Originally Posted By: N.TexasHalfAcre
Everyone keeps talking about big messes that Canadian Geese make. I know they apparently poop a lot but we have at least two geese on our pond every day and haven't seen any mess. They haven't gotten brave enough to come up to the house yet. I am sure they could make a mess there. Why else do people have such a disdain for geese?


My view after letting two pairs of geese stay on our pond last spring, FWIW�.

You�re right that 2 geese don�t make a big mess�for now�..

If the geese decide your pond is a nice place to raise babies, in a few weeks momma goose will come proudly walking out of the bushes with 6 or 8 or more cute little babies. You now have 8 to 10 or more full time geese for the next few months. During this time, the parents will molt and cover your pond will discarded feathers. When those babies are full grown (doesn't take long), momma will teach them to fly but your pond will always be home base for the rest of the year until ice over. Geese live about 20 years and will return to where they successfully raised a brood the year before. The babies, with their new mates, will return to the BOW where they learned to fly to raise their babies. An adult goose poops 1lb+ per day, either on your shore or in the pond. So after 2 years or more, how many geese you got pooping in and around your pond?

And then there are the visitors. When geese see other geese safely grazing a nice lawn, they drop by to visit and poop too!

Last edited by Bill D.; 03/22/17 06:40 PM. Reason: Clarification
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