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Show Avoid Fattening Feeds for Geese During Winter Geese may be fed cheaply in winter win-ter time using alfalfa and clover hays, root crops, cooked potatoes with a little corn meal bran and middlings and served wet. They should have a little sand added to this mash, 1 per cent of fine, sharp, clean sand In all the mash fed. They could have a little corn, but not much, because corn and grain fatten geese. When spring comes you will find them too fat and they do not lay as well and the eggs, if they do lay, do not hatch very well. As a general thing they mate in pairs though a young gander will sometimes mate with more than one goose. |