Geese....

What is the General consensus on how to get a dozen Geese to "move on"..???

About ready to pepper them with some Lead..(.17 Cal. Lead..)..

Getting rid of more Groundhogs and Muskrats..might as well do the "hat Trick" and work on them too..

Ron..

My Australian Shepherd will not let them land anywhere on the farm. Watches a flock fly over and goes to the top of the hill by the barn. If they fly over, they are fine, but if they land he goes after them. They seem to have gotten the message.

Have a neighbor with a fenced in pond and 2 border collies. The border collies will not let them come on land to nest and they soon leave.

Gene

Wish I knew also, I had the geese for a while and chased them with the 4 wheeler and they would take off and then land right behind me again, but lately they have sort of moved on so now we are down to turkeys-dear and pheasants and now the river going up so maybe we will flush them all out

The geese seem to do the most damage, however the deer are right up with them, fence and some odorous material like old highly perfumed soap, moth balls solve that problem around the garden.

Geese are unreal here, they are not native, yet 30 of em reside in our 20 acre pond, they brood their young and turn into destructive grazing monsters immediately. They nip all the corn, can really clean off the tops of oats in short order, but with some harassment, not much damage is really done, unless you do nothing to keep after em. Cat & mouse, you shoot, they leave, they come back, hide behind a knoll, you find em again, shoot, they leave, harass, take and capture their young, hold em up and make em really mad, thinking that will keep em out, nope, best thing is to wipe a bunch out, take the breast meat if so inclined or leave em, coyote, fox and what have you will come in and be around, they get some at night, but they still show up.

I have never found a way to rid them, never been able to oil the eggs when it needs to be done, not sure about scarecrow and enemy decoys, they get used to everything, I've shot one and left it in plain sight, that does not work either.

What gets me is they will reside in a fallow field, with little grazing, maybe cause its open, not high grasses, weeds, same part of that field where I plant forage for deer, it was mold board plowed and not even disc'd, they are right in that area, once they wiped out a clover patch, years back, that started the war, NYSDEC depradation permits etc. The sight of them in any planted field makes you sick, they have the complete run of 30 acres of corn adjacent to the pond this year and have nipped the tops, but I don't think it will amount to much as the corn seems to be ok with it at the 4 leaf stage which is where its at, they are getting ready to spray soon.

PS, I have a .22 WMR dedicated to their cause, little more wallop than the .17, but that .17 like my friend has in a savage with real tight groups makes a head shot real easy, darned things are just relentless around here, was great when we did not have them, and rarely saw them in the sky, in the fall thousands of them pass through.

I found out, almost, the hard way it is a federal ofense to shoot them. Something about being a migrant bird that crosses state lines. But I found they hate noise so if you shoot your 12 ga, not at them, but maybe around them a few times they will find somewhere else to hang out.

Dogs or pigs are probably the most legal way to discourage their residence. They tend not to want to land if there're things living there that tend to want to eat them. The trick is you have to be preemptive if they land and set up housekeeping the tree huggers can do everything short of deeding you land over to them, but if they never land no harm no foul.

Happened to me like that too. Were returning home to the northland and needed some chow. Worked over my wheat patch for a couple of days and left.

Funny when you are hunting them, no where is sight and spook at the slightest motion.

These guys would just circle the patch at about 50' till I gave up and left, landed and resumed their activities.

Mark

Local town has bought 2 propane cannons to one area where the geese have gotten bad. There has been more wrecks in this one area where they cross with there young in the last year than there were in the rest of the county last year. Seems to be working for now, but Im sure they will be back.

Can"t shoot a two-legged migrant crossing State lines, invading your property?

Last friday night the Air evac helocopter was making a flight from Hardinsburg Ky to a hospital in Evanville Iniana with a patent. It was about 10 oclock at night and about 5 miles out of Hardinsburg they hit a goose causing an emergency landing. Fortunately no one was injured but the windshield was broken.

There are getting to be large flocks of geese in the area that no longer migrate with the seasons. They have become pests to agriculture and hazzards to navigation but anyone dare not get caught killing them.

The old saying, not having the sense God gave a goose still applies, people become better educated but have less common sense. Joe

No offense to you people of INDIANA, my fingers don't always do what my brain tells them to do.
Joe

Call your state dnr or dec whatever you call it. Here in NY resident geese are considered and Invasive Species and are not migrant birds. I have a permit that allows me to shoot them. When geese start dying the others start to disappear

Deer=rats with antlers.

Geese=rats with feathers.

I will say that the geese aren't too troublesome if you don't have a pond around.

KEH

Let the grass grow around the pound, they do not like tall grass. (it gives the coyotes some place to hide.)

The HMR .17 I have is much better at Dropping groundhogs, since I Square-Off the plastic tip..about 3/64" Flat tip..

These geese have NO fear of a 12 gauge..may jump a foot, then go back to grazing..

Poison some "Seed Corn"..???