Everything I Know About Raising Geese 

Hi Leah, maybe you can help me, but I have a male and female, they are about 5 weeks old, actually I think he is a week older, anyhow about 2 weeks of age I started noticing that she was pecking at his feathers and eating them,,,, so I’ve had to separate her since because it’s gotten worse.... and now that she’s getting bigger she really digs in there and he screams in pain. I have them out grazing all day and if I can’t watch them like I said I have her in her own coop... they have their own water bowls, food bowls,, always have... sufficient space,,, and she is mean to our chickens too... she bites their necks so hard I’m afraid she’s gonna kill them,,, they all steer clear of her and absolutely love him.... but he still cries to be around her,, it’s so bizarre..... I’ve given non medicated chicken grower, mealworms, oyster shells, and they graze like I said... just now I had to put them in this huge horse water tub but I put a gate so she can’t hurt him and they cried and cried so I gave in and put her with him and the first thing she did was bite him so hard I could feel his pain.... and she swallows his feathers.... help me!!! Please 😫

@@aprilrain4296 Would you mind giving us an update on how you solved this?

@@jtoddjb I didn't solve this, she just grew out of it. I noticed when I started leaving them outside day/night in the coop she gradually stopped. But turns out they are both females! Those silly geese!! But she is definitely still the boss, the whole flock moves out of her way still to this day, even our rooster. She is no longer mean to them and actually it's the other female, the one she bullied, that turned out to be mean to the others.

@@aprilrain4296 With most poultry when they bully one of the others you have to temporarily separate them until the injured bird heals up. When its healed up then you re-introduce. It doesn't always stop the behavior. But part of why this behavior occurs isn't just about the behavior but about PERCEIVED WEAKNESS. Chickens do it, especially. And with chickens as long as a bird is wounded it will get 'pecked on' (picked on). (get it?) So when you reintroduce it, it needs to look healed up to not look weak. People may have to do this 1 to 3 times with some poultry species. Another trick is to reintroduce a smaller bird than the one picked on that's healthy or other birds and this resets the pecking order. If the smaller bird is faster also that will help on the reset. HOWEVER... it is a small chance also that the new birds may also pick on an injured bird so you have to watch for this. But this may work. This is also why people are fast to separate injured poultry from the others. You can try things to get things to work.

I legit just went thru this with my first pair- a pair of babies from the same clutch. The male would almost "mouth" the feathers on the female's back, sometimes pulling it (but mostly just... running it through his beak and making it SOGGY). They seem to have grown out of it all on their own so, nothing to contribute, really lol 🤷

@@Dobviews I'm aware, thank you though

They are called *Cobra chickens*, you plebian.

Same I'm starting a urban farm the chickens come in February 9th

@@msosick9975 Lucky. My chicks won't arive until late march

Geese are the best! Make sure you raise them yourself, an imprinted goose is the sweetest, most affectionate creature on the planet. More loyal than any dog, hands down.

I would happily watch a whole video of geese trying to eat apples!😂

Same here

I always smash my apples so they don’t chase them around and lose interest.

I would buy that T-shirt

Agreed!

I’d buy that!

@@MrsStevenBrown YES!!!!!’The first time i saw what they can do it really freaked me out!!!!

I would too.

....look here see... I’m the based bird around here ...

Every pasture needs a bouncer!

my goose will actually bite my roosters on the beak when they crow too much( we live in town and are NOT supposed to have roosters)

My alpha rooster has taken it upon himself to protect me from the feisty little bantam rooster. I appreciate his efforts, that little stinker will run 50 feet just to harass me!

​@@lilolmecj cut that bastard

They are related to dinosaurs after all

Because through grazing the geese are destroying the habitats and ecosystems of the other animals which is why they're going extinct

@@moket123 ok nerd 😎

Geese won't eat bugs or snakes or frogs. I guess you missed that. They are really strictly grass eaters. And they look at you with disdain if you try to get them to eat grain or something else. We have had to force ours to eat corn, and they are now OK with that but they are resentful. (In winter). Look up the backyard chickens forum on geese and you will hear universal stories of disgusted geese acting like we are trying to kill them by offering them something different. They are NOT omnivores.

@@whisperingsage no...geese DEFINITELY eat bugs..

Lol yes, it's what they're commonly referred to as on the internet. It comes from a story where this guy had a coworker who didn't speak English very well, and after getting attacked by a goose he didn't know the word for "goose", so he called it a cobra chicken 😂

@@WobblesandBean ahahaha poor guy. Although I'd have thought that "goose" would be a more commonly-used English word than "cobra" XD

@@catsidhe181 I dunno, that's just how the story goes. I would tend to agree, but even if it's fake, it's still hilarious 😂

@@WobblesandBean hahaha true true

That snake neck and quick reflexes makes cobra chicken most appropriate!! 😆

LOL have fun!

Praise the God-Goose.

Feels like the sort of thing Terry Pratchett would write

@@GrahamRomero Bless his late soul.

DUDE I WANNA PLAY THAT!! I always roll Beastmaster in DnD just so I can incorporate my ducks into the campaign 😂

You have never been attacked

Ya fuck that goose!

Lol my mom is a vet as well, it would be nothing to come home from school and find bald eagles, raptors, great horned and snowy owls, turkeys, and much more. About 99% of those were only at our house so the wild bird rescue could come pick them up as we live closer to them than where my moms clinic was, but we certainly have had a collection of misfit pets that mom has brought home over the years. Funny thing is next week is her last and is retiring Friday.

@@ryanschaff2507 it sounds like the profession is losing a great member!

But you won't have to mow the lawn ever again. They are great at that.

Can the geese fly away?

How did it go?

