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[Moon888]

Because in the summer, they cost almost zero to feed. They eat almost 100% lawn grass, so keep the lawn perfectly trimmed. They are good at edging.

Also, they are so large that once full sized, I haven't had any deaths even when I free range them.

Last time I had them, I slaughtered them all once fall came.

This year I wanted to keep a breeding set.... so I am over-wintering them. The food cost, now that all grass is gone, is HORRIFIC!

Also, they are pretty cold hardy, which is nice.

Thank you, you must have a large property with paddocks? It would be good to have some here, but they will get into my garden (I'm an avid gardener), and devastate it. The wallabies are eating my new plants, and this is a worry!

 

[Finnie]

Hi Alaskan, would you please tell me why you keep geese? I guess they will chase foxes away : ) : ) : ) They are so healthy looking and "happy" goosies!

Foxes will kill and eat geese. Do you have foxes in Australia?

 

[Show Sebright]

Boots running to go get dinner.

 

[Show Sebright]

Best snacks are hay- Frosty

 

[Show Sebright]

Always look both ways! Even during a hurricane.

 

[Moon888]

Yes, foxes, dingos, wild dogs and domenstic dogs (who are after the kill)

 

[Alaskan]

Thank you, you must have a large property with paddocks? It would be good to have some here, but they will get into my garden (I'm an avid gardener), and devastate it. The wallabies are eating my new plants, and this is a worry!

They prefer lawn. I actually do not think that they will eat tall grasses.

Mine stayed on my lawn all summer, no fence. They had no desire to leave the lawn, since around my house is the lawn, and then gravel parking and drive, and native brush/weeds.

I do have a flower garden by my front door. Only once the lawn started to slow down, did they then eat my gooseberries, and my nasturtiums. They truly loved the nasturtiums. Once they tasted the nasturtiums, they ate them to nothing. I fenced the raspberries before they ate those.

They didn't touch the other plants in the flower bed.

In the past, when I had free ranging goats, the goats also left the flowers alone. The goats on occasion would trim my chives. They never killed them.

the main flowers (that I can think of at the moment)are Forget-me-nots, chives, yarrow, columbine, Jacob's ladder, ajuga, english daisies and geraniums.

Oh! I also had some cabbage in pots .... they ate a few of the lower leaves, but left me the centers!

Odd geese!