Currently dealing with that. When they are very young that is definitely an issue.

At some point every farm animal will have a last best day. The sooner you recognize when that is and resolve it the better everyone’s mental health will be. It is is an unavoidable fact of farm life.

But if geese have proper night time protection and plenty of grass you can expect them to live 15 to 30 years problem free.

Goose advice?

She lived just over a year and was healthy until she wasn’t.

In 6 years we have had one sick goose. She was always too small for her breed. Not sure why she was sick.

This year was the first injury of a goose. They did something that cut up a foot. We treated it with some safe wash and they recovered just fine.

Injuries to me have been numerous. The boys like to attack me when I’m putting them to bed so I occasionally end up with welts and bruises. The girls occasionally give me a nice little buffeting with their wings when I’m trying to remove them from a nest so I can take away their eggs.

I am from the internet. I’m here to help.

Depending on the time of year they will dodge or attack me. So they are very interactive. My wife can pet them.

We got them because hawks were taking out chickens. After we got geese that stopped. In addition to being excellent guard animals they also mow the grass and in the spring they give us giant eggs.

After the initial cost to buy, raise for a month until they can be outside and their housing they can live entirely on grass making them practically free to maintain. Best farm investment ever.

They shrank everyone for a Tiny Desk Concert. Les liked it so much he refused to reverse the process.

I have geese. I am a goose farmer / caretaker / victim. Can confirm.

I had decades of tech experience including Linux administration. I now have a homestead with geese.

Primus

An army travels on its stomach. – Napoleon

Americans can sit still because from farm to table Hispanics/Latinos are how food travels to American stomachs. Even the best pizza shop I ever lived next to (run by Pakistanis) still depended on central and south American labor to get everything into their Italian kitchen.

Not enough Latinos/Hispanics.

We fed him wet food.

It’s cheaper to make more money off fewer people than it is to get a lot more people to make a little money off of.
Once someone decides to eat out you need to make it seem like they got their money’s worth. Feeding them more than they should eat gives the appearance of value. The alternative is expensive staff training, ingredients you can’t get from Sysco, or laundry service for table cloths and napkins. Better to pile a large portion on a plate than to step up quality.

Part of the expense is the size of the meal. It’s not uncommon for a sit down restaurant to offer up an entire day’s worth of calories on one plate. At one of our local places I ordered clams and pasta. When it was delivered I knew this had started out as a full pound of dry pasta. 1600 calories before figuring in sauce. And don’t forget the unlimited sugar refills on that soda. Would you like an appetizer or dessert?

Charlie does not approve of Kibo.

Nope. Too tiny to pose a threat.

This kid doesn’t even qualify as a pink belt. I’m used to extra spicy and this kid isn’t even mild.

I have a heating pad at use for birds. He is moving around and just destroyed some wet food.