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I checked on them again and they look like this,so I'm assuming they are getting acquainted ok?
DobieLover said:
If he's leaving them alone, he can stay. In several weeks when they approach point of lay, he'll start mounting them before they are ready and there will be feather pulling and screaming. If it gets out of hand, have a place ready to move him to.
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Ewehnes said:
I checked on them again and they look like this,so I'm assuming they are getting acquainted ok?
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He seems to be a good boy! Hopefully, he'll wait for them to be ready. He's not terrorizing them and that's great.
 
Hey! Glad you found your way here...any questions you have you can message me on here or there are many threads to ask questions, I am not experienced in gease, but very much in chickens (: let me give you a heads up though, you should encourage your kids to handle the geese as much as possible while they're babies, other wise they will turn out just as mean as any rooster (weather male or female) also if you give your rooster a chance to adjust and learn where his hens andfood source is, then, after awhile you can let him free range and he won't go anywhere. If you plan on getting more chicks in the future, I suggest silkies they are extremely docile, although they dont lay as many eggs as a normal hen. Hope I helped!
 
Ella2710 said:
Hey! Glad you found your way here...any questions you have you can message me on here or there are many threads to ask questions, I am not experienced in gease, but very much in chickens :) let me give you a heads up though, you should encourage your kids to handle the geese as much as possible while they're babies, other wise they will turn out just as mean as any rooster (weather male or female) also if you give your rooster a chance to adjust and learn where his hens andfood source is, then, after awhile you can let him free range and he won't go anywhere. If you plan on getting more chicks in the future, I suggest silkies they are extremely docile, although they dont lay as many eggs as a normal hen. Hope I helped!
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Do you have any roosting suggestions? Our chickens won't get up there and our rooster goes up the nesting boxes which I don't care for lol
 

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Ewehnes said:
Do you have any roosting suggestions? Our chickens won't get up there and our rooster goes up the nesting boxes which I don't care for lol
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I would put the roosts you have at less of a vertical angle and put more bars on it...I would also put it right next to the nesting boxes to encourage them to go on it (or next to wherever they sleep the most)
 
Ewehnes said:
Do you have any roosting suggestions? Our chickens won't get up there and our rooster goes up the nesting boxes which I don't care for lol
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That is ladder is very steep.
I would install horizontal perches at least 1' from the walls and about 30" off the ground. Heavier body birds may need a ramp to access that height.
A quick look at the pictures of your coop make me wonder about your ventilation. I don't really see any and that is a good sized flock. You might want to consider adding (a lot) of ventilation. Or maybe it's there and I just can't see it.
 

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