Geese

Geese have no teeth but a beak with a serrated edge that acts like teeth. While the edge works well with plants and soft insects it does not work well with popcorn. Do not feed them popcorn because they can choke.

If you want to feed your Canadas go the pet store and get them cracked corn. If they don't respond to that they will eat WHOLE WHEAT bread. BUT MAKE SURE YOU RIP THE SLICES INTO LITTLE PEA SIZED PIECES AND TOSS THEM INTO THE POND SO THEY ARE MOIST. Canadas eat very fast (they almost swallow their food) and smaller, wet pieces will swallow much easier than dry white bread and not cause the bird to choke.

If you do feed them, watch how fast they are eating the food and make sure they swallow it before you give them more.

They mainly eat fish you know like sea gulls they will eat anything but when you See any type of seagull you usually see them by water that's because they're catching fish or looking for fish.

it affects the world cause you are throwing it away and when you can recycling thing and make them new

I do not know for sure, but my hypothesis is yes, geese are color blind. Why? Ive sat in a field wearing Deer hunting orange camouflage, and was able to call in birds and kill them. The main reason why a flock will turn away is from movement, or glare from your face, skin, decoys, etc. I think that most people try to keep this fact hidden because people spend a lot of money on camouflage specialized for waterfowl hunting. When really they don't have to, but if people know this then they wont spend the money and the companys will go under!

I have experienced the opposite. After studying Canadas for the past 5 years I have seen on a number of occasions Canadas turn themselves and their flocks away from me when I am wearing brightly colored clothing, especially white or orange.

they are organized by names of each animal alphabetically i know i have 2 gaggles of geese in my apartment

The word "goose" refers to a female of the species, OR may be used as a generic reference to all geese.

On water or land its "gaggle" in flight its "skein".

Bar-headed geese are considered "super birds," They actually fly OVER Mt. Everetts during their migration to and from Tibet. They have a special type of hemoglobin that absorbs oxygen very quickly when the birds are at high altitudes; as a result, they can extract more oxygen from each breath of rarefied air than other birds can. Once their blood is stoked with oxygen, it rushes through capillaries that penetrate particularly deep into their muscles. Thus energized, their wings flap with seemingly inexhaustible vigor.

Other migratory birds, without the superior flapping, respiratory, and circulatory power of the bar-headed goose, fly closer to the ground. Most songbirds, for example, fly at between 500 and 2,000 feet, and most waterfowl stay between 200 and 4,000 feet.

Bar-headed geese are considered "super birds," They actually fly OVER Mt. Everetts during their migration to and from Tibet. They have a special type of hemoglobin that absorbs oxygen very quickly when the birds are at high altitudes; as a result, they can extract more oxygen from each breath of rarefied air than other birds can. Once their blood is stoked with oxygen, it rushes through capillaries that penetrate particularly deep into their muscles. Thus energized, their wings flap with seemingly inexhaustible vigor.

Other migratory birds, without the superior flapping, respiratory, and circulatory power of the bar-headed goose, fly closer to the ground. Most songbirds, for example, fly at between 500 and 2,000 feet, and most waterfowl stay between 200 and 4,000 feet.

The eggs can get cold, they can crack, they might not get fertilized... you name it.

The nene (also known as the Hawaiian goose) is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. These type of geese eat vegetation that is available to them.

it takes 12 eggs to make a dozen

A dozen eggs is the same as twelve eggs. If you have 12 eggs you formaly have a dozen. It takes 24 eggs to make a dozen two-egg omlettes. Depending on your recipe, it may take anywhere from 4 to 12 eggs to make a dozen glasses of eggnog.

Not really. One characteristic of all living birds is the lack of teeth. However, some birds have serrations on the edges of their bills which are sort-of tooth-like. Many geese do have these serrations to help them bite off the grass that they eat. Another bird usually described as having a "toothed" bill is the merganser (several species).

the best feed for all geese is straight corn. I get my corn from a local farmer and i get it cheaper then you will at a feed mill of your local hardware store. Any goose wiill grow very nice on corn

