Time for Open-Season

[profdsny]

On geese. Can you imagine how terrible that plane crash yesterday could have been? They are more untouchable than cows in India. It's time that the be severely reduced in population. Who's with me?

 

[Pooh's Pixie]

Yes, but what do you do? They already try to keep them away from airports, but they FLY so they can be anywhere!

Survival of the fittest...

 

[edwardsfire]

Poison them.

 

[okeydokey]

Hunt them? Destroy the nests and the eggs to prevent hatchlings? Canada Geese populations have EXPLODED in the last couple of decades. Their numbers are unmanageable.

 

[JessR]

get a blow up owl, works every time.

 

[ZephyrHawk]

God gave them wings, not us.

 

[TinklednPants]

My golf shoes would be grateful.

 

[PatsMom]

One of the problems with Canadian geese is that they will return to the same place they hatched. And then hatch more babies. So the population just explodes. In our last house we had a pond. One of the neighbors noticed a pair of geese on the pond and started feeding them. It was cute. They had about 12 babies. DD was at the "Make Way For Ducklings" age so she could spend hours watching the babies and mother swim around. She also started feeding the geese.

Season two we had a dozen breeding geese on the pond. They were every where - on the lawns, in the driveway. They were not so cute by the neighbor was a big conservationist so no hunting, etc. I made DD stop feeding the geese.

By the next year our pond was overwhelmed with geese. And that one neighbor was still feeding them. I had goose crap everywhere. You couldn't walk down the hill to the pond because you would slip and fall on the stuff. I consulted with a conservation officer on what to do - I was going to remove eggs from nests so they would have few hatchlings. I was told the better solution was to "scramble" the eggs - if you remove them, they'll lay more. So you have to get into the nest when the mother isn't, shake the eggs hard enough to damage the fetus and return it to the nest. That did cut down on that year's population growth but you would not believe how mean geese can be. Fortunately I had heavy gloves and did this when my neighbor was sound asleep so if I had needed to kill one of them, I could have disposed of the body! By now those geese were so used to being around people that they didn't run away. That was another problem, you couldn't get up the driveway because they would stand in the middle. When you got out of the car to wave them off, they would attack!

I don't know how you cut down on the population - many are too near houses for hunting. But I do know from personal experience that you should never, never make them comfortable when they first show up!

 

[merekc]

Poison them.

I think I'd avoid poison, you might accidentally kill a bald eagle. Instant felon!

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/30/america/pardon.php

 

[GeorgeG]

Maybe there should be some specially trained and licensed hunters around the airports and nearby habitats. The geese could be used to feed the homeless.

 

[Rafiki Rafiki Rafiki]

My DH used to fly out of Little Rock AFB, and they had a terrible deer population. They opened deer season every year to military to keep the population off the runway.

Bird strikes are common in airplanes and can do alot of damage to a plane no matter where they hit...but I think that efforts to keep the birds away from the immediate area of the airport would be much better than opening a hunting season nearby.

 

[soupy11]

It's either us, or them!

 

[JR6ooo4]

let them be trapped and used for food.

they are also spoiling open water supplies.

MIkeeee

 

[lisadr]

Maybe there should be some specially trained and licensed hunters around the airports and nearby habitats. The geese could be used to feed the homeless.

They tried to do that by me and people went nuts(in a bad way) about it.