Good day to you all!
Yesterday I went to some kind of Sunday market in my country where they had pretty much everything from live animals to furniture, electronics, foods, you get the idea. In the whole market I only saw 2 geese sold by some old man and they looked terrible, feet were bound really harsh, flight feathers cut off and overall looked quite dirty, like they hadn't seen water in quite some time. When I went and asked about them, found out he had 1 more which he prompty grabbed by the neck and threw down next to the others. Feeling quite disgusted and outraged by the whole ordeal at this point, but I kept my cool, bought all 3 of them and took them home.
Now a bit of backstory, this spring I got ducks and geese for the first time ever. They were all 1 day olds, 4 grey geese, 2 Toulouse and 12 Pekin ducks.
Both Toulouse died suddenly after 1 or 2 weeks, I blamed the fact that I fed them chicken starter that had coccidiostatic in it, didn't know for sure but I stopped giving them that, the rest were fine. A duckling drowned in their pool around the same age, altough it wasn't deep at all and I spent a lot of time around to make sure they can easily get out, my guess is he took too long and got hypothermia so his muscles locked.
Fast forward almost 2 months and I'm the happy owner of 4 grey geese and 11 ducks that are really friendly and easily follow me when I call for them.
I let them free range in my yard the whole day everyday, the geese are the lead and the ducks follow them everywhere, whenever a duck gets lost it starts making a lot of noise and the geese would return for them.
And now I've brought these 3 new geese here, I believe they're a few months old, white, blue eyes, things of beauty. I put them in their enclosure and they struggled and bit me the whole time. I was very gentle and and did everything slow, didn't flinch when they bit or anything. They don't really interact with the other geese or ducks, I noticed they avoid eachother, the 3 new geese picked a corner and just lay there, they also barely touch the water and feed. Whenever I get close to their enclosure, as soon as they see me, be it even from 30-40 meters, they get agitated and go the opposite way of me. They're really scared of humans in general.
Right now it's morning and I let the geese and ducks out to graze but those 3 ain't having it, they just stay in their corner.
How should I proceed further? They sure do look traumatised.
Yesterday I went to some kind of Sunday market in my country where they had pretty much everything from live animals to furniture, electronics, foods, you get the idea. In the whole market I only saw 2 geese sold by some old man and they looked terrible, feet were bound really harsh, flight feathers cut off and overall looked quite dirty, like they hadn't seen water in quite some time. When I went and asked about them, found out he had 1 more which he prompty grabbed by the neck and threw down next to the others. Feeling quite disgusted and outraged by the whole ordeal at this point, but I kept my cool, bought all 3 of them and took them home.
Now a bit of backstory, this spring I got ducks and geese for the first time ever. They were all 1 day olds, 4 grey geese, 2 Toulouse and 12 Pekin ducks.
Both Toulouse died suddenly after 1 or 2 weeks, I blamed the fact that I fed them chicken starter that had coccidiostatic in it, didn't know for sure but I stopped giving them that, the rest were fine. A duckling drowned in their pool around the same age, altough it wasn't deep at all and I spent a lot of time around to make sure they can easily get out, my guess is he took too long and got hypothermia so his muscles locked.
Fast forward almost 2 months and I'm the happy owner of 4 grey geese and 11 ducks that are really friendly and easily follow me when I call for them.
I let them free range in my yard the whole day everyday, the geese are the lead and the ducks follow them everywhere, whenever a duck gets lost it starts making a lot of noise and the geese would return for them.
And now I've brought these 3 new geese here, I believe they're a few months old, white, blue eyes, things of beauty. I put them in their enclosure and they struggled and bit me the whole time. I was very gentle and and did everything slow, didn't flinch when they bit or anything. They don't really interact with the other geese or ducks, I noticed they avoid eachother, the 3 new geese picked a corner and just lay there, they also barely touch the water and feed. Whenever I get close to their enclosure, as soon as they see me, be it even from 30-40 meters, they get agitated and go the opposite way of me. They're really scared of humans in general.
Right now it's morning and I let the geese and ducks out to graze but those 3 ain't having it, they just stay in their corner.
How should I proceed further? They sure do look traumatised.
They have been traumatized , and you have rescued them from that. I congratulate you. Be patient. They will adapt and come to trust you, but it will take time. Again I applaud you for rescuing them. 
