Should I get a pair of geese to help guard my chickens and ducks

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Hi! I have 2 male pilgrim geese and they saved my chickens life. They were standing over her and biting at the fox that attacked her. If it wasn’t for my geese, my chicken wouldn’t be with me anymore. I highly recommend getting Pilgrim geese. I love mine!!
 
I absolutely LOVE my geese! A local farm store had a brooder full of goslings on a Friday; when I went back in Monday, there were only two babies left. Without thinking about gender AT ALL, I bought the two "leftovers."

I wanted cool knob-headed geese and was a bit disappointed that mine were American Buffs. I have since fallen head over heels. They are pretty docile and even at what I'm sure is full size will let me pick them up and carry them into their shelter when they decide they don't want to go home for the night.

They don't really mess with my chickens or ducks when everyone is free-ranging in the yard. The closest they come is when they inexplicably decide to "herd" the ducks from one side of the yard to the other. There's no violence involved; they just walk up behind the ducks and everyone starts marching.

I am fairly sure that Gussie and Golly will some day be a breeding pair, through no knowledge or planning on my part.

Despite frigid temperatures, they are totally nonplussed and have chosen to spend their day on the ground rather than in their shelter. They are pretty easy to care for.

I wouldn't call them great guard animals but they do sound a loud alarm when strangers -- human or animal -- show up. So, if you want geese, I'd suggest you find a way to get some.

Good luck!
 
Right now those "2 little goslings" have ambled out of their pen -- complete with nice, deep straw bedding -- and booted all the ducks off their pile of straw bedding. So, it's more likely I will have runner duck-sicles today!! Of course, we have just gotten above 0 degrees for the first time in days, so the runners are already jumping into their water dish. Cute, crazy birds!!!
 
I dunno about other people, but I found that embden geese can be extremely intolerant of new additions to the flock. I had an embden gander that was raised with chickens and got along great... with the birds he was reared with. While this was the case he was a good guard-goose. We added new layers to the flock the following year... he took every opportunity to chase, beat up, and harass the new chickens. He almost killed one of them. When I made it such that he couldn't get at the chickens by putting him in his own pen with his goose... he took to attacking me. The final straw was him breaking skin with a particularly savage bite.

Notice the use of the word 'had'?

...

He made a lovely Christmas dinner.

EDIT: To be perfectly clear, the embdens were the first geese I'd ever raised by myself, but I had helped others raise geese, and been around geese. Not 100% sure if this is classic goose behavior or not, but it seems like it wasn't. I actually used the goose/gander aggression guide posted here to try to deal with the gander, which did work with other aggressive geese. Didn't seem to make a difference, he wanted blood and it didn't matter if it was mine or the "intruding" chickens. After this experience I am very disinclined to give other geese a try.
 
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