goose

Hi everyone, I've got a 6 month old Emden goose female who has some blood near her vent. After picking her up and looking her over as well as checking her vent she is pink and there's only blood on her feathers. I checked their coop and there's a tiny bit of blood in there but nothing massive...

This cute little American Buff Silly Goose is miss Olive. She isnt quite a year old yet. Right before christmas, her mate Gus goose gave his life protecting her from a coyote. He was such a good gander and is sorely missed. I assume Olive will likely be coming of breeding age in the spring. Gus...

I have two 10 week old geese, unsexed. I would like to know what normal growth rates are for them. Background: Same dad, probably different mothers. They were sold to me as pilgrim geese, I don't know how accurate that is because the seller's flock was not colour true and she inherited the...

Hello everyone! Long time since I've posted but I have a question for anyone that might know what's going on with an eye of one of my white embden geese. I noticed a couple months ago something was up with his (Guardy)'s eye but I don't know what. It doesn't seem to impair him at all but it's...

Hello, My goose laid her first soft egg on 10/26/23 and I have not seen an egg since. They are at the pond most of the day and locked in their pin at night. I have looked around the yard/pond and cannot find any evidence of a 2nd egg being laid. These are my first geese and not sure when to get...

Was looking through my gallery and came across baby pictures of 2 of my geese 🥹 I thought a thread where people posted pics of their birds as babies vs now would be so cute!! (Doesn’t just have to be geese! Can be any bird!!) I’ll start: here’s Polly and Sebastian a couple days after they were...

I always notice this about our Polly but it’s like she has no cheeks like our other geese, her head basically just blends seamlessly into her neck. Does anybody else have a goose like this? Is it normal? She’s definitely not underweight, I wonder if it’s just a facial feature.. both her and...

Wondering if this visible lump on his lower beak is normal or if I should worry about it?

Not sure what happened between our two ganders but it looks almost as if a blood feather has been ripped out? How should we handle this? He’s not bleeding out but it looks very sore!!

Just wanted to say hello from NC! Love the site!!!

Hey y'all! My husband just built me a new goose coop! I'm excited to move them in, but I need some guidance on what to use as a "floor". We don't have one in there due to these birds being absolutely disgusting. 🤢 I think it would be more of a headache for me to try to clean WITH a floor as...

I’m just curious my goose just started laying.. she layed a soft shelled and a hard shell the other day.. how often should I be looking to get an egg? I tried to research but it only tells me how many they could lay a year.

Hi guys! I was wondering what people do about geese in winter? Do you still let them access their ponds? Mine sleep in their kiddie pool (in an enclosed run) and I'm not sure if I'll have to introduce them to a building to sleep for winter. I'm in NC usa so we don't get super harsh winters by...

Hi! So this happened overnight with my goose's eye. Yesterday I noticed her eye was slightly closed, I immediately rinsed her eyes with saline solution and put ACV in her water. This is the picture from today. Whatever it is got worse. She can’t see from this eye at all, from what I noticed. Her...

My goose, about 4 months old, is clearly sick. He is very lethargic, and the main noticeable problem is that he is not extending his neck. He is keeping it close to him (folded up for lack of a better term), as if he was resting/sleeping. He is drinking a little bit, and as he does so, he still...

So our Sebastopol who’s 3 months old hurt her wing on Tuesday getting out of the little pool since she fell in without meaning to. There was one feather down which was causing her some pain when I moved it up but when I got back home on Friday it had disappeared and my mum said that since it...

Hi guys! One of our goslings took a tumble into the little paddling pool as she’s quite clumsy and really hurt her wing getting out 😢 she can move it but there’s an awkwardly placed feather that seems to be very painful for her when I touch it and her squeals sound quite hoarse so I’m very...

Hey guys, I'm looking at maybe getting a goose to protect my hen, however, I have seen a lot of people saying geese are not heat-hardy. I live in a place where winter rarely goes over 40 degrees and lasts maybe 2 months, and the summers can get well into 100 degrees Fahrenheit. If I do get a...

Hey guys, Recently I've been having some issues with predation on my free-range chicken flock and unfortunately, I am down to my last hen. I don't want to get another flock of chickens because this has happened twice in a row now, and nothing I do is keeping my flock safe. In a coop or free...

I got a breeding pair of Embdens in February. I lost my goose to a fox or coyote attack yesterday. My gander is frantically looking for her and it’s very heartbreaking on top of already losing his partner and our friend. I haven’t been able to find any Embden goslings for sale. Does anyone have...