Weird goose behavior.

[poultry person]

I have two embded geese and lately they have been acting weird. Every time the female goose (Sparrow) gets into their pool she doesn't let the gander (Captain) get in. And when he does she bites his foot until he gets out, this just started happening. Are they going to mate? What's going on?

 

[poultry person]

Also I'm starting to question if I have the genders switched.

 

[Gray Farms]

Are you positive you indeed have a pair?

 

[J.Bird]

I have two embded geese and lately they have been acting weird. Every time the female goose (Sparrow) gets into their pool she doesn't let the gander (Captain) get in. And when he does she bites his foot until he gets out, this just started happening. Are they going to mate? What's going on?

Are you sure that Sparrow is a female? Cause if she isn't, it might be a sign of aggression or dominance.

 

[JedJackson]

I have two embded geese and lately they have been acting weird. Every time the female goose (Sparrow) gets into their pool she doesn't let the gander (Captain) get in. And when he does she bites his foot until he gets out, this just started happening. Are they going to mate? What's going on?

It's at or very near the start of breeding season for geese so this could indicate you have two males or two females that are just now showing the signs of it due to increased hormonal activity. If they are a m/f pair then perhaps they are just not into each other. That can happen with geese.

Unless you were wanting to breed them or get eggs I wouldn't worry about it. If you were wanting eggs or goslings it is worth determining their sexes. Perhaps you could look into vent sexing them or recording them honking and then playing the video of it on here. I've seen several people in here say geese can be sexed by their calls just like ducks.

 

[poultry person]

Are you positive you indeed have a pair?

I feel like sparrow might be a male but my sister insist that she's female.

 

[poultry person]

I'll put pictures up.

 

[Gray Farms]

Pictures may help. Also adult geese are fairly easy to vent sex.

 

[poultry person]

Sparrow:
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Captain:

Sparrow (right) and Captain (left)

 

[Gray Farms]

Its very hard to say just from pictures. But they both look like females to me.