BeccaDoe
Songster
Good evening. I hope you all are doing well. I am three months into raising geese and I have a question about attitude changes in my feather kids.
Ruby and Jasper have been fun little goslings. Sweet, chatty, a bit nibble, but I was assured that was normal. Three months in and Ruby has attacked me three evenings in a row. Jasper doesn't attack, though they do talk severely at me. This is new, frightening for me, and worrisome to the other humans in their flock.
One, how do I get her back to her sweet and sassy self (I say her, but I actually don't know the genders of either) if I even can. And two, how do I defend myself and discourage this kind of behavior in the future?
Note: There are chickens here established in a flock and I am currently introducing pullets to the big girls. The attacks always seem to occur when it's time for the pullets to go back in their crates for the night. Perhaps this is related?
Picture for tax of my little feather Brat and their goose partner.
Ruby and Jasper have been fun little goslings. Sweet, chatty, a bit nibble, but I was assured that was normal. Three months in and Ruby has attacked me three evenings in a row. Jasper doesn't attack, though they do talk severely at me. This is new, frightening for me, and worrisome to the other humans in their flock.
One, how do I get her back to her sweet and sassy self (I say her, but I actually don't know the genders of either) if I even can. And two, how do I defend myself and discourage this kind of behavior in the future?
Note: There are chickens here established in a flock and I am currently introducing pullets to the big girls. The attacks always seem to occur when it's time for the pullets to go back in their crates for the night. Perhaps this is related?
Picture for tax of my little feather Brat and their goose partner.