Need Help With Canadian Geese Mess

DAP · Mar 10, 2004

I did note that Mike. I wasn't pointin fingers. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I can EASILY think of far worse problems to have though. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Them sons-a-guns are prolific though, aren't they?

The golf courses 'round here are at the wit's end!

I have some friends up at Cornell and for the most part, most are at a loss as to why their numbers are so very high. The don't have a lot of natural preditors (a red-tail will take a sick one, coyotes, feral dogs will take one now and then but expend a lotta energy, I know the crows and snappers will take their eggs, usually on a wet bank but ... ).

They are a robust species ... and I hear, don't taste so good. Maybe someone with some smarts will be able to invent a feasible collection and composting solution to sell goose goop.

Of course, my CEO readies a nest for em every year, so don't talk to me about it! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

TWINKLE_TOES · Mar 10, 2004

<font color="blue"> Does anyone have any experience with the floating decoys that mimic dead floating geese? </font>

Almost, I have dead (plastic) floating geese decoys that mimic live geese and after two years they have
failed to attract a single goose. With the number of hunters trying to attract them using decoys, they may
have learned to avoid lakes with decoys. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

PineRidge · Mar 10, 2004

Doug we really get them thick around here but oddly enough I seem to always see a lot more geese closer to town than out in the rural areas where I live. I really can't make a connection as to why.

RobertN · Mar 10, 2004

We have a bunch at the elementary school down the street. They like to hang out on the turf getting bugs and stuff. Things get brown here in the summer; they really like those green turfs.

In some states, you can get depravation tags. I know a person that had a retail nusery specializing in native plants primarily. Deer were really going at her plants. She got DFG to come out, and they issued tags. We shot a few, but DFG picked them up, we could not keep them. I do not know what they did with them.

Gomez · Mar 10, 2004

My lab doesn't know she's a Lab. She'll chase the geese to the edge of our pond as well. But there's NO WAY she's jumping in after them. She just plain doesn't like water. She'l tear after the geese and bark at them aa they jump into the pond.

The geese don't leave either, just honk there heads off while she's out there. Once she comes in the house, the geese go about there usual activities. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

We have some Mallards hanging out as well. They don't bother me much. I'd like to put up a barrier to prevent the geese, but let the ducks hang out.

slowzuki · Mar 10, 2004

It's odd they are protected in the US, in Canada people shoot them when in season. They are very greasy, and lately full of tumors. Can't be a good sign.
Ken

DAP · Mar 10, 2004

Its called the path of least resistence.

I gotta tell ya, my drive home from work rarely features a road that I don't see parts of a white tailed DOE splattered all over the place.

I believe that part of the problem is human intervention. That is ... a lot of people in my subrural area store, stock and dispense feed to attract the white tails to their subrural properties.

There's usually a guarantee that a road crossing take place in order for them to get the feed stands.

The same with pigeons and now the geese. Why suffer out in the brush and stream when John Q. is gonna give me Millbrook bread in the park!

Now, I'm not trying to start up a white tail flame, but if ya feed them, they will come. And when they come, they will die getting there, unless you've can provide the habitat that they have lost - and that taint too likely.

Millbrook Bread ... Tumors ... there may be a connection! /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

tc35dforme · Mar 10, 2004

Get some swans...that don't act too neighborly around each other.

Cliff_Johns · Mar 10, 2004

The gator should work. I used to work across from
a research facility that had a large water retention pond
in the back. Behind that was a highway. The goose problem
was so bad that the geese kept people traped in their cars
or wouldn't let them walk down the sidewalk without attacking
them during mating season.

They put in a couple gators to solve this problem. It worked
great! Then someone couldn't resist and stoped by the side
of the road and shot the gators (Inflatable).

So they filled the gators with foam and put them back out
on the pond. Eventually the police asked them to remove
the gators because too many people were stoping by the
side of the highway to shot the gators and they were worried
someone would get hurt.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

Cliff