PRACTICAL FEEDING OF POULTRY 



mg one feed of a moist but not sloppy mash, made of 

 one-third shorts and two-thirds corn meal and two feeds 

 of corn with some oats or barley. 



The pens should be kept partly darkened and the geese 

 disturbed as little as possible. It is important to use 

 plenty of bedding of oat straw, both to keep the pens 

 clean and to provide roughage, as the geese will eat a con- 

 siderable quantity of the straw. Some roughage or 

 vegetables should be provided. An increase in weight of 

 from 4 to 6 pounds can be obtained by this method of 

 feeding. 



NOODLING GEESE 



Another method which produces a much better fat- 

 tened goose but involves considerably more work is to 

 stuff large geese with noodles for 3 or 4 weeks. From 8 

 to 10 geese are confined to a pen about 8 by 12 feet, 

 which is kept heavily bedded with fresh oat straw. The 

 feeder sits on a box in one corner of the pen, holds the 

 goose between his legs and stuffs it with noodles, usually 

 beginning by feeding from 3 to 5 noodles three times 

 daily and gradually increasing to 6 or 7 noodles five times 

 daily at 4-hour intervals. 



The noodles are made of scalded corn meal, ground 

 oats, ground barley, and ground wheat or wheat flour, 

 using about equal parts of each. Add salt as for bread, 

 thoroughly mix the feed, and put it through a sausage 

 stuffer, cutting the product into pieces 2j^ or 3 inches 

 long. Boil them from 10 to 15 minutes, or until they 

 float, in a wash boiler containing a wire rack which 



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