Want to keep geese with ducks

[KittyIsQuackers]

I didn't mean loose, but more like a dog crate with Max in it while the geese are sitting nearby so that no one can actually physically interact.

I didn't raise them from hatchlings like my ducks, so I don't know about their raising, but my geese are more like chickens than the angry birds I’ve read up on. The most the geese have ever done, including when I got too close/moved too fast/both, is hiss or honk loudly. They don’t even seem to consider hissing at Max, or chasing him back, or doing anything other than flap their wings and run away. Like, “Scary!! Don’t engage!!” They seem terrified of him, and he seems aggressive towards them. I just wondered if a bit of separate but together time out would help.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Try it that’s all you can do. What breed are your geese?

 

[KittyIsQuackers]

American Buffs, two of them are crested

 

[Miss Lydia]

Mild mannered more so than some other breeds. Hopefully it will work out just know during breeding season it can get dicey that is when my gander and drake go at it often but neither of them mess with my Runner drake. Hopefully your drake will accept them. If they are in a large area they may just begin to tolerate one another and the aggressor will back off. That’s all I accept is that my two tolerate each other they will never be best buds or be able to sleep in the same house together. But my breeds are Embden and Muscovy. Two very bull headed breeds.

 

[Miss Lydia]

If you have a goose sitting eggs I wouldn’t have the ducks in with them. If at all possible put up another fenced area so your ducks and geese can live side by side until breeding and hatching and rearing is over then let them all be together. By then they will have lived together but separate long enough and hormones are settling down some to where things may go better. You really don’t want your geese hatching with other birds in there with them drakes can’t always be trusted around ducklings goslings or other poultry babies. Plus geese are very protective of their off spring. Geese are awesome parents and the whole gaggle will participate in raising the goslings but they really don’t want others animals or human interfering and to them just being in close proximity means interfering .