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farmers’ bulletin 7G7. 
Good-sized growing coops, with board floors, should be provided for 
the goslings, and they must be protected from their enemies. When 
on range young goslings need some attention, as they may get lost 
or caught in post holes and odd corners. Shade should be pro¬ 
vided in hot weather. They should not be allowed to run with 
large animals, as they may be injured or killed. 
FEEDING GEESE AND GOSLINGS. 
Geese are generally raised where they have a good grass range or 
pasture, as they are good grazers, and, except during the winter 
months, usually pick up most of their living. The pasture may be 
supplemented with light feeds of the common or home-grown grains 
or wet mash daily, the necessity and quantity of this feed depending 
on the pasture. Goslings do not need feed until they are 24 to 36 
hours old, when they should be fed any of the mashes recommended 
for chickens or ducklings, or a mash or dough of two-thirds shorts 
(middlings) and one-third corn meal, which can be made equal parts 
shorts and corn meal, and 5 per cent of beef scrap added after six 
weeks. Bread and milk is an excellent feed for young goslings. 
Fine grit or sharp sand should be provided for goslings by feeding 
5 per cent of it in their mash or keeping it in a hopper before them. 
If the goslings are to be fattened, the ration should be changed to 
one-third shorts and two-thirds corn meal by weight, with 5 per cent 
of beef scrap added, while a feed of corn should be given at night. 
Most geese breeders do not confine their geese for fattening, but feed 
them freely a few weeks on a fattening ration before they are to be 
marketed. The geese may be confined for two or three weeks and 
fattened, but some green feed or vegetables should be added to the 
ration. 
Adult geese may be fed for eggs about February 1 on a mash of 1 
pound of corn meal, 1 of bran, 1 of middlings or low-grade flour, 
and 10 per cent of beef scrap, which is fed in the morning; equal 
parts corn and wheat, or corn alone, is fed at night. Grit and oyster 
shell should be kept before geese when they are laying and may be 
provided all the time to advantage. A constant supply of drinking 
water should be available for both goslings and geese. Drinking 
fountains or pans should be constructed so that neither goslings nor 
older stock can get their feet into the water. If the geese need extra 
feed when not laying, the beef scrap should be left out and the quan¬ 
tity of corn meal increased to three parts. Any available roughage, 
such as cut clover, hay, alfalfa, silage, cabbages, mangel-wurzel beets, 
or any waste vegetables should be added during the winter months, 
or whenever no good pasture is available. The time to feed for eggs 
