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Same scenario at our house. 37 acres- 9 of it lake and they spend a great deal of their time on our concrete drive in front of the garage or on our front porch! It's a site to see 16 geese on the front porch when you come home. I have to hose it down every evening. I have no idea what is so...

Give him time, but he may never get completely in the troughs. I had some geese that took longer to get in the lake and swim. I have some geese who bather in the lake frequently and others who rarely do as adults. Those are content to stand around their buckets and wash and preen themselves...

First off, how many geese do you have? Do you plan on locking them in at night or just strictly using it for them to choose to get out of the harsh weather? I have two three sided sheds located in two seperate fenced in area for my 16 geese. I put their food bowls in them all year round so it...

It is the heat. Geese do have a hard time keeping cool when its really hot and they do drool out or even kind of throw up clear water during bad heat waves at my house. Mine gather around the water buckets more when its really hot and dunk their heads etc... Just make sure they have plenty of...

I have multiple ganders in different subsets of flocks that all coexist together. They have mated with some of the females in my other flocks. The first time my ganders would fight I would do the same thing you did and try to break it up, yelling and screaming and waving my hands. I've since...

All the behaviors he's showing are normal for ganders. I've got some ganders who are downright meaner than hornets, especially in the late winter, early spring during mating season and others that just hiss but run away if you go at them. I've raised all but one from hatching and it doesn't make...

As long as she's continuing to eat and drink just watch her. I have had many of my geese start limping and can't see any outward injury. They are usually back to normal within a couple weeks. I did have one gosling recently who I thought had hurt his foot. Turned out he had an infection which...

My ganders have fought each other like nobody's business until one basically wins the battle and is the dominant one. They seem like they are going to kill each other when they really get into it but I just let them go and somebody always gives in. They have to do this to determine the pecking...

I know they do kind of look deformed. lol I had one poor little girl last year who was what I called a runt. She was so small and when her flight feathers started coming in she couldn't keep either wing up and they drug the ground she was so short at the time. She went around that way for weeks...

I don't remember now what antibiotic they gave me. The vet drew up the syringes with the antibiotics so I was ready to go with all 7 days and to tell the truth I'm not sure they even told me what it was. Sorry no help with that

The dropping of the wings happens to alot of goslings due to the flight feathers are coming in and they are heavy because they are engorged with blood. They can get so heavy they can't keep them up for awhile until the feathers come in and the blood supply lessens. I've had many a gosling who...

It might be a niacin deficiency but most likely not. In two different sets of my hatched goslings I have had two seperate incidences with two of them who became weak and wouldn't eat and visibly lost weight rapidly at around 3 weeks old or so. The first one had a blood infection. I took her to...

Geese are notorious for eating just about anything they can so don't assume they won't eat something that's poisonous. I freaked out the first year I had geese because they ate all my hosta's and petunia's. Luckily I looked it up online and those things weren't poisonous. I googlespoisonous...

You can stop the cracked corn in the spring/summer/fall months. Cracked corn is very high in carbs and its kind of like potato chips for us with geese. It should only be given as a treat now and then. In the winter months if you live in a cold climate yo ucan resume a small bowl of cracked corn...

It's hit and miss whether your goose will be fertile by next spring. They will breed but they say the males aren't fertile the first year as a rule. I've had one first year gander who produced fertile eggs but he's my only one. Other people have said theirs were too so I guess it will just be a...