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I seperated my breeders yesturday.
By this I mean I took my pair of Toulouse and separated them from the shetland and Blue american. I had decided to segregate them because I caught my toulouse gander mating my shetland goose. I have read that Dewlap toulouse are not successful in trios, as the gander will often bond to one and ignore the other. I think now that I acted too late. The gander spent all yesturday and all today honking miserably, extremely aggitated, and acting entirely pitiful. Yesturday I fenced the two other geese, but today I let them forage, since they were less affected by the split. I have never seen my gander get more than two inches off the ground flapping at full speed, but this morning he somehow scaled the 4ft cattle fence twice. (after that I added heightened it). Tonight they are divided respectively half in the goose pen and half in the chicken run, but I only managed this after terrorizing them all.
So now that I've upset everyone and feel positively a hitler, is it worth it? Will he bond to his mate now that he is attached to another? I don't want to keep traumatizing everyone, but I don't want them pairing off for good. What do you all think I should do?
 
Dwen said:
I seperated my breeders yesturday.
By this I mean I took my pair of Toulouse and separated them from the shetland and Blue american. I had decided to segregate them because I caught my toulouse gander mating my shetland goose. I have read that Dewlap toulouse are not successful in trios, as the gander will often bond to one and ignore the other. I think now that I acted too late. The gander spent all yesturday and all today honking miserably, extremely aggitated, and acting entirely pitiful. Yesturday I fenced the two other geese, but today I let them forage, since they were less affected by the split. I have never seen my gander get more than two inches off the ground flapping at full speed, but this morning he somehow scaled the 4ft cattle fence twice. (after that I added heightened it). Tonight they are divided respectively half in the goose pen and half in the chicken run, but I only managed this after terrorizing them all.
So now that I've upset everyone and feel positively a hitler, is it worth it? Will he bond to his mate now that he is attached to another? I don't want to keep traumatizing everyone, but I don't want them pairing off for good. What do you all think I should do?
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I have a pair of dewlaps that I wanted to specifically breed from. They were in with a group of dewlaps and the gander started pairing up with another goose and it seemed like he was in love almost overnight, so I quickly separated them. The gander acted quite miserable the first day until I put out a fresh kiddy pool and then he went back and forth between hanging in pool with new goose and calling for the other at the fence. Every day he calls less and less and pays more and more attention to the goose he is with. Meanwhile the goose that he got separated from could care less and has already paired up with another gander.
 
Once bonded, would it be alright to let all four graze together again, or would it be better to keep apart for the rest of breeding season?
 
geese are not monogamous and will breed with any available female. It is highly recommended to always split breeders apart 30 days BEFORE expected eggs to ensure the eggs are pure and not cross bred.
 
CelticOaksFarm said:
geese are not monogamous and will breed with any available female.
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Oh, thank you for this information! With my Kate and Angus possibly both ganders, or maybe Angus is an Angie, (although they don't appear bonded to each other) I have worried about monogamy issues with geese.

On the one hand, it's kinda cool that I don't have to deal with reproduction like I did when my Cayugas doubled in number with just one hatch.
 

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