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chez



Joined: 13 Aug 2006
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Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset
PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 16 9:08 am    Post subject: Chinese geese? Reply with quote
    

Does anyone have any experience of Chinese geese? I impulse bought a pair yesterday. They seem very even tempered and he has already taken possession of the two muscovy ducks I have penned them with. I understand that muscovies are cross-fertile with both ducks and geese and I'm hoping to get some edible offspring.

mousjoos



Joined: 05 Jun 2006
Posts: 1986
Location: VERY Sunny SW France
PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 16 9:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Chinese geese are supposedly the most loyal

They can be very noisy...mine certainly are

They (mine) are not agressive even in the mating season & do like to boss the others about, even when technically not in charge

I like them, but they can be a bit ugly imho

Mine are good layers too

hots



Joined: 23 Sep 2010
Posts: 397
Location: Suffolk
PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 16 2:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

We inherited 6 of them from the in-laws when we moved here.
We re-homed 4 of them as the scenario of two bare-footed toddlers and all that goose poo was not attractive.
The 2 we kept were brothers and had the most delightful temperament of any goose we've ever had, (which is not saying much), they lived until well into their late twenties when one of them got so old and slow that a fox grabbed it and the other passed away with a broken heart a week later.
It literally put it's head down and gave up.

They were lovely creatures, very possessive of any ducklings and quite gentle.

Angels compared to the 2 farmyard buggers we've got now who like nothing better than to sneak up from behind and grab a beakful of thigh flesh and twist it viciously.

gythagirl



Joined: 18 Feb 2010
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 16 5:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Quote:
I impulse bought a pair yesterday.


nobody else has commented on this..?

sean
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 16 5:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I've given up. Frankly I'm just relieved they're not ostriches or cassowaries.

NorthernMonkeyGirl



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 16 7:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

There are some rheas a few villages along...

sean
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 16 7:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

There's got to be a market for duck-billed platypus hatching eggs?

NorthernMonkeyGirl



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 16 8:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Think they'd share a house with muscovies?

Nick



Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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Location: Hereford
PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 16 10:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

NorthernMonkeyGirl wrote:
Think they'd share a house with muscovies?


Yes. It would be Chez's house.

wellington womble



Joined: 08 Nov 2004
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Location: East Midlands
PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 16 10:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Don't they burrow? They won't need a house, you can keep them underneath something else.

chez



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Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset
PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 16 1:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

wellington womble wrote:
Don't they burrow? They won't need a house, you can keep them underneath something else.


See, it's all about closing the permaculture loop

They have decided they want to live with the khaki campbells. We are going along with it because it means we can see them out of the kitchen window. We've named them.

Shan



Joined: 13 Jan 2009
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Location: South Wales
PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 16 3:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

gythagirl wrote:
Quote:
I impulse bought a pair yesterday.


nobody else has commented on this..?


Par for the course with Chez...

hots



Joined: 23 Sep 2010
Posts: 397
Location: Suffolk
PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 16 3:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Chez wrote:
wellington womble wrote:
Don't they burrow? They won't need a house, you can keep them underneath something else.


See, it's all about closing the permaculture loop

They have decided they want to live with the khaki campbells. We are going along with it because it means we can see them out of the kitchen window. We've named them.



And the names are??

Ours were Geoff and Godfrey.

NorthernMonkeyGirl



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 16 4:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Darcy and Liz...

chez



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 16 7:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Coz they're in love. It's epic.

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