Generally birds follow the facetious advice often given to pilots -- "fly low and slow." Most cruise speeds are in the 20-to-30-mph range, with an eider duck having the fastest accurately clocked air speed of about 47 mph. During a chase, however, speeds increase; ducks, for example, can fly 60 mph or even faster, and it has been reported that a Peregrine Falcon can stoop at speeds of 200 mph (100 mph may be nearer the norm). Interestingly, there is little relationship between the size of a bird and how fast it flies. Both hummingbirds and geese can reach roughly the same maximum speeds. There is, of course, a considerable difference between the speed at which a bird can fly and the speed at which it normally does fly. When the bird is "around home" one might expect it to do one of two things, minimize its energy use per unit time, that is, minimize its metabolic rate, or minimize the distance it travels per unit of energy expended. A vulture loitering in the sky in search of prey might, like the pilot of an observation aircraft, maximize endurance; a seabird traveling to distant foraging grounds might, like a Concorde encountering headwinds on a transoceanic flight, maximize range. Staying up longest does not necessarily mean going farthest. A bird might be able to stay aloft 6 hours at 15 mph (maximum endurance, covering 90 miles) or 5 hours at 20 mph (maximum range, covering 100 miles). Birds can also choose to maximize speed, as when being chased by a predator or racing to defend a territory. Or they can choose some compromise between speed and range. In order to determine what birds normally do, Gary Schnell and Jenna Hellack of the University of Oklahoma used Doppler radar, a device similar to that used by police to catch speeders, to measure the ground speeds of a dozen species of seabirds (gulls, terns, and a skimmer) near their colony. They also measured wind speeds with an anemometer, and used those measurements to estimate the airspeeds of the birds. (The wind speeds were generally measured closer to the ground than the birds were, which led to some errors of estimation, since friction with the surface slows air movements near the ground.) Airspeeds were found to be mostly in the 10-to-40-mph range. The power requirements of each bird at each speed could be calculated, and that information was used to establish that the birds were generally compromising between maximizing their range and minimizing their metabolic rates with more emphasis on the former. Airspeeds varied a great deal, but near the minimum metabolic rate rather large changes in airspeed did not require dramatic rises in energy consumption. For example, a gull whose most efficient loiter airspeed was 22 mph could fly at anything between 15 and 28 mph without increasing its metabolic rate more than 15 percent. Most birds fly below 500 feet except during migration. There is no reason to expend the energy to go higher -- and there may be dangers, such as exposure to higher winds or to the sharp vision of hawks. When migrating, however, birds often do climb to relatively great heights, possibly to avoid dehydration in the warmer air near the ground. Migrating birds in the Caribbean are mostly observed around 10,000 feet, although some are found half and some twice that high. Generally long-distance migrants seem to start out at about 5,000 feet and then progressively climb to around 20,000 feet. Just like jet aircraft, the optimum cruise altitude of migrants increases as their "fuel" is used up and their weight declines. Vultures sometimes rise over 10,000 feet in order to scan larger areas for food (and to watch the behavior of distant vultures for clues to the location of a feast). Perhaps the most impressive altitude record is that of a flock of Whooper Swans which was seen on radar arriving over Northern Ireland on migration and was visually identified by an airline pilot at 29,000 feet. Birds can fly at altitudes that would be impossible for bats, since bird lungs can extract a larger fraction of oxygen from the air than can mammal lungs.

snow geese are white and have huge wing and webbed feet

Goose. Geese is the plural.

Yes, you can eat goose eggs. As with chicken eggs, just make sure you aren't cracking open a fertilized egg.

No. They are separate species, and species cannot interbreed.

Sadly no, the sperm would only fertilize those of it own species. Not the same exact species (brown duck with Europe duck would work) other wise weed have bunny mouse.

Yes! So long as there is balance. You do not want a herd of 50 sheep to one or two chickens, likewise you do not want a flock of 50 birds to one or two sheep. The important thing here is balance. Letting your chickens roam in your sheep pasture is a great way to keep flies down! The chickens scratch the dirt looking for weed seeds, grubs and bugs. Fly larvae hatches in fecal piles left behind by any livestock, including sheep. Chickens have no qualm picking the newly hatched larvae and eggs out and thus reducing your fly population. Also, the addition of nitrogen rich chicken poop will aid in faster decomposition of sheep or any other livestock manure with the added benefit of providing nitrogen to the pasture graze crop which helps it grow faster. Win win situation. Be aware though that, you want to look at what potential parasites the two might share and determine what you are going to do to prevent anything from contaminating the other. I personally let my chickens into my goat pastures--not terribly different from sheep. A parasite that chickens and goat share is Coccidia and I make sure that is is always in check.

A chicken's laying season is all year long, although may slow down in the winter time due to shorter days. If the hen lays enough eggs where she feels there are enough for a 'clutch', her laying will stop as she prepares to incubate and hatch her brood, which generally takes 21 days. After a few more weeks, she will start to lay eggs again.

With chickens and poultry you have two types of meat quality available. The white meat comes from the least muscled parts of the bird like the breast. You also have dark meat, which is the more heavily muscled parts of the bird and therefore has Myoglobin proteins that transfer greater amounts of oxygen. The dark meat of the chicken contains greater quantities of vitamins A, K, B6, niacin, folate, pantothenic acid along with minerals like selenium, phosphorus and zinc.