All you can do is try, my feeling is if the ducklings were older they would be more apt to pick on the gosling than the other way around, but the only way to know for sure is to try. So glad to hear Boris has taken on a protective role to both gosling and chicks . We have just hatched chicks under 2 mama hens, My gander doesn't usually like mama hens because they get testy with him, so we'll have to watch closely when they bring out their chicks.Update. My little goslings are growing very well. It has been sunny and somewhat decent outside yesterday and today. I put the goslings in a sunny and wind protected area with a shelter with heat lamp. They love it. At night they come in.
Boris sure does like the goslings. He likes to graze and preen in a pool across our yard with the ducks but when he wants to rest he cozies up to the area with the goslings. He has also taken a protective role by keeping the "evil chickens away from them. What makes it comical is that there are chicks in the area he is protecting.
I do have a question. I have newly hatched pekin ducklings. Would it be okay to slowly introduce them to the goslings and brood them together?
Last year I brooded goslings with ducklings but they were the exact same age. Do you think this is too much of a risk of the ducklings getting hurt? It would be much easier to brood chicks by themselves and waterfowl together? What do you guys think?
Thanks