Goose – rather widespread bird which was bred in Russia. Whether not accidentally Russian goose breeds slightly twice more, than European. In cultivation the geese favourably differ from other types of poultry. They can be parted even on a garden personal plot because the contents is spent for geese a few means. Geese well transfer even winter conditions as possess great protection against cold – a thick down cover. Only neoperenny parts of a body – paws and a beak are vulnerable at them.
Instruction
1. During the winter period contentsof geese - more troublesome business, than in the summer. Surely make the hen house. Boards of walls have to be densely adjusted, it is good if are a little warmed. The main thing that in it there were no drafts. One more necessary condition is the lack of dampness. The frontal part of the hen house for colder areas has to be turned in the southern direction.
2. If laying material, for example, of timbered walls, represents what geese like to use for the needs, then they povytaskat it. It can be tow or a moss. In order to avoid it it is necessary to upholster on all room walls from a floor with laths on height of 1 m.
3. It is better for Paule to make of boards. That it was aired, lay it on bars about 20 cm high that will provide smaller humidity. It is not the only method to reduce it. For geese it is necessary to put a laying which surely has to be dry and in a large number. If it is dampened, then goose quills and down will be humidified, lose heat, and because of it to birds will become chilly.
4. Be defined in advance how many birds you intend to support. Depends on it whether enough spaces will be it. Geese can exist also in the conditions of density, narrowness, but then the quality of their contents is much worse. At a lack of space the laying will become soiled much quicker, birds – to be soiled, and the dung will create bad conditions because of more concentrated releases of gases at its decomposition. Estimate space or quantity of birds so that not less than 1 m were the share of 1 goose? on a floor. If the winter period is short and not especially cold, then it is possible to lower 2-multiply this requirement as the bird will spend the most part of time out of the hen house.
5. Organize places of feeding. Them has to be enough that geese were not pushed and did not wait in line for access to a forage. Make for them in the personal place. Suspend feeding troughs or fix otherwise at the height of 20 cm. For feeding by the crushed green material in addition to feeding troughs it is possible to use a wire basket of large weaving.
6. In order that geese could drink, containers with water are necessary. For this purpose buckets, basins, troughs and so forth will approach. Establish them on pallets or baking sheets, otherwise water will be spilled on a floor.
7. In the afternoon let out geese to take a walk, except time of hard frosts. Make space for walk directly adjoining the hen house, and on the area - exceeding it approximately twice.
8. Organize regular feeding of birds. Prepare fodder bourgeoises. They have to be friable and surely damp. They can be done on serum, skim milk or buttermilk. Geese are animals very choosy to that the forage was fresh, not soured.
9. Before the breeding period (month for 1.5) grain forages give more. Well if you couch oats for a bird. Also add to geese to food fodder yeast at the rate of 8 g on each bird. It will provide good vitamin fertilizing.
10. You watch the weight of geese, it is regular them weighing and by that defining sufficiency of a forage. Losses of weight cannot be allowed as during the winter period it can weaken birds that will harmful affect health. If weight was lost, then considerably increase quantity of a forage until normal gain of weight is restored.
11. Bourgeoises prepare from a large amount of hay which needs to be crushed. Add compound feed or food waste – vegetable cleanings. At least once weekly give the integral root crops crushed on small cubes that it was convenient to birds to peck them and to swallow. Too give them mixed up with compound feed.
12. Provide access to gravel, sand, charcoal, a shredded shell. Place them separately in different departments of some capacity. Birds will swallow them from time to time. It is necessary for mastication of food in a craw.
13. It is much simpler to support geese in the summer. Graze them on meadows near the small river or a pond. On pastures the geese are fed all day independently, but then surely organize access to water and the place where they could take cover periodically from the scorching sun. It is possible to build a canopy and to put drinking bowls with water. The canopy can be weaved independently out of straw, branches or stalks of a cane.
14. If there is no opportunity to release geese on a free pasture in a type of lack of natural reservoirs, it is possible to support them in the open-air cage or the shelter. Then surely organize for them the place for drink, bathings and provide with a large number of green material as a part of bourgeoises.