In rural areas it is very favorable to breed an agricultural bird. If near the house there are free meadows or the lake, then it is possible to get geese. These birds are unpretentious in contents and in food. In the summer their food consists of a pasture, and in the winter only grain and water. It is possible to receive from geese up to 6 kg of tasty meat, about a kilogram of useful fat and, of course, soft down for pillows in the fall.
For cultivation the herd is completed in the fall, before the first frosts. Usually on one gander get no more than three gooses. If you decided to get a bird only for the summer, having slaughtered them in the fall, then buy baby birds in April-May. Choose active and healthy baby birds. Gooses very quickly grow, in two months their weight increases almost by 40 times.
Goose – a bird territorial, they become attached to one place and to the owner. Therefore there are practically no problems with their contents. They will not run away from the yard; will not swim so far that you will not find them.
In the summer of geese it is necessary to hold on the street: on meadows, about reservoirs or in specially built shelter. In an availability zone the geese always have to have a drinking water and a fresh grass. For night of birds drive into the room. It is almost not necessary to feed with summer of geese on pastures. On walking they pinch a grass to 2 kg a day, drink water from reservoirs.
High grass and also grass from boggy ponds they are will not become therefore it is necessary to graze them on meadows with a good grass. Among vegetation the geese prefer dandelions, plantains, a sorrel, a nettle, a bindweed and bird's buckwheat. The vegetation remains after harvesting also with pleasure are eaten by these birds.
In hot days the geese who walk in the shelter have to have water for bathing. Just put a wide basin with water for them. Once a month arrange to birds bathing in sand and cindery mix, having added a little fodder sulfur there. It will be prevention from pukhoperyevy parasites.
In the winter of geese it is necessary to contain in the clean and dry room which walls are processed by svezhegasheny lime. The room has to be aired well that the dampness did not settle on walls. If is too damp, then birds can catch a cold. Legs and a beak at geese – the most sensitive parts of a body therefore a floor has to be dry and warm.
Raise it on 20 cm from the earth and powder with straw, sawdust or peat. Temperature indoors has to be not less than 0th °C if the place of a wintering of birds is made correctly, then they will be heated at the expense of the dense down. Geese are very hardy by cold therefore in good weather they can be let out in the winter on the street for feeding.
Feed with winter of birds twice a day: in the morning and give grain and water in the evening. Water in drinking bowls needs to be warmed up periodically during the day that it did not freeze. In the period of a yaytsekladka at cultivation the feeding is increased to 4 times a day.
Chuck in geese meat in December, before New year. Then at these birds the largest content of meat. Goose meat very nutritious, it contains a large number of proteins and mineral substances. Fat of geese is widely used in traditional medicine, and eggs are ideal for pastries.
It is not difficult to support geese at all. If to surround a bird with care, then they will trust the owner. Then they the behavior will prompt to you that is required for healthy and strong development.