Want to keep geese with ducks

[KittyIsQuackers]

I want to merge my geese and ducks. I only got the geese in the past week. Two female and one male geese, and three female and one male duck. My drake (he’s a little thing and his name is Max), keeps chasing the geese when they get too close to him/his girls. I have two coops, one is very small but has a small yard, too, and the other is about twice as big, but no yard. How do I merge the flocks? They've been spending the night in coops facing each other for a few days now. How long should I wait like that? During the day, they’re all loose, but stay far away from each other. Should I put Max with one female in the big coop and switch the girl out every night, or should I just do something else? The geese take no action against him or anyone else. The most they’ve done is the gander hiss at me when I move too fast.

 

[Rondack]

We keep a goose with our two ducks.....

 

[Miss Lydia]

I'd try for a week the way you are doing. The drake may not ever take to the geese especially the gander but worth trying. If the geese wanted to they could kill your ducks so always best to start things off slowly and let them all get use to each other. My gander and Muscovy drake do not like each other at all so my geese have their own house but they all forage on a little more than half acre every day.

 

[Rondack]

Well, my geese (now only one goose) grew up with the ducks.....

 

[Miss Lydia]

Makes a difference if raised together. @Rondack what happened to your other goose? I remember you had 2.

 

[Rondack]

While we were away a predator, (we think a fox) got the gander or at least we think it's the gander... So now I have one goose , can I buy a gander? Would they mate?

 

[Miss Lydia]

They would def mate if you can post some pics we maybe able to tell if you have a gander or goose. Very sorry for your loss. I’d def figure out what sex you have before getting another. Does your goose have a high pitched honk or does he/ she mumble?

 

[KittyIsQuackers]

What's happened so far:
I’ve had the geese for a little while now and they’ve given me about eight goose eggs by now, and now Hermione, one of the girls, is sitting on a nest in their house. There are five eggs under her, four of which were refrigerated for about four-five days. I let them set for about twelve hours, and they got to room temperature. I’ve looked it up and it seems that it’s possible to incubate chicken eggs as long as they haven’t been in the fridge for more than five days. I was able to put them under her, although Max still chases the geese every now and then (as I was going inside from collecting duck eggs he started to chase her inside the pen. She knocked the water bucket over and a few nights ago I found the water bucket knocked over as it is now, and a few before that the water bucket knocked over) I don’t think he’s going to stop completely, and the geese are a little afraid of his quack. The geese have a little mud pool about fifteen feet from their house and love it, I find them there every evening when I go to put them up. The geese don’t mind me as much, and will only hiss if I get closer than about six feet and they’re not able to move out of the way. They don’t even hiss when I walk behind them to put them up. (Because of heavy rain and flooding in the creek in our yard, which has more than doubled, I saw my ducks dabbling for the first time and IT WAS SO CUTE. THEIR LITTLE FLUFFY TAILS THE ONLY THING ABOVE THE WATER.)

 

[KittyIsQuackers]

Also, would it help if I were to put him in a medium cage of some sort and put him in the goose cage, leaving the geese in there for several more hours after the sun rises so he gets used to them? Or would that make Max sad or anything like that? Maybe do that for a week? Would that help the chasing?

 

[Miss Lydia]

I wouldn't pen ducks and geese together during breeding season. I have read on here geese killing ducks that have been penned up together. Geese are very temperamental during the mating season and when goslings hatch do not want anything around their babies.