I knew farmers who used them as guard dogs. No training required.
Yup.
Nasty critters.
My gander would attack me every time I collected the eggs one of the girls was brooding pointlessly.
I found it [painfully] funny because I knew him but I can easily imagine someone not raised on a farm freaking out.
They ‘karate chop’ you with the leading edge of their wings.
Works pretty good, really,
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