Questions. Help please

[azygous]

You got my curiosity up about what geese eat. Here's what I found and it may have some feeding tips you haven't heard about. https://poultrykeeper.com/keeping-geese-faq/feeding-geese/

I'm wondering what you've been feeding him besides the Flock Raiser. Perhaps he needs more grassy foods in his diet than he's been getting. You might think about getting him a bale of high quality (first or second cut) alfalfa during the winter.

 

[MGG]

I give him his feed and sometimes I'll soak an alfalfa cube for him. Thats pretty much all he gets in the winter. Should I try to find some hay? I can only get it from feed store so whatever they have there. I'll read the article.

 

[azygous]

Why not try fermenting your alfalfa cubes? Here's a thread on how to do it. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/fermented-alfalfa-cubes-how-to.1157838/

 

[MGG]

The article was interesting, thanks for posting it. So where can I get the wheat? He doesn't like lettuce. I hope he likes the parsley. To ferment the cubes how many should I do? I don't have any FF liquid. What else can I use? Sorry to bother you again.

 

[azygous]

It appears you can use a tablespoon of yogurt with active enzymes or buttermilk or a little keifer to get the ferment going. I'd do maybe two or three cubes at a time for him, and use the "juice" from it to start more when needed. Or you can just add a cube as he eats them and the supply diminishes.

This will provide active microbes to his digestive tract and he's more likely to have no more issues because of it.

 

[Isaac 0]

Geese definitely should have some grass during some parts of the year, For my geese, I will either put wheat(Grain Form) and put in a bucket with water to give them some needed nutrients or more recently what i've been doing is growing fodder for them inside in a nursery flat for them to eat, In the summer i usually don't do this since they have steady supply of grass and weeds to eat. Some people do feed their geese hay.

 

[MGG]

Where can I find the wheat? And what kind to get?

 

[Isaac 0]

Where can I find the wheat? And what kind to get?

I get mine from a feed mill, I believe they call it Geese Wheat Just make sure it's for animal consumption.

 

[azygous]

Good old, bad old Amazon has it. https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=Whole+wheat+berries Also, if your feed store can't order you a big feed bag of it, you can probably find it in the cereal aisle under the Red Mill label.

 

[MGG]

Ok! Thanks! I'll order it.