Questions about Embden Geese

[Le stylo]

You're kidding! How long was she in there?

Oh about all night! And she didn't make a peep when we were calling her. Like atleast 12-14 hours.

 

[Le stylo]

I love to talk about my geese like they are my little kids. People (like the family we got them from) think of farm animal/poutry as a business or "just animals" but I don't think of them that way at all.
To me they are part of the family, part of our close-nit flock, part of my heart. They not just geese, they have personality, attitude, feelings and favourites. I love them even when Lucy honks in my face and Ricky eats my tassels, and when they seem to walk the one bad direction and yet seems in some ways to act smart and cunning.

Who else here feels that way with animals?

 

[Le stylo]

Oh about all night! And she didn't make a peep when we were calling her. Like atleast 12-14 hours.

Correction, about 24 hours!

 

[AGeese]

Correction, about 24 hours!

Yeah I though it was longer. Happy for you and Lucy

 

[Le stylo]

Yeah I though it was longer. Happy for you and Lucy

Thanks!

 

[Le stylo]

So a few days after we found Lucy, I was going to put them to bed in their goose house and they were BOTH gone! So we started looking, and we live along a river so I tracked one of their foot prints along part of the bank the next morning. 24 hours after they went missing we spotted Ricky standing on a cliff rock next to the rapids! I climbed down and recovered him.
As of now, 48 hours after her disappearance (again) Lucy is missing.

One of my theories is that she either drowned in the rapids, got scooped up by an eagle, or is just “hiding”.

 

[Le stylo]

In some ways I think the first time she went missing was like a test to prepare all of us (including Ricky) for her real disappearance.

So we’re back to the question. Should we wait and hold out hope or move on and try to find a companion for Ricky?
We were thinking (learning from our previous mistakes) to get two more geese (goslings) and maybe a few chickens while we’re at it.

 

[AGeese]

In some ways I think the first time she went missing was like a test to prepare all of us (including Ricky) for her real disappearance.

So we’re back to the question. Should we wait and hold out hope or move on and try to find a companion for Ricky?
We were thinking (learning from our previous mistakes) to get two more geese (goslings) and maybe a few chickens while we’re at it.

That's too bad, I'm sorry. I'm not sure what you should do, are you going to fence them in? It sounds like you'll have the same situation if you get more geese.

 

[Le stylo]

That's too bad, I'm sorry. I'm not sure what you should do, are you going to fence them in? It sounds like you'll have the same situation if you get more geese.

That interesting, I never actually thought about fencing them in. They are completely free roaming. It worked fine until now.

That's too bad, I'm sorry. I'm not sure what you should do, are you going to fence them in? It sounds like you'll have the same situation if you get more geese.

I honestly don’t know what to do. I feel so bad for Ricky, Lucy is/was the “leader” and now he’s just walking aimlessly.
I do think his personality is great (hopefully) for a flock, like a leader/protector. Without Lucy I think Ricky is coming out of his shell of being bossed over, lol.

 

[AGeese]

That interesting, I never actually thought about fencing them in. They are completely free roaming. It worked fine until now.

I honestly don’t know what to do. I feel so bad for Ricky, Lucy is/was the “leader” and now he’s just walking aimlessly.
I do think his personality is great (hopefully) for a flock, like a leader/protector. Without Lucy I think Ricky is coming out of his shell of being bossed over, lol.

I just don't want you to have to go through this again because geese wander. Mine wander, my neighbors geese wander, but there's not too many places they can get lost, they usually just end up at someone else's property. You can get an affordable garden fence. Just get some green stakes, and a roll of plastic mesh, or if you want welded wire.

I am also putting a fence up around 2 acres because I don't want them to keep wandering.