My American Buff Geese and Chinese geese are almost a year old now and really beginning to terrorize the farm. I think they will have to be confined to one of the cow pastures. No more free ranging for them. I think it's getting to be breeding season and since it's the first year they have not paired up with the girls yet and are trying to show off.

So far we have had one fight club. With the two biggest geese fighting each other will the others stand around shouting fight. The dogs let me know when that was going on because they knew that wasn't allowed. 

Since then in retaliation for being told on they are goosing the dogs every chance they get. I see them going way out of their way to goose the dogs. It's become a battle zone. The geese were always the farm thugs, but at least before they weren't going out of their way to annoy the other members of the farm. Right now they are always ready to start a fight.

Interestingly enough Big Bertha (the LARGE white Orpington) can still chase the geese away from their feed in the mornings.

I think it's just time to lock them up. We are still talking about free ranging over half an acre, but just not all 20 acres. The rule out here is that everyone has to get along and right now the Geese are not following that rule.