Hello all-
Long time reader and new member here! I am excited to become a part of the community I have turned to for advice and suggestions for so long.
I have owned my own chickens for about four years, and currently only have two hens (black jersey giant, laced Wyandotte) and one rooster...
Hi I had a general question about some Chinese/african geese, me and my family went to see a house today and there was geese walking around the front yard and I asked about the geese and he said they weren't his? It's strange because the geese were extremely friendly. Another thing he said was...
Non-bird people keep asking me what birds smell like because they’ve seen bird owners on TikTok and Instagram talking about how good they smell.
I’ve kept various parrots and a canary over my life and when they’re clean they just smell sort of dusty. I think people think they smell nice because...
So i'm taking a friends geese. i only have experience taking care of ducks.
Should i just do what do i do for the ducks? or is there something else i should do for them?
Winters here aren't the best, last year my male ducks curls froze off.
there's three of them, idk if there all coming.
also...
I have been raising 4 pekin ducks and 4 Norwegian geese from hatchlings. All was going well until they started getting horny!
(I have 2 female ducks, 2 male. I am not 100% sure about the geese but suspect I have 3 male and 1 female.) They have been housed together at night, and then left to...
How noisy are geese compared to ducks? I have 6 ducks (new to ducks) my husband told me last night are too loud and annoying (I barely notice them) and I can't get anymore or replace any of these when they pass. I was planning to add geese next spring, but now I am worrier that dream is being...
Hello everyone bit of a long story but I have some questions about a pair of geese in my backyard (I don't know much about geese).
My backyard has a fairly large pond with a little island in the middle about the size of an average room in a house. Ever since I was a little kid a pair of geese...
I’m thinking about adding geese to my flock, mainly for meat. I’ve got some idle pasture that would support quite a few geese, but I think I’d start small, maybe 4-7.
I’ve kept and slaughtered chickens, quail, and rabbits for meat, and in each case the animals to be slaughtered were kept...
Hi, so this might be long but hopefully I'll get some feedback. We have 8 ducks and 2 geese, they're about 8 weeks old. We had 3 geese but a horned owl got into our pen and killed one of our geese. We just recently got turkeys and thought they'd be ok to go into the pen with the ducks and geese...
Funny story....
One day I told my mailman I wanted a chicken to clean up after my 3 embden geese to help keep the vermin population down. I made a crazy rat trap but the geese ate it by the next day.(see picts)
One day the mailman showed up with bills in one hand and a chicken upside-down in the...
Ive got a 1500 professional as well as the large egg setting trays with 5 rails/ basket troughs each tray. Ive also got a lot of geese I want to hatch from and just got our first egg of the year today. I put the egg in the basket tray to see how it sat in there and it doesnt seem like it will...
Hello backyard chicken friends,
I have a gosling with an eye issue and I hope you can help me!
Deets:
-- 4 month old male Roman Tufted gosling. Normal weight and seemed normal until yesterday morning.
-- Yesterday morning when we let the animals out of the barn he was holding the left eye...
hi all
We have a mid size family farm in central Chile where we grow cherries and wine grape
A farm with no animals is like a still nature painting so we try to have a few (what the farm can sustain) animals to enjoy seeing them grow and wonder around in a free and caring environment, and why...
We have two baby goslings that are getting huge at 12 weeks, they are out all day but at night go back to their almost too small pen. The hens and rooster ignore them, and they have grown up with ten real pretty new babies who are also thriving. We want to to live in the fenced safe yard and hen...
Hello! We have had AWFUL raining and storms 2 days ago and the water flooded everything! I found 5 geese eggs scattered on the shoreline, one was submerged underwater, another partially submerged and the rest was covered in icky debris. The water was chilly that day and I don't know how long...
I hatched an indian runner duck and an african gander this year and they have grown to in inseperable througj the months. I believed the gander to be a goose for a long time and so thought that they were just best buddies. However my brother has noticed the gander trying to mate with the duck...
I have two Embdens they aren't the most social creatures, but one thing I do know is that they love treats. I don't usually give them to many treats, but people don't realize that there are other ways to fascinate your geese by using enrichment activities such as:
* apple bobbing, with my geese...