Why does my goose get annoyed by the ducks' hanky panky?

[KatGold]

I didn't know if I should post this under geese or ducks, so here it goes.

We have a family ranch. It has a 2-ac tank on it. Currently, we have 7 Muscovy ducks (4 males and 3 females) and a trio of Grey Geese. No babies yet from anyone. I suspect the eggs are getting eaten.

The Muscovy's seem to have formed groups. There is one m/f pair, and trio (m/f/f) and one set of roommates (m/m). The groups don't mix.

Yesterday during a visit to the ranch, I saw the male from the pair mount the female. Immediately, the geese started honking up a storm and swam over to them. The male goose mounted the male duck who was mounting the poor little female duck who was submerged for quite a while. This when on for many minutes. The whole time the geese were honking and making a ruckus.

What's going on?

And what do I make of the male-male pair? Will they just hang out all season until we get more females? I'm hoping so. I'm afraid for the girls with the presence of all those males.

 

[goosedragon]

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I can not give you a reason on the reaction of the geese but it is normal. My geese did the same even to the point of interfering in the mating. I finally got a pool out of sight of the goose pool where the ducks could slip off to to mate.

 

[Gyburc]

Our geese used to do this a lot. They seemed to object particularly when our drake chased his girls around a lot first. I really don't know why!

Re the male/female ratio in the ducks, do be careful. We had a couple of female ducks get quite badly mauled around last year when we had too many drakes (feathers ripped out, very thin because they seldom got anywhere near the food).

 

[3dogs]

When I had chickens, ducks and geese, the geese were the sex police of the yard. Some drakes and roosters lost a few tail feathers to the "geestapo", but otherwise no apparent harm was done.

 

[goosemama]

"Geesetapo" - I love it!!! We have a Chinese gander and an Embden goose that are a pair and he gets all upset when the ducks mate. He doesn't climb on them but swims over and starts vocalizing and very upset - we call him the local Bobby trying to keep order in the ranks. Guess this must be normal behavior hearing from so many who have experienced the same. We only have 2 male ducks left so there will obviously be no more hanky-panky going on to bother the gander.

 

[sluallen]

When I had chickens, ducks and geese, the geese were the sex police of the yard. Some drakes and roosters lost a few tail feathers to the "geestapo", but otherwise no apparent harm was done.

I have 2 m/f pairs of geese, Embden and French Toulouse. I also have 2 roos, 35 hens, 3 drakes, and 10 female ducks. My geese go vocally nuts and attack any drake or Roo trying to mate. I have no idea why, but have wondered the same.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Mine sure put up a ruckus about it. I think they think they are superior and should be the only ones mating. lol Missy still does it more so than my gander ever did.