Goose tried to mate with me.

[gooseattack]

ok. something really messed up happened to me.
I'm outside doing a watering system, squatting down on the grass.
My male goose, Far, waddles up to me all curious. He hangs out, looming and nibbling at the water system pieces, wishing he had arms to help me with. Or so I thought...
After a while be begins trying to climb on me. He's done this before and I thought it was because he remembered being in my lap as a gosling. All of the sudden, he gets enough leverage and hops on my back, digging his claws into me and using his beak to grab the back of my hair for balance...like he does to his sister wife Fetched when they mate.
I am horrified, not really from the pain, but from the thought of his gross goose wiener being near me. I panic and start screaming for my husband who runs over in disbelief and grabs Far off me, throwing him over the fence into his enclosure.
I'm pretty shook. "He just tried to mate with me and I'm not even in water" I say.
My husband looks at me and says "what do u expect, he's a goose.

 

[gtaus]

I found it best never to turn my back to my geese.

Some animals, like dogs, will go through a mating type posture/action not so much to actually mate, but to show their dominance over the other. I don't know if that holds true for geese, but I am sorry that you had that experience. I say you should go back out there and show him your dominance over him. And, of course, don't turn your back on the geese....

 

[Callender Girl]

I agree that it's more about dominance.

Sorry about your injuries. Geese can be pretty powerful. I once got a black eye from one of my American Buffs after I took a wing to the face when I was trying to relocate her for her own good.

BTW, welcome to BYC, where you will, hopefully, get to post about many, many more pleasant experiences!

 

[Leader Bee]

I thought my goose was just doing "washing behaviour" when he kept bowing his chest to the ground but apparently not - it's a mating dance and once I worked it out I did it to him and he did it back, lol, pretty funny but I don't like him that way.

 

[Goosebaby]

It’s breeding horomones, I disagree about it being a dominance issue, geese express dominance by beating others into submission, trying to breed with you is just horomonal confusion, squatting on the ground is what made him think you were in “the mood.”

 

[gtaus]

just horomonal confusion

I know some guys that suffered from horomonal confusion, but their (ex)wives would have nothing to do with that excuse....

 

[RoosterML]

Goose gone wild is all I have to say!!! Sorry can’t stop laughing.

 

[Painted Calls]

Hopefully his hormones will settle down once we get further into the season.

 

[RoosterML]

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Hopefully his hormones will settle down once we get further into the season.

 

[Orpingtons Mom]

There is a wonderful wonderful WONDERFUL book, Wesley the Owl-a love story of an owl and his girl.

She is a biologist and raised an unreleasable barn owl from a chick. He would mate with her arm, and she wrote about it in a non embarrassing way. She understood it as a part of the normal instinct of the bird.