Toulouse Geese wing clipping.

[erehwon]

Our remaining geese are having great fun running and flying, only a couple of feet of the ground at present (and I will say I enjoy seeing them do this), will they be capable of clearing six foot in height? If so........ I am afraid I will have to clip their wings which is not something I really want to do.

We have clipped our female muscovies as we often returned home and found them sitting on the wood piles outside our house, will it be the same procedure for these geese?

Many thanks again.

 

[Serin]

Once adult these geese are usually too fat to get lift more than you are describing.

 

[DiYMama540]

How old are they? I agree with @Serin, most Toulouse are too heavy to get very far off the ground, but if the conditions were just right (downhill, good wind) I wouldn't put it past them. If you do have to clip, you can start with just one wing will usually solve the problem.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Yes same as Muscovy. My Toulouse female cleared a 4’ fence once. I clipped her wing and next year when she molted out her flight feathers and grew then back she never flew over the fence again. I think the first time was an oops.

 

[ColtHandorf]

I'll say this: my American Buff pair run and flap around with the hen getting a foot or two off the ground for six or seven feet. But the day they came home my gander startled and cleared my five foot fence. He's never done it again though.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Oops!

 

[ColtHandorf]

Oops!

That was not the first thing I said...lol I'd just gotten back from a five-hour car drive to get them where I stopped at Tractor Supply on the way in to grab them a few things. She's laid in the kennel between the store and the house. I had to carry them several hundred feet from the driveway to their pen. They were both on high alert and really unsure of everything. I let the dogs outside in the backyard to let them go to the bathroom. Of course Anna, one of the standard poodles ran by and the two geese panicked which freaked her out. He just launched himself straight up. He was definitely above my head and I'm over six feet. I'd guess he got eight feet up and then just wheeled out into the meadow/pasture behind the house. All I could think was that I couldn't believe I'd driven that far to bring something home that could escape that easily. lol Thankfully Georgia stayed in the pen and he didn't wander to far from her. I wasn't sure he'd let me pick him up, but he was too scared to really move much. I picked him up and steered him as he walked until I got him back in the pen. He's never done it again.

 

[Miss Lydia]

What a story glad he let you get him back home!

 

[erehwon]

Many thanks everyone for the replies.

How old are they?

These are around 7 months old.