A local teacher rescued a damaged goose egg and 4 days later it hatched. They are hoping to place it on a farm and we'd be happy to take it except we have no fences and 10 free-range chickens. The chickens sleep in a coop at night- they walk in around 7pm every night. Can we add the goose? Make a separate coop for it? Will they get along? Will the goose stick around? I don't want to take it if it's unrealistic for it to survive.
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Young geese are very impressionable (and not terribly bright!), and while the chickens will be wary at first, a gosling is probably not big enough they'll be threatened. If you make sure there's more than enough food for the chickens and the goose, it's very likely they will get "used to each other" within a few days. The goose will probably grow up thinking it is a chicken!
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Go for it! I don't think you will have any problems at all. I see a house by my daughters school that has a yard full of chickens, turkeys, rabbits. All in the same area. Been that way for quite a while! I bet the goose will become an excellent "watch dog".
Geese and chickens usually have no issues being together.There is however one problem you may wish to watch out for.If the goose turns out to be a gander you need to be sure it does not try to breed a chicken.The reason is rather strange but water fowl have a penis where as a rooster does not.A water fowl type bird can kill or cause serious damage to a chicken if it breeds with it.
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