What did you plant ? If forage, hay, oats, wheat or similar, they seem to really like those, even if there are green grasses nearby, grass that is just starting or still young, supple and sweet or so I have seen here. With corn, they nip the plants, and as much as I hate seeing them in a field, I've not seen them cause significant damage here at least, those plants seem to outgrow em, but maybe the damage is subtle and more significant.
In NYS you have to get a DEC depredation permit, that allows you 25 kills, then you have to get a federal permit. The geese we have here are not native and that gives us leverage I believe.
They are pesky and persistent, I've never been able to keep em out completely as they live in the 20 acres of pond we have, brood their young, then march them over to the field to graze, I have kept them off oats long enough to minimize damage, but what pain in the @ss, every morning at sun up, .22, sometimes shotgun, louder bang seems to keep em off longer sometimes.
Interesting to hear more on how the rest of YT'ers deal with them, get some more ideas.
Only other thing I have not been able to do is oil the eggs, that would likely be effective, have to get in the flat bottom and row around, find em, supposedly that keeps them on the nest, they don't hatch or lay more, diverts their attention to the nest I believe.
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