I kept offering food and he didn’t care. Just kept walking by my side for almost 10 minutes. Sweet baby.

Ryan Gosling and Birdie seem quite happy with their new mom!

From a couple weeks ago. This particular day I decided to not bring snacks with me because during a previous visit, this one was a little bread crazy and actually hissed at the vegetables I tried to give him. Then got mad at me because I tried to give him vegetables. He was mad at me for days over vegetables. Lately I can go visit without snacks and they will still come over to me and spend some time with me before returning to their family.

Also very funny that the only things I’ve seen them hiss at is vegetables and one creepy guy.

Hope you like my silly little guy too

Hey guys my aunt sent me this photo and this looks like an ABSURD amount of babies. Did they adopt..? Surely momma goose didn’t pump out 20+ of these cuties right?

I (46m) have somehow gotten paired with a gander (.8m) and I don't know what to do. In total, we have around 20 geese, mostly Chinese, but also a non-migratory Canadian, some snow and a metric ton of ducks. None of these dinosaurs have been hand-reared but are socialised to humans. There doesn't seem to be a shortage of available partners for those looking for love so I'm a bit curious as to why and how our youngest male has chosen me to pair. He doesn't mind if my wife is nearby but will fend off males of any species and female feathered folks.

He's attempted to mate on 3 occasions and shows signs of distress when I leave for work or head inside. Talking to him doesn't work. Redirecting is futile.

Just to be clear, all of them have the space, food, water and shelter to allow them free movement and express natural behaviours. This is a bit next level though. Any thoughts?

Got to my last destination today whilst doing my usual rounds and saw a pair of geese with 3 newborn babies, about 5 weeks after all the others had hatched theirs.

They came straight up to me, and it turns out One Eye Goose was always on his own because he had a missus that was nesting somewhere! He brought them straight to me to say hello, and let me give him lots of belly rubs as usual.

I posted about him recently after his exploits jumping up on the back of the bench I sit on to feed the gang. I don’t think he’ll be doing that again now that he has babies to look after.

I was so happy to see he had babies and a partner. He seemed so proud to show them off 😊

He has no sight in his left eye and sometimes his eye can be very foamy as you can see. I love him and now I will love his babies!

These jerks nested on my patio (she's adorable, but I hate him attacking my dog and I whenever we enter or leave). My patio is full sun and gets insanely hot during the day. I came home to see her doing what looks like panting and a Google search turned up that it's likely what she was doing.

I gave her a bowl of water because it is way too hot out there right now. The only reason I saw on Google of why not to give them water was that it could attract predators, but that's not an issue with where she built her nest.

Is this okay?

This gosling has been wandering outside my home and I left it alone in case its parents were nearby, but I haven’t seen any grown geese near it for a few hours now. Also wanted to check if it may be injured/contracted something due to it consistently moving in circles. If I am in Jacksonville, FL, who would be best to call? And is it okay for me to at least keep it safe until someone can pick it up?

quick update, we called the local animal control and checked with nearby houses and nobody wanted the goose. my friend has chickens and his dad has had geese before so we took it to his house and it is happy and safe. still needs a name so pls drop suggestions!

My friends and I ran into this goose in the woods of Connecticut rock climbing. it followed us around for hours and was very friendly. let us pick it up and cuddle and pet it. clearly domestic but we don't know what breed it is. any ideas?

A user told me you guys might enjoy this one!

I was doing some bird photography at the lake and crouched down to get some eye-level shots of some suspiciously friendly geese… and then this happened.

I bolted away and as soon as they saw my surrender they lifted their heads up and streched to their full height and honked together in victory.

A kind old man had a very friendly pet goose the other day at my Tractor Supply. I didn't know people kept them as pets, but the more you learn the better ^^

(Might be weirdly cropped but I didn't wanna post a random guy in the photo)

all it takes is some dried corn and you too can adopt a flock of small children

This is one of my chinese goose, he or she is is almost 7 months old, and some time ago it started to bite us (hard) and attack us. It also comes really close to you and if we touch it it starts doing this 🫣 He/she was the best goose of all of them, and the one that we most picked up since it was a baby. I have four and I know for sure one of them is a boy because he tries to mate one of my Kaki Campbell ducks, and I also know fore sure one of them is a girl, but I don't know what to think about this one. I imagine it's a gander 🤭 I still love it with my heart, even though it tries to eat me alive🤣

The daddy goose, his Mrs, and last year’s offspring left the area back on 24 July, and now they’re back! They look proper excited to see me. Welcome back, luv. ❤️

We had a mated pair of Chinese geese for over ten years. Last year we had no choice but to rescue a male Chinese goose that was dumped at a pond. My mated pair immediately accepted him and they became a flock although this rescued goose often spent most of his day with my duck flock. Recently, they’ve begun mating and the two males had one big fight and now my original male is super subservient, acting all shy and scared and stays by himself while the new male and my original female have hooked up and started mating. This original male looks so alone and depressed, his wife of over ten years basically broke up with him and bangs her new guy right in front of him. That’s him by the door while the female is standing beside the new goose. I know the answer is probably to get another female goose and I’d love to hear anyone’s experience with this.

I think I read that goslings need to get to the water soon after they hatch… will they need help to get out of the fire pit or can the parents help? And if they need help how can I help and not get attacked? The fire pit is a foot - foot and a half deep.