Profits in poultry : useful and ornamental breeds and their profitable management . d wholly upon grass, but at first to give a littlewet-up oatmeal daily, and afterwards a few oats or hand-fuls of barley, thrown into a trough or shallow pool towhich they liave access. These fine fowls attain, on agood grass range, nearly double the weight of commongeese, and, forced by high feeding, a pair have been knownto reach the weight of sixty pounds. Twenty-poundgeese are not rare. Early goslings, if well fed, will at-tain that weight at Christmas. The fact is, that com-mon geese make a poor show upon
Profits in poultry : useful and ornamental breeds and their profitable management . d wholly upon grass, but at first to give a littlewet-up oatmeal daily, and afterwards a few oats or hand-fuls of barley, thrown into a trough or shallow pool towhich they liave access. These fine fowls attain, on agood grass range, nearly double the weight of commongeese, and, forced by high feeding, a pair have been knownto reach the weight of sixty pounds. Twenty-poundgeese are not rare. Early goslings, if well fed, will at-tain that weight at Christmas. The fact is, that com-mon geese make a poor show upon the table unless theyare very fat. This is distasteful to many persons, andthey can hardly be very fat before the late autumn, be JJ16 PKOi<lTS IN POULTRY. cause we need grain to fatten them. With this variety,however, and the Embden, which matures early and at-tains a great weight also, it is different; the goslings areheavy before they are fat, carry a good deal of flesh, andare tender and delicious early in tiie season, when simplygrass-fed, or having had but little Fig. 85.—EMBDEX GEESE. In breeding geese, the surplus stock of goslings is kilMoff every year. None need be saver! for wintering andbreeding, except it may be well to koep one or two finegeese to take the places of old birds killed or hurt bysome accidont. Geese lay regularly, brood and rear theirgoslings well for fifty to eighty years, and it is said grow RAISING GEESE. 217 tougher every year. So if one has a good breeding goose,one which does her own duty well, and is reasonablypeaceable towards other inhabitants of the farm-yard, itis best to keep her for years. Sometimes a goose will bevery cross, killing ducklings and chickens, attackingchildren, etc. Such a one is a fit candidate for the are generally m-uch worse, and usually onemore than five or six years old becomes absolutely un-bearable. So provision is naturally made to replace theold ganders every three or four years. It is,
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