PROGRESSIVE POULTRY RAISING 



They should be closely confined with their mother until 

 they are three or four days old, after which they may 

 be allowed liberty with their mother in a grassy pasture. 



Goslings should be fed carefully for the first week or 

 ten days after which they secure most of their food if 

 allowed to run in a good pasture. The rations fed by 

 different raisers are numerous but all agree in feeding 

 only a mash. This may consist of corn meal to which 

 is added 10 per cent of meat scrap, or five parts corn 

 meal, five parts shorts and one part meat scrap. Either 

 of these rations should be moistened to a crumbling con- 

 sistency with milk or water. As a usual thing mature 

 geese will be self-maintaining if kept on a good pasture. 

 In case of drought or during the winter, however, they 

 should be fed such bulky feed as mangels, turnips or 

 steamed clover supplemented by the mash of equal 

 parts corn meal, bran and ground oats. For both young 

 and old stock there ought always to be an abundance of 

 drinking water handy to the place of feed, Ground bone 

 or charcoal should always be available. Geese intended 

 for breeding purposes usually do better on pasture than 

 in the feeding lot with other stock, as in the latter case 

 they are likely to get too fat. 



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