Why did I come to this thread to post a question. The first thing I see is baby geese. It is a good thing geese have a defined breeding period or I would be in big trouble.
Anyway, I went out and let my three out to graze while I finished my chores so I could go to the store and get dog food to mix with the dry food my dogs eat. I know, getting dog food to mix with dog food...what since does that make? I am doing my chores and hear Sting (my gander) honking, turn to look and there he is flying over the fence into the Cayuga pen and going after the Cayugas. I am shouting NO!!! He is chasing ducks with his neck fully extended, ducks are quacking and running and flying...it is BEDLAM. I run around to the back of the pens, open the gate and herd the ducks out into the field. The ducks run and fly all over the place. Sting runs out and to his girls to protect them and at least I can now herd the geese back into their pen. Then I have to gather up 16 Cayuga ducks and herd them back into their pen.
Of course, now Sting, Pauline and Lydia want to go out to graze and I am telling them they are in a time out because they can't behave themselves...do you suppose they even remotely understood?
WHY DO GEESE HATE DUCKS??????? The Blue Swedish drake that we had to get rid of because he fought the Khaki drake so ferociously used to run back and forth along the fence line and taunt Sting so maybe that is why. But Sting needs to lay off my Cayugas or he is going to find a screen over the top of his pen. Big threat there.
BYC need a smiley face of me falling over in exhaustion.
Anyway, I went out and let my three out to graze while I finished my chores so I could go to the store and get dog food to mix with the dry food my dogs eat. I know, getting dog food to mix with dog food...what since does that make? I am doing my chores and hear Sting (my gander) honking, turn to look and there he is flying over the fence into the Cayuga pen and going after the Cayugas. I am shouting NO!!! He is chasing ducks with his neck fully extended, ducks are quacking and running and flying...it is BEDLAM. I run around to the back of the pens, open the gate and herd the ducks out into the field. The ducks run and fly all over the place. Sting runs out and to his girls to protect them and at least I can now herd the geese back into their pen. Then I have to gather up 16 Cayuga ducks and herd them back into their pen.
Of course, now Sting, Pauline and Lydia want to go out to graze and I am telling them they are in a time out because they can't behave themselves...do you suppose they even remotely understood?
WHY DO GEESE HATE DUCKS??????? The Blue Swedish drake that we had to get rid of because he fought the Khaki drake so ferociously used to run back and forth along the fence line and taunt Sting so maybe that is why. But Sting needs to lay off my Cayugas or he is going to find a screen over the top of his pen. Big threat there.
BYC need a smiley face of me falling over in exhaustion.
I feel like geese and ducks have an unspoken agreement that they will never get along. Just like owls and crows, no one really knows why..!! That sounds like such trouble! Silly geese.
