Geese filling their pool with rocks?!

[clbarley]

So I was wondering if anyone is having the same problem I am. We have 3 african geese and they have full access to a kiddie pool all day and at night when I go to dump it, I actually have to scoop out rocks, and I mean a ton of rocks, just to dump it......anyone know why they do this? Or have a group that do the same thing! Thanks!

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Move away from and or off of the rocks and they will put far less into the water. We find objects in the pools all of the time too.

 

[clbarley]

The rocks are in our soil we have a really rocky area. We live on top of a mountain. So they dig them out and put them in. I have never seen them do it, but find it all the time. I just thought it was really odd!

 

[RURU]

You can move them from the rocks but they will still put them in there but a lot less of them. Mine because we have a lot of nut trees put nuts in there all the time. I find both rocks and nuts in their water. Plus they make mud pies with the water all the time as well....

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

If you cant move away from the rocks, there isnt much to stop it then since they are readily available.

 

[clbarley]

Do you know why they do it? Thats what I was wondering lol

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

boredom, because they can, because they are curious, because they like to play with things, because its fun to them lol

 

[clbarley]

You missed one, because their mother doesnt want them too.....

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

because they like to laugh at you lifting the pool

 

[SillyCityGirl]

Mine put rocks in their big pool. They never put them in their cat pan where I soften alfalfa and timothy cubes for them since we don't have much grass, although I have caught them preening in the cat pan.