The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: Carey boy on October 12, 2014, 07:17:31 pm
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I'm buying some geese to keep the grass down. What else should I feed them?
Help please
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we only fed our geese in mid winter - and then gave them layers and mixed grain, the rest of the time they grazed as we had a lot of grass at that time.
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They will eat grass and I give mine a bit of mixed corn nothing else and they are thriving.
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Mixed corn and wheat
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We don't feed ours other than a bit of mixed corn in a bucket of water at bedtime.
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Mine have a cropfull of whole wheat morning and evening and whatever they can bully from the pigs :eyelashes: :innocent:
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Mine have free access to waterfowl growers/finishers and then mixed corn late afternoon but they're in a pen with chickens and ducks too at the moment. I think it's more important to supplement through the winter as the grass is less nutritious.
H
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Hi Mojocafa, Why do you put the mixed corn in a bucket of water at bedtime?
David
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Because the geese can fish it out and being in water it isn't available to rats like it would be if uneaten on the floor.
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ducks and geese find it easier to swallow if its in water - being water fowl.
I never thought about the rats though, that's interesting.
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Mojocafa, Well that sound like a very good thing to do. Will do. Thank's.
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Mine get mostly grass with some mixed corn and wheat and geese grower and finisher pellets also. If you do feed pellets make sure they are for waterfowl and don't have the coccidiostat that hen pellets can have - not good for geese.
Helen