[escapedtothecountry]

Thanks for all your comments - all very helpful and some very amusing too. I still can't get over the cheek of the chap.... it takes all sorts.

[hughesy]

Wow! Geese on magic mushrooms I would like to see

[Lesley Silvester]

I could understand someone doing it if he thought it was open land, but to climb over a fence suggests he knew he shouldn't have been there.  I would have been angry to, ETTC

[SallyintNorth]

same with geese, unlike dogs they can't really do much but boy do they sound as if they can! best outdoor burglar alarms.

Only in daylight, though?

[Penninehillbilly]

Even when they are fastened in, we hear them squawking during the night, they have good hearing as well.
One morning something had tried to get to the hens (they were OK), OH said he'd heard the geese clamouring and hadn't thought to mention it.
Could always make a weldmesh run+shelter to protect them from nasties at night?
That is actually giving ME ideas about resiting their housing, and making a safe outdoor run for them near the house. hmmmm . there has been 'overnight problems' locally this last year or so.
 
 

[robbiegrant]

They'd scare me off, that's for sure.  One chased me when I was four and I've never forgotten the fear.   

As a teenager we used to have to sneak past a farm, if the dogs heard or saw us they would come chasing up out of the yard on to the track, barking ferocously, one was a big gingerish alsation, I would usually be away in time, one day I knew it was too close, just stopped, turned to face it, I thought I was dead. the dog stopped, backed away then came slowly forward. I patted it. Lesson learned. same with geese, unlike dogs they can't really do much but boy do they sound as if they can! best outdoor burglar alarms.
Come to think of it, I've never seen a mushroom where the geese roam, so it may solve the problem on 2 counts. unless they are the magic mushrooms, who knows what effect they wuld have on geese  .

When I was a kid, before i went off to school in the morning one of my duties was to feed our geese. One bucket of mash/grain/or whatever, one bucket of water and an empty one to put over "Duncan" our ( ferocious ) ganders head.  He would just stand still in a rather confused state. Everytime. 

[Penninehillbilly]

The only ones that scare me are geese with goslings!
 
And. we once took a gander away to another site, while I introduced another goose to make a trio, I went to get fresh food and water for him, reached in with the dishes and had my hand well and truly 'worried', hadn't realised idiot boyfriend at the time had been teasing him.  Had a bad & bruised hand for a long time.  (at idiot BF)

[Lesley Silvester]

Your ex boyfriend ought to be shut in with a load of geese.   

[Penninehillbilly]

Your ex boyfriend ought to be shut in with a load of geese.   

Long Gone (took him to where I used to live near New Deer, he bought a place up there, I didn't go with him) stayed in peace with my goats and geese 

[Lesley Silvester]

Good for you.