@@zedantXiang good. no geese or ducks, but the pasture is growing and we rotationally graze sheep and a few cattle

Toby Says break the fight up boys🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑

Yes that was a smooth move on Toby's part.

"The Lamentation of Bruce The Goose" The Trials and Tribs of thine own Triangular Beak Gabriel! Refuting my passage unto the heaven I seek. Alas I cannot scratch or flail with tooth and claw! My name is Bruce, possessing this triangle, Orange Maw. Peck! It Fumbles. BITE it tumbles. OH how my belly rumbles! I must taste thee, oh precious apple. But with these wings I cannot grapple. Alas this red sphere may be, to great for me... Wait! Honk! I'm Bruce! Honk! With this Conk this apple I Bonk! Honk! I have breached the skin! Today's my win. I feast upon this delicious goldy. Perhaps I will share with my friend Toby. (For fair use only by Gold Shaw Farms)

If geese could speak it would be an expletive filled tirade

Oh, no different than a human, in reality. They've got teeth on their bills and on their tongues... work together. VERY sharp, as Morgan will tell you.

@@rainwalker3515 ..Written no doubt while you're in a psychiatric hospital.

@@2eleven48 ?

LOL! Birds are funny that way. My duck HATES yellow with a passion. No idea why.

LOL! You should find the one where he zapped himself on the pasture electric fence, entering the bird compound.

@@rhondaalbrecht YES, but sadly Both of these were poorly choreographed :-( like it was sooo noticeable ...

I had that addiction once, until I realized I couldn't turn my birds into meat, then I had to force myself to stop. Otherwise, I'd be accused of being an animal hoarder. My geese are pets, and I use the eggs. That's it.

We we already making homestead videos when we found Mr. Morgan but he definitely does it with flare....Dumbledore flare! We will check out your channel and maybe we will see you at ours. 😁

@@vineyardchickshomestead I will definitely check out your channel!

@@LPeskoran I know what you mean... but it’s so addicting lol

I'm definitely going to follow you

I bet it was Justin

lol the geese were forcing him at gunpoint

Bruce has a hidden persona he has his personality that makes everyone feel sorry for him but he is secretly a mastermind holding Morgan at beak point

Justin Finch-Fletchley the king cobra chicken

me

I am dying to get some Shaw farm geese eggs for my daughter to hatch / raise on her homestead ... missed out on goose eggs this year 🤞🏼🤞🏼 I get in on some eggs for next year!

It warms you heart seeing someone make a living of off killing animals? Wow.

Larry David...bwahaha. So true

You've not fallen in love with geese, you've fallen in love with their dead bodies. If you loved them you wouldn't kill them

@@therockingvolbeat3630 This!! 👍

I'm in the .01% group, as I am with most other areas of my life. I just need to accept it.

750 000 people love geese!

Geese are fierce that's why I love them lol

percent of geese lovers is the same as the % of people who die of covid!

@@typarker4566 Covid is everywhere, why do you spread it here aswell, go doomscrolling somewhere else. Jez

What a great idea!

Restaurant ( Butchers and Catering companies) scraps are also EXCELLENT! Even in the current year and 2020, there are scraps to be found. Before the current global sh@t show my Flock kibble cost ( for around 25-35 chickens and now 9 Moscovys) about $25/month. With the lockdowns/ shutdowns it went to about $25/week. I have a few videos, but checkout the EdibleAcres channel and Karl Hammer for other examples.

Years ago, a lot of the restaurants were getting in trouble for that. Even if they knew it would go to pigs. i worked at an army mess hall and saw the huge amounts of leaves and produce waste and they told me I wasn't allowed to take scraps home. They said it was a law.

@@whisperingsage Those laws have been relaxed/repealed in many places. The details will need to be researched in each locale but the absurdity of the situation and the sheer quantity of the waste just got to be too much to ignore. Generally you need to be able to pick the produce up inside a specific time window on the day it is pulled, which often means every single day and the grocer will want you to take everything they pull every day which for even an average sized chain supermarket outlet can be more than most people can easily handle (think hundreds of pounds of mixed produce).

I love my geese but they are 2 legged locusts.

Yea

But I didn't want to comment that I am first as it's a useless comment.

@@swayam8458 you're a wise man

Thanks

What sort of geese so you raise?

It's a good name!

Actually , Gold Shaw Cobra Chickens.

Yea he editing clones 😆

Multiplicity

I laughed way to hard at the thought of being your neighbor and watching you put your geese to bed every night.

@@ryanschaff2507 that and having to listen to their hunger song when they see me coming. They sound like a very busy city street, with honks of many pitches!

You should never hold them that way for very long though, as it's difficult for them to breathe in that position. That's WHY they calm down, they're trying not to suffocate.

@@WobblesandBean I didn't actually know that, but that makes a lot of sense, thank you!

They were just so happy to see you!

birbs lol

Weird way to call suburbs

suburbs burbs birbs birds you live in the birds

Elizabeth Curran.....well, damn, those names must have tested your intelligence.

Stop🤐🤐🤐🤐🤐🤐🤐

Their weapons are not up to date sir.

Yeooooowwwww!

Yes thats what mine eat. They love it more than pellets.

Heartland Okie We tried making fodder and ferment both but it attracted a ton flies. Mom wouldnt let us keep it in the house so we gave up. It seems like a great idea though.

@@vineyardchickshomestead fermentation smells, that makes sense...

they are strictly herbivores. however, they have no problems killing anything small that moves

@@iHasCaek thanks!

Mine have never eaten bugs. They just don't do that. That's for the chickens.

I'm so sorry. I HATE mink! Awful things!

Oh it's OK we are going to get more chickens but I really liked my old ones