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I am going to say within about 6 weeks. They grow really fast so it could be sooner than that. Except that anything is possible in the bird world and it could make a cute Disney movie I would be extra cautious about having them with adult chickens and once they are a few months old they can...

my geese have not done the damage. my damage to yard and runs comes from the chickens who leave devastation in their wake and the ducks who rut out a lunar landscape wherever they can.

That would not do anything to stop the brooding instinct. Females will always lay eggs and sometimes go broody and sit the eggs until they give up and go back to "normal". Having young to raise will not stop that instinct and you may end up with gander(s) which would add an entirely new aspect...

Geese will, during their "breeding season" lay an egg every other day. The eggs will not be fertile if there is no Gander to mate with. Taking up the eggs is O.K. and it is pretty unlikely she will go broody since she is just following what her body does by nature. Going broody and having no...

The larger of the two looks a lot like the eggs my Toulouse ladies lay. I would not be concerned. You may end up with a larger than usual gosling if they hatch. The first time ours laid/hatched they shared a nest and there were 20 odd eggs of which 8 hatched. That left us with a total of 11...

Must be something in the water. They are beautiful and probably a lot of fun. A lady about a mile up the road from us raises goats and this last year she must have had over a hundred little ones running and playing in her fields. I would drive up there just to sit and watch them play.

We are luck here in West Texas small towns to have pretty complete local feed stores that have everything we need from a buck to 5 bucks less than our local TSC. That includes chickens, ducks, geese (water fowl feed) dogs and cat.

Does not sound like typical egg laying behavior. Sounds more like she may be ill. Is there a vet nearby that you can consult with? If you have other birds I would keep her isolated from them until you know for sure. Sorry I could not be of more help.

In all likelihood there will probably be no problem. There is the chance (unlikely) of exposure to an avian illness. She/he will most probably migrate away at some point in the future. If not check with your local wild life agent just to make sure you don't need some sort of permit to house/care...

We have 15 chickens, 15 ducks and 7 geese as well as 7 dogs. The dogs do not mess with the birds only because there is a fence between them. I am sure the dogs would not "hurt" the birds but they may play then to death. So, we don't take chances. We also do not allow any other persons dogs on...

Agree. Let them do all the work. It will complete the cycle for them and be a lot less work for you. Just be careful and stay alert when you take the babies from them. Geese are pretty fierce parents.

Geese typically lay one egg every other day so she may have either laid an egg before (count 2) and moved it to her nest...they will do that. She will sit the eggs until broody breaks or she just gets tired of it. If you let her sit the nest be careful not to break them when you finally remove...

Perfectly normal behavior on the part of the goose. I have always been frustrated at how geese seem to prefer the company of other geese and not me.

I did a search for goose bow tie and found a lot of bow ties for people that have geese on them but not a one for the goose himself. Good luck.

I guess that is one of life's great mysteries. We have 7 geese. One gander has 4 females. One gander and one female are a couple. The larger group has their house and the couple has there own house. Each day, when they are let out, the gander from the couple goes off with the larger group and...

Ditto what sourland said above. Just give them time, soft talking to them, maybe a treat of some sort where only they can get to it. It sounds like their entire life, up to now, has been one of fear and abuse. They may never completely overcome that imprinting but with time and patience and...

Your geese will grow much faster then the ducklings but they should do o.k. together for a little while longer. We had our geese with our ducks to begin with and they did o.k. but when the geese got to be about 3 or 4 months old the ganders started to attack the ducks so they went out into a...

We have 7 Toulouse grouped as one male with 4 females and 1 male with 1 female. The get along pretty well sharing a bit more than 3 acres. But when mating season is on us they fight to the death trying to take all the females.

The second one then might be the best.

Either might work depending on their measurements. They need space to stand upright and fully stretch out their wings.