What are the precautions for raising geese in summer

Raising geese in summer has the following advantages: First, the climate is suitable. Summer geese are generally brooded from May to June, and the brooding survival rate can reach over 98%. When summer geese are raised to about 60 days, the average weight per goose is 1.5-2.5 kg, and goslings are easy to manage. Second, it saves feed. When brooding during this period, the goslings can eat fresh tender green grass, the goslings grow quickly, and the cycle is short.

1. Cooling and heat prevention. Keep the house temperature within 26°C. The methods for cooling and heat prevention are: ① Ventilation and cooling. Build a sun-shading and wind-blocking awning in the activity area outside the goose house. Use nylon mesh or fencing for the front wall of the goose house, and other walls should have windows at high and low positions. The goose house should be spacious to prevent overcrowding. ② Control humidity. In summer, the goose house not only has high temperature but also very high humidity, which often affects the release of body heat from the geese and causes large-scale reproduction of pathogens. The suitable relative humidity for the goose house is 55%-60%. If the relative humidity is greater than 75%, gosling arthritis will increase. In order to create a more suitable environmental temperature for the goslings, all doors and windows should be opened day and night in summer to allow air circulation. If conditions permit, electric fans can be installed, which makes the dehumidifying and heat-dissipating effect better. ③ Reduce density. In summer, the density of the goose flock should not be too high. The rearing density for meat geese is suitably 5-6 per sq m to prevent heatstroke caused by overcrowding. ④ Spray water to cool down. During high temperatures each day, spray cool water on the ground, walls, and geese; the goose flock can also be disinfected in the afternoon. 2. Careful feeding of goslings. For goslings one day after hatching, use finely cut fresh tender vegetable leaves (or green grass) and place them in the hand to entice feeding. If most of them compete for food, then start feeding. Then use a small basin to hold water and train them to drink. When feeding, evenly scatter the vegetable leaves (or feed) on a plastic sheet and let them eat, feeding once every two hours. From the third day, switch to feeding troughs, feeding 5 times a day, with the last feeding arranged at around 10 p.m. At 6-10 days of age, feed 6-8 times a day, including two feedings at night. 3. Combine confinement and grazing. Before 35 days of age, grazing should be the main method. When the temperature is lower in the morning and evening, the goose flock has a large feed intake, so the geese can be driven to places with good grass quality, sufficient quantity, and no pollution for grazing, which can save a large amount of concentrated feed. Generally, grazing from 5-9 a.m. and 6-8 p.m. is suitable. The rest of the time they can be kept confined and appropriately supplemented with concentrated feed. This can both make full use of the abundant grass resources and meet the nutritional needs of the geese for growth. When grazing, first let the geese eat their fill and then swim. Each swim should last half an hour, then they go ashore to rest for half an hour, and then continue grazing. After returning from grazing, let the geese rest outside the house and supplement feed. When supplementing feed, feed each goose 100 grams of compound feed per day, and additionally add finely cut green feed and mix well for feeding, with green feed accounting for about 20% of the compound feed as suitable. The compound feed should be reasonably prepared according to different growth stages. Reference formula for feed at 1-20 days of age: corn 50%, fish meal 9%, soybean cake 9%, grass meal 15%, bone meal 0.7%, wheat middlings 15%, salt 0.3%, growth hormone 1%; reference formula for feed at 21-60 days of age: corn 65%, grass meal 18%, wheat middlings 15%, bone meal 0.7%, salt 0.3%, growth hormone 1%. When preparing, crush each type of feed separately, then mix evenly. At the same time, sodium bicarbonate can be added to the feed. At 35-50 days of age, the geese should be kept confined [www.nczfJ.com/] and their movement reduced. The rearing density is suitably 5 per sq m. Every day, mix 100-150 grams of compound feed per goose with finely cut green feed and feed evenly. Mix the compound feed and green feed at a ratio of 3:7 into a semi-dry, semi-moist feed and feed it, providing sufficient drinking water. For the few meat geese that do not crave food, a mixed fine and green feed can be used for force-feeding, 3-5 times a day, and sufficient drinking water should be provided. The pen should be cleaned once a day, sand should be spread once every 3 days, and the feed troughs and water troughs should be cleaned once a day. Every other day, let the geese enter the water to swim for about half an hour. At 51-60 days of age, feed about 800 grams of compound feed per day in 5-6 feedings. Generally, after about 60 days of careful raising, medium-sized meat geese weigh 4-5 kg, and large meat geese weigh 6-7 kg. 4. Prevent animal damage. During the brooding period of summer geese, the goose house is most afraid of animal damage, especially rat damage. Therefore, rat holes in the goose house should be blocked, and doors and windows should be fitted with rat-proof nets to prevent rats from intruding into the goose house. 5. Epidemic prevention and disease elimination. Meat geese are prone to disease in summer, so epidemic prevention should be done well. Newly hatched goslings should be injected with gosling plague serum, 0.5 ml per goose by intramuscular injection. At 30 days of age, each goose should be injected intramuscularly with 1.5 ml of fowl cholera vaccine. Feeding utensils should be disinfected once every 3-5 days, and the pen and activity area should be disinfected once every 7-10 days with 1% bleaching powder and 2% caustic soda alternately.

Common summer diseases and their prevention and treatment methods: ① Rheumatism: cut open the goose web fork, squeeze out the dirty blood, then soak the goose web in human urine for 2-3 minutes to cure it. ② Dysentery: put an appropriate amount of chili powder and ginger into a pot and stir-fry, then mix in rice bran and stir-fry again. After frying until cooked, let it cool and feed it to the geese. The geese will recover after eating it for 2 consecutive days. ③ Sha disease: a pair of red tendons should be found promptly on the inner sides of the sick goose's legs. Use a fine needle to prick the raised red tendons and release some of the blood inside. After about 40 minutes, the sick goose will recover.