Do geese have to have water to live in a run/coop

[Chicken Casanova]

i was thinking about getting gesse and i was wondering do i have to have a pond in my run for them to live, or is it just for happy ness.

 

[BirdBrain]

It would be good for your geese to have a bathing place. It can be as simple as a kiddie wading pool or one of those black plastic concrete mixing trays from Lowes or Home Depot. According to Dave Holderread, even six inches of water will help increase fertility rates. So, yeah, they need some place to get wet in.

 

[If the Goose Fits]

Geese, unlike ducks, do not need a pond. Sure they love to splash around in it, but unlike ducks, they do not need it to survive. Plenty of people raise their geese just on pasture.

Of course they do need water to drink though.
Having a water source will also increase you fertility rates by some absurd percentage (30%?) but if you aren't concerned about breeding geese, no big deal.
Seeing geese play in something even as little as a horse trough is pure joy though.

 

[opalwednesday]

I've been giving my geese playtime in the water since they were a week old. They're five weeks old now and during kiddie pool time they washed themselves for the first time. They groomed, splashed, dove and bobbed on repeat until I took them out. My geese will probably never have a pond [

] but the fun that they have in the little pool is something that I could never let them go without.

 

[Balbinka]

Swimming water is not necessary for geese, but clean bathing water is!
Geese need to be able to flush out their beaks and nostrils every single day.

To keep their feathering in prime condition, it's best if they bathe daily in clean water.

 

[GarlicEater]

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EXACTLY. They need to wash their heads and their bodies.

You can use a kiddie pool, anything that's easy to tip up and rinse the gunk out because it WILL get GUNKY. I keep a constant drip running into mine, plus I tip it up and rinse out the gunk daily.

Geese entail a certain amount of work.

 

[If the Goose Fits]

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Oh my goodness, exactly! They can be such demanding birds! Hearing them yell at me in the morning says exactly what they think of me.

"Why weren't you up earlier? We've been waiting for you for hours! What do you think we can wait around all day for you to let us out?!?!"