Not answering your question but following on from it, is it possible to keep two or three pairs together? I'm hoping to breed from my pair this year and would like to keep some of the offspring so I have two or three breeding pairs. My plan was to swap around some of the youngsters with other breeders so siblings weren't breeding but keep my current breeding pair as well i.e. I'd rather not have my existing gander breeding with all the geese because some will be his daughters. If they're equally balanced male/female, will they co-exist OK? I know it doesn't work for cockerels/drakes at those ratios but I've a more romantic view of geese - and my pair is very in love!
H