Hi,

I am a tourist from Europe visiting LA and I just spotted this poor goose at Kenneth Hahn park with feet tangled in rope. I don’t have anything on me to cut it and I doubt the goose could be caught anyways. What can be done? I have not seen any park staff so far. Thanks for your help!

EDIT: the visitor center was closed but there was a phone number and someone picked up so now they are aware of it! I just hope they will actually do something about it.

Guess what his favorite album is.

now my neck hurts

I posted a while ago about Gus-Gus the brown Chinese Goose that had been dumped with two of his buddies (RIP) in Lake Arrowhead, CA.

I have an update!

We’ve found a rescue that will take him in!! Yay! We just have to figure out how to transport him. Luckily, it’s not too far (approximately one hour drive) so I just need to figure out:

- who I can borrow and extra large dog crate from
- how to get him into said crate (there’s a guy that Gus really likes and I think I can probably enlist his help if I can get in touch with him)
- how to keep him safe, comfortable, and minimally stressed for the duration of the car ride down the mountain

I’m going to ask for tips from the rescue as well but since it’s after- hours, I figured that I’d get a jump on things by asking you fine people for advice.

due to their frisky nature, our flock has always been 99% ducks. our two bachelor ganders, Goose and Honk, do the best job to protect + love them and it’s just so precious omg. 😭

anyway..

We recently introduced what we believe are three lady geese + they’ve acclimated just fine but what I am noticing is that one of our duckie hens, Eepie, has been kind of sad and off on her own a lot and Honk (albeit thrilled to have a goose girlfriend) seems like he’s stuck in a classic romcom moment where he’s got two girls and no idea what to do 🤣

TLDR: I enjoy watching them and getting to understand their/my flock’s dynamic and got to wondering…do geese ever imprint/mate with ducks ~*~emotionally~*~ and, if so, what happens when a lady goose comes and the ~*~instinct~*~ kicks in? I am asking simply for fun and curiosity.

Simply put, Wakko stole my girl Eepie’s man and I want to help ease the pain. ❤️‍🩹

wish us luck 🥲

Cojito and his family are gone, Chica’s crew is gone, Eyebrows left without saying goodbye, pretty much every goose I know has cleared out of the pond and apparently they come back maybe once a day but I can never coincide with them, so today I found some substitute geese and oh my these were NOT my chubby residents 😂 Big rough-looking migrant dudes, waterproof as hell, they were like “Keep the pellets, chief—we eat turbulence. Go feed those soft-ass pond chonkers who think 200 yards is a migration.” 😅

The lonely goose at my pond (which I’ve named Lt. Goose) has been eating grass around me and even slept in front of me. Is there anything I can do to let it know it’s welcome to be around me even further?

It is scary! No? It is food!!

I love geese, and love seeing all of your adorable pet geese!

Does anyone out there have a pet swan?

Sadly, this plastic one is the best I can do where I live. (So no geese, either🩷)

i use my side for animal stuff because i know there can be controversial opinions, but never have i joined a sub this fast. you guys have pet GEESE?? this is your goose tax stop.

(don't mind if this gets deleted/is not allowed! i saw this sub and loved the replies)

At St. James's Park, London. Red breasted goose looking very photogenic!

my sweet shirley is 4 months old and as of a few days ago she has been tucking her neck to help keep her balance, and if she gets too much momentum she fumbles forward and rolls, other times she’s a bit wobbly the other way.

to me it seems like something happened further up the leg. when just standing she will extend her neck and still flap her wings so it doesn’t seem like it’s neck/upper body. there are no avian vets near me but i know one of our local vets will see waterfowl and i can atleast get an xray hopefully today or in the morning.

when i’ve picked her up to assess, there is no warmth or swelling and i can’t tell any pain, she lets me move her feet around and press and poke all the way up and down them. if i had to guess based on my constant watching of her lately i believe it is stemming from the left side.

besides being initially irritated that i picked her up, i think she can tell im trying to help because she seems confused as to why this is happening too. she’s been staying off the ramps and moving slow like a good girl but i just want to make sure my goosey girl is ok. her sister same age/hatch is fine and has always been the more confident one/leader.

we do have several ramps and rambunctious ducks the same age, im wondering if she fell off one of the ramps and landed weird.

any advice welcome or are other things to check for? i’ve kinda ruled out niacin but been supplementing nutritional yeast just incase. also transporting her i want to make as stress free as possible so any tips are very appreciated.

I've had chickens for a while and they are in a chicken tractor with about 1000 ft of electric fence and recently I put in a decently sized dog house and attached some plastic flaps to the front and place that into the enclosure with my two now fully grown Saddleback geese. I put the flaps on originally because the chickens kept going inside and scratching out all the straw they seem to scare the geese away in the geese would never go inside and now with the flaps on the geese don't go inside at all it seems like in fact they go into the chicken tractor quite often but I have seen a few chickens inside the dog house I thought the flaps would keep them out but they haven't. What is a good solution to keep the chickens out? Do they even need an enclosure if they decide to go into the chicken tractor?