SOMETHING ABOUT GEESE 



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if they get chilled. Never allow goslings to get to water to swim 

 until they are fully feathered, and then only let those go that you 

 wish to keep for breeders. Many of them will do, as well if they 

 never go swimming. During this period you must keep the old 

 geese away, as they will fight the hen and molest the young. 



You cannot raise geese as you do chickens and ducks, on a city 

 lot. They must have pasture. It is a wrong belief that geese or 

 their droppings will kill grass or pasture. If you have a large flock 

 of geese and a small pasture they will clean it up; that is, they 

 will eat the grass as fast as it sprouts and give it no chance to 

 grow, just as a cow on a city lot will soon have only bare ground 

 and you will have to tie her in the road. If you do the same with 

 geese you would find the grass growing again the same as before. 

 Geese are easier to raise than any other young fowls. 



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