Topic of the Week - Chicken Myths, True or False?

[ChocolateMouse]

Yeah, they found that's not an effective control strategy. The geese just decide that's an unsafe site and start over again somewhere else. If you oil the eggs the geese may sit the whole season trying to hatch eggs without being able to. They do the same thing with muscovies in FL.

 

[Akrnaf2]

Yeah, they found that's not an effective control strategy. The geese just decide that's an unsafe site and start over again somewhere else. If you oil the eggs the geese may sit the whole season trying to hatch eggs without being able to. They do the same thing with muscovies in FL.

And what about shooting the geese themselves?

 

[perchie.girl]

And what about shooting the geese themselves?

I believe they are protected...

 

[Akrnaf2]

I believe they are protected...

And defined as over populated pest?!

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

IF they have the eggs in their hand, way not simply destroy them?

Maybe because the geese will continue to lay?

That was my thought.

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

I believe they are protected...

And defined as over populated pest?!

Years ago a housing development on a large pond got some sort of permit to "disturb the nests". That meant once the babies hatched they collected everyone and took them away. Dispatched the parents and let the babies go. Looking back I'm not sure how that would work. The idea was the babies wouldn't imprint on the location and come back to hatch their own young. But how did they survive if their parents where gone? I think there may have been a misunderstanding on how that permit solved the problem.

Personally, I find them a nuisance and I understand removing them from populated public places. We have them in business parking lots and chasing children in school. Saying that; I don't understand how people can complain about geese in their yard when said person bought water front property. Did they think when they moved in the geese would leave?

 

[SueT]

I believe they are protected...

Many communities hire 'geese police' ..I've seen them in Kansas City, they use border collies.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

It may also be that there are no hunting laws in various areas. For example, we haven dozens of deer in our suburb. They cause traffic accidents and sometime chase people. But you can't hunt them. So they actually try birth control in salt licks on them.

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

We have geese police type services here as well. I don't think very many and therefore they are booked for parks and other more public places.
We have deer population issues as well. Again not against population control in a humane manor. There are areas here where they don't allow hunting but are ok with the deer starving.

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

HA! We got way off topic there. Oops.