ElGoose
Songster
- May 27, 2023
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So ever since they were young, my two bonded geese have had a lot of contact with the land around our garden including the canal and river. They are both very well behaved and come back when called - they are also both very healthy and have never shown signs of disease, the most we’ve had is bumble foot which came from a little splinter.
The land around our house is very private and the canal and river are very clean with hardly any activity whatsoever, there also used to be domestic geese that were here before us that roamed around too and never got infectious diseases.
I mentioned this in passing in a server and immediately am under fire because apparently im going to kill my flock by doing this and they’ll all die because my geese had a swim in the canal - is it really so awful or is that an overreaction? I personally think it’s done wonders for their immune system to be exposed to land outside the garden, I’ve never had any bird deaths or diseases but it looks like a lot of these people who are incredibly over protective are always dealing with large bouts of flock disease and having to cull half of their birds because of something which I often wonder is it maybe due to over sheltering?
I should also mention that one of our other geese lived here before us and is old, strong as an ox, and has gone wherever he pleased without ever showing signs of injury or disease either.
I’d love to know peoples thoughts on this as I’ve never been criticised before over letting them out sometimes.
The land around our house is very private and the canal and river are very clean with hardly any activity whatsoever, there also used to be domestic geese that were here before us that roamed around too and never got infectious diseases.
I mentioned this in passing in a server and immediately am under fire because apparently im going to kill my flock by doing this and they’ll all die because my geese had a swim in the canal - is it really so awful or is that an overreaction? I personally think it’s done wonders for their immune system to be exposed to land outside the garden, I’ve never had any bird deaths or diseases but it looks like a lot of these people who are incredibly over protective are always dealing with large bouts of flock disease and having to cull half of their birds because of something which I often wonder is it maybe due to over sheltering?
I should also mention that one of our other geese lived here before us and is old, strong as an ox, and has gone wherever he pleased without ever showing signs of injury or disease either.
I’d love to know peoples thoughts on this as I’ve never been criticised before over letting them out sometimes.