to be afraid of my gander😱

[Tinkerbell456]

Anyone own a gander? We have six geese that we got at the age of around 12 months about a year ago. Unknowingly one turned out to be a gander. So they are now about two, and being spring, here in Oz it’s their first breeding season. Well, the girls are nesting and he’s very aggressive. Does it stop after breeding season? Any remedies that don’t involve roast potato’s and stuffing?

I've been chased by geese, really scary. I'd steer well clear until mating season over.

They are evil and if they get you it really fucking hurts. I had a bruise the size of my fist on my leg.

Looking good for Christmas dinner isn’t he?

I would be scared too! YANBU

They say that God let the Devil create two animals...

He made geese and wasps.

I am cracking up with this thread!😂😂😂

I grew up with geese and was ducking terrified of them!!

Come to think of it, there is a great deal of Satanic hissing etc whenever I am a big enough bitch to feed them. On the other hand, I can understand hating a woman who nicks your children and makes cupcakes out of them!

We had ‘attack geese’ at our stables for years. Untrained of course (can you train a goose???) they tolerated the staff and owners but we’re pretty good deterrents to thieves, we only got hit once by saddlery burgers and they didn’t get much thank goodness, others locally lost thousands. Ours were all girls but still v stroppy.

I have chickens now, you wouldn’t think they’d ever be scary but we’ve had one or two nasty ones!

Hope he’s tasty... 🍗🍗🍗🍗🍗🍗

I thought you had misspelled 'genre's and have just wasted 5 minutes thinking of witty responses that I can't use...

Burglars! Sorry, definitely no burger thieves!

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The farm next door had geese when I was growing up. I have nightmares of the day the feathered fiends escaped and got into our garden.

Definitely a candidate for Christmas dinner!

And in a twist of irony I misspelled gender

They can be right knobs! Sometimes if you stand really tall, raise your arm & then bend your hand at a right angle over them it can make them back off. Their short term memory isn’t great though so you have to do it each time. Or just have him for Christmas lunch

I was told years ago that you have to grab it's neck if it goes to bite you to get it to back off.

I did this instinctively once when one came up behind me, stuck its head up my culotte shorts, and bit me on the bum!

It bloody hurt!. I grabbed it by the neck and flung it (and I hope all the other geese were laughing at it). It did leave me alone after that.

Artichoke Aardvark, he may end up being the guest of honour. The one everyone is happy to see! That would be a novelty for Hissy-folk happy to see him! Posthumous as the honour may be! Muahahahaha!

I am too Spamchoidfroid.

We have them at the end of our garden which is next to a canal.

Oh my, the fuss and bother if we dare to walk to the end of the garden and they happen to be hanging around. They had goslings this year and it's ramped up about 10 notches.

When I was growing up next to a farm we used to walk through the farmyard to get to the beach. Farmer had attack geese. They were pretty serious - once put farmer's mum in hospital. I used to take a big black umbrella to the beach as I found that if you flap it at them they think it's a bigger bird and back off. My dad always favoured the "grab them by the neck" technique but I was usually running away!

When I was a little girl, we had to drive past a bonded warehouse full of whisky on the way to visit my grandparents. Every single time we passed, somebody would comment that it was guarded by geese and all the passengers would be on the alert hoping to spot some.

As to why you keep them - eggs? Guard duties?

My nan's dog was murdered by her gander. He bit the poor little fella's leg, which then got infected and ended up killing him .

She got rid of the geese after that.

A friend's mother used to have geese when I was at school. A croquet mallet was kept by the back door for self defense when entering the garden.

That might be the most middle class thing I've ever heard

Hm... Have contemplated keeping geese at my field as I remember them being scary fuckers, but now I'm worried they'll scare my Rottweilers... 🤣

My other massive fear is opening my front door one morning to a massive number of future feathery bastards.

My friends used to keep the geese free range on the farm to scare people off. I was more terrified of the bloody geese than I was of the farm bull.

Carving into a lovely fat goose at Christmas is revenge as well as greed.