JMG91
Veteran Member
This evening I went out to lock the run up, and as I step out the back door, I hear this loud hissing. When I shined the flashlight at the run, I saw something fairly large--that clearly wasn't a goose--skitter across the front, INSIDE the wire. Got closer and realized that it was a MASSIVE opossum! I run in there expecting a massacre, only to realize that the hissing is coming from the geese, who all have the opossum cornered in the front part of the run like a pack of hungry hyenas!
That thing was crapping its drawers trying to get out of there! Here I was, thinking the worst, and instead, the hunter had become the hunted. There was a bunch of feathers off of one of the chickens--not sure which one--but the geese must've grabbed the opossum before it could kill the bird. Everyone was nestled in the coop, with the geese surrounding the offender in the opposite corner. I'm still laughing about it. I know I complain a lot about the geese's bad attitudes, but I think they made up for it tonight. If they hadn't been in there, I'd have probably lost at least half my flock.
So, the answer to whether or not geese make good protection animals is: YES.
That thing was crapping its drawers trying to get out of there! Here I was, thinking the worst, and instead, the hunter had become the hunted. There was a bunch of feathers off of one of the chickens--not sure which one--but the geese must've grabbed the opossum before it could kill the bird. Everyone was nestled in the coop, with the geese surrounding the offender in the opposite corner. I'm still laughing about it. I know I complain a lot about the geese's bad attitudes, but I think they made up for it tonight. If they hadn't been in there, I'd have probably lost at least half my flock.
So, the answer to whether or not geese make good protection animals is: YES.