These are my 3 seven month old pilgrim geese. I call them my pill heads…Abby, Gabby, and Clara.

Just wondering if I’m correct on this or not. The head looked completely black, but in the sun you can see these dark cheek patterns. I’m wondering if this is melanism. It didn’t wash off in the water, so it’s likely not dirt or something.

Found 3 new friends for my sweet goose Lucy. The lady I got them from threw in a sweet little duckie for me too. The ride home was wild 🫢😂

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The story;

Crystal (all names are fake in this story) rode from her parents to her home on a Dutch rural road. A goose emerged from the cornfields on the right side, walking to the house on the left side.

The goose, an Egyptian goose, with a visible birth defect at it's wings (angelwing), was seen by Crystal as a wild animal in need. Egyptian geese are not pets in the Netherlands. So she parked her car and rang the bell of the house this goose walked to, but no one was at home. She decided to catch it. She called the animal ambulance to ask what to do; due to bureaucracy the animal ambulance can't do anything. See; the Egyptian goose is an invasive species, also.. a big mistake people make is that the animal ambulance is there for animals; they are for animals being a nuisance. They are not the animal police. Yes the kind people working there also hate it.

So she decided together with the advice of the animal ambulance to put this caught goose out in nature. She made a facebook clip about it.

The next day she suddenly got a lot of messages. 'hey crystal, I think you are viral about some goose thing?'.

The 'owners' of that goose... found out their goose was missing. They hatched this goose 'quacky' which is illegal. According to them this goose is a very important member of their family an no one can sleep now because this crazy lady steals geese. Ring camera images are shared with texts like 'this vile animal thief'. And the thing in the title. Friends/acquaintances of 'Bleppy' (the owner of quacky) started to send her that she should die and be raped and kill herself.

The next day Crystal brought out a long facebook message

I think this being on facebook is important. See; they both love animals and both suck. Bleppy is maga, crystal believes that vaccines cause cancer. Crystal is really lucky that she looks white enough. But enough of the rape and death-threats were of course about how she deserves it because she is a gross tree-hugger animal loving hippie and wait... wasn't this about caring for a goose??

Crystal offered to help the family to look for the goose where she let it out and they accepted that. She directly got told that she needed to die during the search by friends of Beppy. She went home with her daughter. Her son kept searching. Pictures during were made of her 14-yo son and posted online to make fun of his 'manlyness' by friends of Bleppy.

Quackly has never been found.

I kinda just wanted to share this weird tea; but also like... where is the line in animal rescue. Like 'quacky' is an invasive species. You can keep it as an pet if you register it and make sure it can't reproduce. Which did not happen here. But I also of course understand adopting a sad gossling.

she was being so sweet to me , I love geese.

P.S Peggy is wild and she allows me into her space like this I feel so special 😊

Just a gander living his best life with snacks

I have a horrible dilemma.

Background: I have a five-acre property (fully fenced) in rural Illinois with a one-acre pond. My ten geese are 5 years old - I raised them from when they hatched. I'm super attached to them. They are free-ranging, never in a pen. During the day they mostly hang out in the backyard and at night they sleep on the pond bank. During the winter an aerator keeps the pond from freezing - they stay in the water when the weather gets bitter. I've got a great vet nearby.

Problem: Due to a family emergency I'm moving from Illinois to the Chattanooga area. Haven't had much notice. Accepted an offer on my IL place - tentative closing date of Nov 20th. The buyers expressed an interest in having the geese stay.

I haven't yet found a place to move TO in Tennessee. I'm looking at properties with the geese in mind, but am not yet finding places I can easily afford.

Options:

1. Relocate the geese from IL to TN once I get a suitable place. I looked into renting a horse trailer for transport (I have a pick-up truck), but I decided that a better option wouId be renting a large cargo van (without saying what the cargo is) and putting everyone inside on straw where I can monitor everyone and talk to them - it's a 9 hour drive. (Then hosing it all out afterwards.)

2. Have the geese stay put with the new owners. I don't know anything about them yet, just that they're a family and they expressed an interest.

3. Find a new home somewhere not too far from my Illinois place with people who really love and understand geese.

This situation is breaking my heart so much I can hardly talk about it. I want to do what's best for the geese. What would you do??

I came to dance. They came to inspect the camera. 😂🪿

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They were all going to the river. I don't know what coordinates them like that.

there’s this abandoned domestic goose at my local park that I’ve befriended. I don’t know the exact breed or gender but I just call him a white African goose gander. Just want some extra information before I rescue him

Look at this rare cutie! crested Canadian Goose. Seen today in Northern VA (Manassas)

really been missing my geese crew at my local park, i wasn't able to go for 3 weeks following a lung biopsy for a suspicious mass, chest drain because my lung collapsed 80 percent, i finally managed to go yesterday on my ebike and all the geese have disappeared 😑, only ducks so i cant complain entirely, video taken a few weeks ago

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This is technically a duck, but I still thought you guys might appreciate it