Consider the geodesic flow on a real-analytic, closed, and strictly convex hypersurface M of R n , equipped with the Euclidean metric. The flow is entirely determined by the manifold and the Riemannian metric. Typically, geodesic flows are perturbed by perturbing the metric. In the present paper, only the Euclidean metric is used, and instead the manifold M is perturbed. In this context, analogues of the following theorems are proved: the bumpy metric theorem; a theorem of Klingenberg and Takens regarding generic properties of k-jets of Poincaré maps along geodesics; and the Kupka-Smale theorem. Moreover, the proofs presented here are valid in the real-analytic category. Together, these results imply the following two main theorems: