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chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
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Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Mon Apr 11, 16 9:08 am Post subject: Chinese geese?
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

Posted: Mon Apr 11, 16 9:11 am Post subject:
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

Posted: Mon Apr 11, 16 2:39 pm Post subject:

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
Posts: 1467
Location: Somerset

Posted: Mon Apr 11, 16 5:00 pm Post subject:

Quote:

I impulse bought a pair yesterday.

nobody else has commented on this..?

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Mon Apr 11, 16 5:02 pm Post subject:
I've given up. Frankly I'm just relieved they're not ostriches or cassowaries.

NorthernMonkeyGirl

Joined: 10 Apr 2011
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Location: Peeping over your shoulder

Posted: Mon Apr 11, 16 7:53 pm Post subject:
There are some rheas a few villages along...

sean
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 16 7:57 pm Post subject:
There's got to be a market for duck-billed platypus hatching eggs?

NorthernMonkeyGirl

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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 16 8:25 pm Post subject:
Think they'd share a house with muscovies?

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Mon Apr 11, 16 10:08 pm Post subject:

NorthernMonkeyGirl wrote:

Think they'd share a house with muscovies?

Yes. It would be Chez's house.

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Mon Apr 11, 16 10:53 pm Post subject:
Don't they burrow? They won't need a house, you can keep them underneath something else.

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Tue Apr 12, 16 1:55 pm Post subject:

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
Posts: 9075
Location: South Wales

Posted: Tue Apr 12, 16 3:26 pm Post subject:

gythagirl wrote:

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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

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 16 3:38 pm Post subject:

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

Joined: 10 Apr 2011
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Location: Peeping over your shoulder

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 16 4:42 pm Post subject:
Darcy and Liz...

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
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Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Thu Apr 14, 16 7:16 am Post subject:
Coz they're in love. It's epic.

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