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No, it's simply aggression . Be glad they aren't geese.Originally Posted by bbomber
stop biting me
I know.... another backyard duck loving person. Refresh my memory please. I have 2 pekin ducks that are drakes. I've encountered the agressive behavior before.
My bigbeak either really loves or hates me. Greenhead will sometimes attack bigbeak for attacking me. Is it love??? Shoutout to Patrick and Goosedragon.....
No, it's simply aggression . Be glad they aren't geese.
We had China Geese
And they do BITE. After they attacked our daughter-in-law we took them to Evy. Evy was our salvation...with Call Ducks and Geese.
Now we have Silkie Chickens.
lol! I have to watch my back around my African gander. Literally. If I bend over to get a bucket or whatever, sometimes he'll give my butt cheek a nip. When I turn around to yell at him, he's already half across the pen looking like he didn't do it.
Isn't it funny how they can look so innocent? I finally broke my gander of that little game by standing with my back to the sun and watching his shadow, Just before he was about to goose me I would turn on him and grab his neck if I could. the surprise was on him and he didn't like it so much.lol! I have to watch my back around my African gander. Literally. If I bend over to get a bucket or whatever, sometimes he'll give my butt cheek a nip. When I turn around to yell at him, he's already half across the pen looking like he didn't do it.
I agree with Evy it is just plain old aggression on the drake's part if you let bigbeak get away with it he'll never quit.
Yeah, like they "think" we don't know who did it!
Seriously, though, I think that that kind of aggression is a bit different than full-out "alpha" dominance. Other ganders I've had or known who were an alpha would just come right at whoever or whatever he considered to be subordinate to him. For example, my African will just up and nip at one of my old khaki Campbell drakes if the drake gets too close, and he drives the drake away -- doesn't run away himself. With me, it's more "passive aggressive" like he "knows" he's actually my subordinate but he hasn't given up trying to turn the tables.
I used to have a silver Sebright bantam rooster who would "cold-cock" me in the head (he'd get up on a coop at my head height) when my back was turned. Same thing. They are subordinates trying to move up in the pecking order. They don't have the cajones to attack straight-on when you're looking.
If shoutout is code for "Tell me to grow up and start thinking of them as birds, and not little cartoon characters", there you go.
Reminds me of a rooster I could play Red Light, Green Light with.
heh! The Sebright used to do that with me, too. I'd see him across the barn. Then next time I looked, he'd be, like, 6' away. Then I'd turn again and he'd be just next to the small brood-hen coop in the barn. Then I'd get smacked in the head from the top of said coop. Then he would take off full speed to the end of the barn and start again!
Good thing he'd scoot, because if I'd nabbed him in the act, I'da drop-kicked him across the barn.
Patrick... @#$%^&*()_#$%^& !!! Are you for real? I was half *** kidding..... Chill out.
Yeah, what's wrong with you Patrick? Of course his ducks love him.
Breath slowly and count to 10.....
Goosedragon ,that's pretty much what I needed to know. I have disciplined bigbeak but I didn't know if he would comprehend this. Thanks bb
I just wanted to add ....,Goosedragon..you HAVE become a gentler and kinder person. bb
If I ever went to a date site for animal lovers..would you be there?? By the way I'm a girl.
I think of you as a little cartoon character, geese bite cartoons don't.
Say it isn't so! The difference is I have found some political blogs and am pretty much out of flame by the time I get around to TPC.
I also thought of you as a cartoon character,thus the name (goosedragon). Hoping these are terms of endearment. bb
cartoon character who can type? I used to have a goose who thought she could type but she couldn't spell
Oh, this has gotten so funny. You are all living, breathing, walking, talking cartoon characters. I had a pair of Toulouse geese that I got after they were grown. They would run, honking with necks outstretched as if they were going to attack everyone but me. I would catch them when they behaved that way toward me and hold them while petting their necks and talking softly to them. After being caught a few times the decided not to bother me.
I got a pair of brown Chinese Snow Geese last spring as goslings. I kept them in a box in the pantry at night for about a month until I had my barn secure from predators. I would herd them in at night and out in the morning. I had to catch them to put in or take out of the box. I would pet them and talk to them. Then I went OOT for 3 weeks and had no one to care for them so I took them in a box in my pickup and kept them in my camper at night to keep them safe from coyotes and owls. With all this personal attention both of them became real pets. They follow me around the yard, come to me when I am sitting in a chair and allow me to pick them up. They get involved in what ever I am doing, talking to me like they were asking questions or giving advice, pecking and "helping." The goose likes the handling better than the gander does. She will follow me and honk at times until I pick her up, pet her neck and talk to her. My gander got stolen (upright walking predator) and my goose lost lots of weight and I was afraid she was going to die. I started spending lots of time with her several times during the day and would go to the door and talk to her every time I heard her honking. She started eating at night when I went to the barn to pen her up and then began to gain weight. She seams contented hanging out with the silky rooster and no longer stands on the high point of the yard calling and calling for the gander as she had been doing.
I was rarely bitten by the Toulouse and only when I was holding them. They did bite others who got to close. On the rare times I was bitten by the Chinese Snow geese was when they were nibbling my clothes and got me through them. Yelling "ouch" resulted in the Chinese giving me a "Oops" look.
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