Support Group for Abused Duck Keepers

[Maddcatter]

I was tired of the duck abuse so I decided to add a gosling
Stella is a sweetheart and just wants to be right beside me at all times
If I’m sitting she is on my lap
Trying to get my duck house cleaned tonight and she jumps on my lap and head dives onto my arm
Well a 30 min job took me well over an hour having to move a little ar a time while she sat on my lap
I actually went to my friends to pick up Ancona ducklings and somehow came home with ducklings and Stella
I’m only keeping a few Ancona’s the rest are sold I just brought them back for my friend

I am both intrigued and worried about this. I thought geese were *mean*... But if this works out for you, I might give it a go.

...the geese at the park are free, right?!

 

[fluffycrow]

I told you you'd get geese soon enough

 

[Maddcatter]

Do you think making the water a little dirty would help?

If you have a treat that they like, put it in the water. They don't actually dislike clean water. (so long as it doesn't have chlorine.)
I taught up ducks to go into the duck pond by placing spinach up the ramp and into the water.

 

[Maddcatter]

Apparently my ducks don’t abuse me enough
I needed more

I know this feeling.

 

[New duck mommy 2021]

I am both intrigued and worried about this. I thought geese were *mean*... But if this works out for you, I might give it a go.

...the geese at the park are free, right?!

Ganders can be really mean at breeding season
I got a girl. My friend gets dna tearing done as she wasn’t selling these birds
I got lucky to get one
Gils can hiss and get mean as well but not like the boys

 

[BelovedBirds]

I am both intrigued and worried about this. I thought geese were *mean*... But if this works out for you, I might give it a go.

...the geese at the park are free, right?!

They don't deserve all the bad rep imo!
Even my local wild and dumped geese are incredibly sweet. They interact and ask for treats, but are very lovely birds. They're simply capable of being hormonal and nasty, like with any species
I want geese so bad!

 

[ruthhope]

I would love a goose -- and could rehab a gosling and keep it when I am back home in Florida. But I don't have any grass there. Where I am staying in Northern Virginia has half an acre and a large grassy fenced back yard. It would be so easy (and against County ordinances) to keep a goose here. But geese are noisy! They would turn themselves and the ducks in to code enforcement.

My friend the wildlife rehabber in Florida, had to keep a goose with angel wing. That goose wakes all the neighborhood up at dawn!!

 

[Luv Ducks]

My Huge Mule Duck is my substitute Goose. She is very friendly and I hatched her out by peeling her out of her shell to save her. I don't think she ever forgot that as she is the friendliest of all of my Ducks. She won't lay eggs but earns her keep by keeping the boys in line and being so nice to me. Good luck with your little Goose.

 

[Goosebaby]

I’m so glad I found this thread and I know I’m not alone in the struggles!

I have 11 geese, 6 of which are ganders. I’ve been through hormonal battles, love triangles, egg thievery, everything with my geese, but the difference between my geese and my ducks is that I can reason with my geese or at least understand the “whys” of what they do.

This is the shitsparkle that’s been terrorizing my days.



One little buff drake that’s made it his life’s mission to make every waking moment of mine into hell.

It started all cute. Following me around like a devoted puppy, weaving between my feet like a kitten when I’d stop walking.

That quickly changed and now I have a repressed ankle obsessed Victorian fiend that haunts my every move. Hovering in my shadow, chasing me wherever I go, biting at my shoes, my legs, my ankles, my clothing, ambushing me and tripping me. I’ve actually stepped on him a few times while trying to avoid tripping over him. I’ve dropped everything in my horror to see if he’s alright, afraid I’d smooshed him for good, only to have my fear replaced with anger as the little shit, completly fine, then bites me.
I’ve spilt feed and water buckets because of his osession with my feet. I’ve slipped and fallen on ice, on mud, while walking down banks because of this little monster.

The only think he respects is my geese at the moment, they’ve gotten into the habit of blocking him from me.

But he’s always there, lurking, watching for his next opportunity to get me.

 

[Luv Ducks]

I’m so glad I found this thread and I know I’m not alone in the struggles!

I have 11 geese, 6 of which are ganders. I’ve been through hormonal battles, love triangles, egg thievery, everything with my geese, but the difference between my geese and my ducks is that I can reason with my geese or at least understand the “whys” of what they do.

This is the shitsparkle that’s been terrorizing my days.

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One little buff drake that’s made it his life’s mission to make every waking moment of mine into hell.

It started all cute. Following me around like a devoted puppy, weaving between my feet like a kitten when I’d stop walking.

That quickly changed and now I have a repressed ankle obsessed Victorian fiend that haunts my every move. Hovering in my shadow, chasing me wherever I go, biting at my shoes, my legs, my ankles, my clothing, ambushing me and tripping me. I’ve actually stepped on him a few times while trying to avoid tripping over him. I’ve dropped everything in my horror to see if he’s alright, afraid I’d smooshed him for good, only to have my fear replaced with anger as the little shit, completly fine, then bites me.
I’ve spilt feed and water buckets because of his osession with my feet. I’ve slipped and fallen on ice, on mud, while walking down banks because of this little monster.

The only think he respects is my geese at the moment, they’ve gotten into the habit of blocking him from me.

But he’s always there, lurking, watching for his next opportunity to get me.

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I feel for you. I would not like to tolerate that abuse at all. He would probably be rehomed if he were mine because falling is not anything I wish to do. When my Mallard Drake thought he would just nibble on my feet a couple of years ago I only had to pin him down twice and hold him down for about a minute and he has never done it since.