growing till I want to put them out.