How to Raise White Chinese Geese
- 1). Allow Chinese white geese to forage for most of their food in chemical-free pastures or lawns. Geese love nibbling on grass and weeds. An acre of land can support 20 to 40 geese depending of the lawn or pasture quality.
- 2). Supplement foraging with commercial pellet grain feed. Geese will get most of their nutrition from foraging, but keep a ready supply of rye grass and commercial goose pellets available. Keep feeders stocked; geese are free feeders and don't require specific portions of food a day. They also enjoy treats of lettuce and bread. Like other fowl, geese require grit and an adequate calcium supply. These can be mixed per directions with grain in feeders.
- 3). Supply plenty of fresh drinking water in a tub or container deep enough to allow the geese to fully submerge their heads in the water (at least 8 inches deep). While a pond is especially appreciated by geese, if you don't have one, a plastic wading pool can provide adequate swimming facilities.
- 4). Provide shelter and protection. Geese have simple housing needs: either natural or man-made shade from excessive heat, a place to seek shelter from wind, snow and rain (an insulated dog house or kid's playhouse will do the trick) and a fenced area at night to protect them from predators. Chinese geese are small ,so about 6 geese can fit in a large dog house. Place a 3-foot-tall woven wire enclosure around the shelter or shelters to secure the geese from predators at night.
- 5). Offer fresh, absorbent bedding in shelters or in nesting areas. Straw is the best nesting material for geese.
- 6). Treat geese twice a year to prevent tracheal worms, a deadly parasite. Your veterinarian can administer wormers or give you the treatment with instructions on how to administer it.
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