Rescue gander will he fit in?

[Goosebaby]

Sounds like my setup, 6 acres on the mountainside, lots of trees. It’s too expensive to fence the whole place which is a shame because coyotes have been an issue in the past.
I have two dogs full time, three when my brothers dog is here which has kept my yard decently safe, although I just found out my boerboel will happily sacrifice me to the rustling leaf monster at night just to save himself so I guess I’ve only got Bubbles the golden retriever mix to protect me.

 

[Goosebaby]

I take it back, she’s afraid of the dark too so I guess all I’ve got is the cat.

I did see him chase a fox out of the yard once so I guess it’s not a total loss.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Well my watch dogs are mini Dachshunds so you know how much help they’d be! Actually they’d sacrifice themselves for the flock but not intentionally.

 

[Phillyndilly]

Nope all woods and we’re retired so stamina and finances kind of keep us from doing more but I only have 2 geese so there is plenty of room for them and their family of chickens and ducks!

Yes that’s how ours is all woods yes that’s plenty of room for just the two.
So here are pancake and waffles. I introduced them in the fenced yard and put a baby gate where the open part is. Well pancake and waffles are terrified of people so within ten minutes they hopped over even though I was watching them. It was a good intro with Bruce side note.
Anyway they do not walk fast and do a shuffle when they want to get away like all of my others they RUN at full speed and flap/ fly combo. Holy hell.
I have cuts all over from diving in brush and trying to herd them back almost had a damn asthma attack.
Good news they like Bruce. I’m sitting outside and actively keeping them away from the rest. Even though Luce doesn’t care about them too much. Also him and Bruce had two fights today Bruce challenges him still but he lost both times poor Bruce I was cheering him on.
Philip just ran after Pancake and bit her wing she seems submissive and Philip likes to put anyone in their place that he thinks he can get over on.
I’m on the fence about waffle being a girl although he doesn’t have male behaviors.
He’s trying to climb on top of Bruce right now but it seems like a mating behavior not a fight.
I have no clue what they are doing. Bruce is for sure trying to mate Waffles but why is waffles doing the same behavior? It went on for like 5 minutes then a hawk flew by and that distracted them. I added those pictures.
As you can see the turkeys have to know what’s going on at all times...

 

[Phillyndilly]

Sounds like my setup, 6 acres on the mountainside, lots of trees. It’s too expensive to fence the whole place which is a shame because coyotes have been an issue in the past.
I have two dogs full time, three when my brothers dog is here which has kept my yard decently safe, although I just found out my boerboel will happily sacrifice me to the rustling leaf monster at night just to save himself so I guess I’ve only got Bubbles the golden retriever mix to protect me.

Hahaha were not ready for a dog yet but I’m leaning more and more towards golden retriever this helps that arguement!

Well my watch dogs are mini Dachshunds so you know how much help they’d be! Actually they’d sacrifice themselves for the flock but not intentionally.

Hahha aw you guys are too funny!

 

[Goosebaby]

The girls can get pretty excited and climb on top of each other and on the ganders so there’s still a high likelihood Waffles is a female. “Just yeasterday my female Delphi climbed onto Leo and then onto Parsnip!”
If yours are already trying to breed with each other I’d say it’s a successful pairing! Beautiful girls too!

Golden’s can make excellent farm dogs if you can get through the spaz puppy years, I called my old dog Bear “papa Bear” because he treated the geese like they were his children.
My Boerboel Tuck is just a little over a year old and so far is an excellent farm dog otherwise, he gets along wonderfully with the birds. Boerboels were historically always farm guardians so it’s in his genes I guess.
Some of the new breeding practices with some breeders would make me question getting just any boerboel as a farm dog though. I’m seeing a lot of breeders breeding in other breeds just so that they can get black and grey coats “they can sell for $10,000” and advertising them as attack dogs so I wouldn’t trust dogs from those breeders around my birds or around myself.

This was Tuck at 6 months rummaging with the goslings and hanging out with Bubbles.

 

[Phillyndilly]

Oh my gosh @Goosebaby!!!! Don’t show me that I’ll run out and get one right now. He’s adorable!!! And those goslings . Ya that’s what makes me nervous the breeding and I’m not spending thousands when there’s so many rescues pups included waiting to be saved.
My girl ducks hump eachother all the time it’s embarrassing lol. They have never tried to get on a boy though but they poke at the boys a lot and quack if they want some.
Ya it was definitely mating behavior it was def not fighting Philip tried to chase the girls again and they ran right over to Bruce so that’s a great sign too!
Just observing them they really already act so much different from the males the noises are different and they don’t do the head up scream thing. Waffles is just so big she’s bigger than all the boys Luce and Philip included.
Here’s pancake and her for comparison, but now observing I think she is female. It’s so interesting! I love learning the new behaviors so much!

What do yours like as a favorite treat I’m telling you I must have the pickiest geese alive.
Yes for lettuce, kale they’ll eat but don’t care about, cucumbers ya, green beans I tried today and no one cared. Tomatoes hell no, pears and apples no. Meal worms no for the geese. Carrots no. I want something they go nuts for!

 

[Goosebaby]

Mine are so picky too! You could try cucumbers, melons, blackberries, plums, peaches, and blueberries, my geese seem to agree on liking those to varying degrees.

Some of mine love carrots, others no, all of mine love apples but Thor never did. Some love strawberries, most don’t. Some like peas, others don’t. Mine used to dislike pears but they’ve recently changed their minds after they figured out how to pick them off the tree and somehow that makes them taste better. All like oranges except Parsnip. Apricot loves broccoli, no one else will touch it.
The struggles of being a goose mom.

 

[Goosebaby]

Waffles does look pretty big so I’d wonder if she was a he too, if she’s making girl sounds then more than likely she is a she. I did have a mega sized goose once. Leo’s first daughter Kiwi grew to be as big as he was and he’s big for a gander! So super sized girls are a possibility.

 

[Phillyndilly]

Well it’s good to know all of them are picky lol. I’ll try more fruits when we are into the warmer months. Pancake and waffles are not feeling lettuce either unless they are too scared. Bruce sleep out of the crate with Phil and the two duck girls. Waffles and pancake slept in the crate I kind of want to put Bruce with them but I’m not sure if the crates big enough.
The girls are super attached to Bruce yet he kind of does his own thing he likes Phil. He also walks over to the turkeys a lot. Waffles and pancake tend to run to him if they are afraid.
No sign or male behavior. The boys always run and scream in the morning but the girls didn’t do that. My fiancé thinks pancake and waffles are for sure full grown. The person we got them from was the second owner and only had them a short time. The person she got them from said the geese and chickens were a package deal so I guess she got them and didn’t like them. But she was sure they were girls so maybe that’s because they laid eggs for the first owner.
It’s going good with everyone though. I wish pancake and waffles weren’t so terrified of me though.