Goose problem need help solving

RSWANNABE

RSWANNABE

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Long story short. My company built a new facility and by creating landscape and open areas the geese have decided to move in and as prone to do crap all over everything and not leave.

What can I do without losing my job or getting fined to rid our property of these stupid things?
 
Welp with those restrictions, all I can offer is good luck!

Geese suck. Just another version of seagulls, just with type 2 beetus and longer necks.
 
spray the grass with diluted grapefruit juice they dont like the taste and it wont hurt the grass
tie string with flags around ponds if they cant walk out of the water they also dont like
 
Swan and coyote decoys do work but they need to be moved often. Geese will be come comfortable with them after awhile. I have had good success with a product called No Flight. It as applied to the grass and the geese won't eat, land, or lay in these areas. It is not a Oder or taste thing but a uv light thing that the geese see and don't like. Also not sure how much grass we're talking about, but the best results I've had and continue to use is planting grass that they won't eat. I've put a lot of research into this topic due to my dealings with selfridge air base having a lot of grass in there airfield. Athletic fields and a few sterile pharmaceutical facilities also have spent some big bucks trying to solve this problem. Good luck and if you need more info pm me.
 
The Flambeau swan decoys off fleabay work ish. The coyote decoy above does not.

Fake snakes work fairly well.

Tall native grasses in select areas work well to control where they loiter. They don't like not being able to see around them.

"Flight Control" and "Rejex-It" work but are expensive.


The two things I've found that work best:

Electric fence about 4" off the water around the perimeter of the water. You don't have to mow around it that way.

Motion-detecting sprinklers.



If you can get rid of them before nesting season (and make sure to eliminate potential nesting areas and if you find them consider addling them) then they won't come back because they need somewhere to molt and raise their young.


They need to treat Canadian geese as pests and hunt-able with a small game license on private property.
 
They need to treat Canadian geese as pests and hunt-able with a small game license on private property.

Couldn't agree more. But, our $30 coyote that sways in the wind has worked for 2 years now, but maybe our geese suffer from zoophobia, they do seem dumber than most. All i know is, my boss laughed at me when i suggested anything over 50bucks, corporate frowns upon "animal cruelty"
 
Company chilli cookoff? Just so happens, the geese might stop coming "around" right about the same time...

Bet everyone will flock to the chilli and dive in for seconds!
 
Duke said:
I saw someone with these outside their house on Belleville Lake recently, was wondering what the heck they were for.
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We have those outside of my plant as well. The geese flock around it and shit all over it. They do nothing at the plants i've seen them at. Scared the shit out of me the first time i saw it though
 
raroz28 said:
We have those outside of my plant as well. The geese flock around it and shit all over it. They do nothing at the plants i've seen them at. Scared the shit out of me the first time i saw it though
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They put them around the Clinton Township Library a year ago, the geese caught on very quick.
 
They installed a string grid over the grass around the pond at the GM Tech Center a while back. It worked because they couldn't walk over the string. I am sure it was a pain to install all that string. I think it was like 4" or 6" off of the ground.

I have them on my property and tried the swan decoy. That didn't seem to work much. Our fox mistook that for dinner one night and it ended up with a hole in it's neck. :lol: I just leave the grass taller around the pond to give them less ways in and out of the water. It definitely cut down on them. I used to mow it clean to the waters edge so it looked nice and one summer we had 65+ on the property because it looked so appealing to them. Needless to say I stopped that practice after more research...
 
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