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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: harry on August 02, 2013, 07:40:09 pm

Title: feeding geese
Post by: harry on August 02, 2013, 07:40:09 pm

whats a good feeding regime from now to xmas without getting loads of FAT geese...there are 4 on about 2/3rds acre of reasonable grass... but i would like some big geese but not all fat... they are embden types......

Title: Re: feeding geese
Post by: shygirl on August 02, 2013, 08:50:48 pm

if you have grass then they dont need feeding til after sept (hence term green geese).
mixed grain should be fine, our hardly got anything and grew like the clappers.

Title: Re: feeding geese
Post by: harry on August 03, 2013, 08:51:56 pm

ok will try that

Title: Re: feeding geese
Post by: graham-j on August 04, 2013, 08:39:55 am

Hi,mine get mixed grain every evening,I spread a bucket full over the whole field.It takes them hours to find it all but they do.

Graham.