Well, sounds like it isn´t because of lack of a pool. the most important food for geese is grass, plenty of it, and this is the best time of year for it too. Hopefully you´´ll get it sorted.Okay!! thank you! Ya if they want to go and hunt down corn in other pens or leftovers on the ground they can but I will get them off corn!! they actually think the duck pellet is a treat so I don't think I will have any trouble with the gamebird pellet! it just contains a few extra ingredients and they won't know the difference! But whole oats may be a different story! It may work if it's mixed with the pellets but I have a feeling that may take some time to get used to! but I wont be feeding them much, definitely no fee feed all day, only one dish enough for everyone at night! so if they want it they can eat it. if not they can think they are being neglevted and starving but they can just deal and eat grass and bugs they have to get on their own!!
Yes I am stopping corn period but should I still not free feed pellet and oats and only give the smallest amount just enough for daily consumption? Or did you mean stop all feeding for a bit? But if I should still feed some food nightly what quantity of food should I give to 6 geese in total, but I'd only give food for 5 in the pen because my Chinese gander hardly eats anything anyways!!!!
Okay thank you!!!! Yupp!! winter is always a killer!!! I love my fatties to death but I would love for them to be healthier and to produce babies!!! geese are my fav and I really want seebee babies!!!!
Ya that's what my mom said!! that the geese have always eaten straight corn and have always been fine so that's all they need! Just like the chickens(but was scratch not corn)... till I got 2 out of 20 eggs hatched and that was it, hopped on here and their food was the problem, changed it and now I can't stop the things from laying and hatching out babies here there and everywhere!
So I will be switching food but I think my main problem is that they gorged out wayyyy too much on all that food during winter! if I would have fed less and more half half stuff, which only got fed half the time because my mom would only give corn and I couldn't get the food out once it was in their feeder to mix it, I think theywould have been fine or atleast a lot better!!!
They have a 6 foot deep pond that they have full access to but haven't started to use it yet. They have a kiddie pool by the barn that I think is filled, a small 6" deep pond/puddle that is the size of two and a half kiddie pools just a td bit shallower and muddier! they also have about ten 3+ inch deep puddles all over the yard and field that they bath in constantly! I don't really see them mate but my mom she sees them do it! but only in their bed! never outside!!!!
