The Goose Birds 
HOUSE 
The house may be as small and as inexpensive a 
coop as will give shelter from storm and predatory 
animals; but it should be large enough to give 
plenty of air, and should be well ventilated, and 
should be placed where the geese can have access 
to pasturage and to water. They are very fond of 
grazing, and are particularly good for weed-infested 
land. To make them happy, they should have 
constant access to a pond or stream; although they 
can live away from water, it is not natural for them 
to do so. At least they must have plenty of fresh 
water to drink each day. 
FOOD 
Geese should be given plenty of grass in their 
pasture. Cooked vegetables may be fed in the 
form of a mash. An excellent mixture consists of 
bran, middlings, and corn meal, with cooked vege- 
tables. Animal meal mixed with moistened corn 
meal is recommended for young geese. If the geese 
are allowed to roam they will supply themselves 
with animal food in the form of insects, snails, etc. 
If they are not allowed to roam, they should be 
given animal meal or meat scrap. Goslings should 
not be given sloppy food. They should be fed four 
times daily until they are fourteen days old, and after 
that three times daily. For the first eight days, 
the food should be stale bread crumbs mixed with 
avery little corn meal and bran, all slightly moistened 
so as to becrumbly. Goslings should not be allowed 
to swim until they have a new coat of feathers, so 
drinking water must be given them in an inverted 
bottle, as described for chickens, at first. 
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