Wing Clipping

[busia]

I was given a Sebastopol goose a few months ago. He is my first experience with geese. I've been feeling sorry for him being all alone so three days ago I got him two companions. I got a female and her child and was so happy that from the very first minute they got along well and my Boris seemed happy. Then last evening the female decided to fly off. Fly over their enclosure- 6 ft fence, across half the neighbors backyard (1 acre lot) and over their 6 ft fence. Anyway, 4 houses, 1 field, me, my husband, and two neighbors later we got her back home.

Of course I haven't had to worry about Boris flying and the wonderful lady I got the other two from told me she a clipped their feathers-apparently she did it longer ago than I understood her to say.

So finally my question, I searched online on how to clip a gooses wings. I found alot of info on clipping chicken and duck wings, all of which said to clip the primary flight feathers only. The info I found about clipping goose wings was split about down the middle. Some said to do it the same way as the info for chickens and ducks and some said to leave the first 3-4 primaries, clip the rest as well as the secondaries. Which is the correct way to clip a goose?

 

[ralph a]

Not sure seen it done both ways. But less feathers means less chance of flight and no harm to bird. But they will grow back next year . But by then she may not even try to fly.

 

[Miss Lydia]

@busia Here is the one I use

clip only one wing it throws them off balance if they try to fly.

Welcome to BYC

 

[busia]

Thank you. I clipped them as shown in Miss Lydia's post below. I hope it does the trick.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Thank you. I clipped them as shown in Miss Lydia's post below. I hope it does the trick.

Now we need some pis of this new family.