Tips for Fattening Meat Geese: Feed Them This Way and They Grow Fast

Goose farming is a traditional rural breeding industry, not only with low investment cost, but also with good farming prospects, so many people raise geese. And to raise geese well, you need to fatten them quickly for market. So what are the tips for fattening meat geese?

1. What are the tips for fattening meat geese?

1. Fattening with Chinese herbal medicine

Summer meat goose fattening formula: chili pepper and magnesium sulfate 12% each, licorice, Acanthopanax gracilistylus bark, and ginger powder 23% each, fennel 7%.

Winter meat goose fattening formula: ginger powder 24%, cinnamon 50%, licorice and magnesium sulfate 90% each, fennel 8%. Grind the medicines in the formula into powder, mix into the feed, add an appropriate amount of clean water, and feed each goose 0.5-1 g each time, once every two days. After use, the geese have increased appetite, shiny feathers, and fast weight gain.

2. Fattening with Sumeijian: beneficial bacteria regulate the intestinal flora. When the intestines are healthy, the geese eat more and digest well, the droppings are well formed, and the feed absorption rate is higher, achieving the effect of fattening and weight gain, quickly growing feathers, and reducing indoor ammonia and odor.

3. Fattening with oxytetracycline calcium salt: frequently mix oxytetracycline calcium salt into the feed, 100-200 g per goose per year, which can make geese plump and strong and lay more eggs.

4. Fattening with sodium sulfate: starting from 10 days of age, feed meat geese sodium sulfate at 0.3% of the compound feed, for long-term feeding. Sodium sulfate can promote protein biosynthesis in the body, stimulate growth, and improve meat quality.

5. Fattening with soybean oil: about one week before sale, add a little soybean oil to the feed, and add 0.02% sublimed sulfur powder according to the feed amount, which can make geese fat, tender, and rich in oil in a short time.

2. Why do few people eat goose meat?

1. Goose meat sales vary by region, and people in some areas may not be used to eating goose meat.

2. Geese are large poultry, eat a lot, and have a long growth period. From the perspective of investment returns, few people raise them. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that goose meat is a "stimulating food," and it should not be eaten casually when one has a certain illness, so most people dare not eat it. These may be the reasons why there is little goose meat on the market.

3. Some people say geese are a "stimulating food," and eating them easily causes illness. People who raise geese feel it is not good for large-scale farming, because they cannot gain weight in a short period, the feed-to-meat ratio is not high, and farmers would lose money.

4. In many places among Chinese folk, people believe goose meat is a “stimulating food” and eating it is bad for health. Legend has it that Xu Da suffered from a back sore, and Zhu Yuanzhang sent someone to deliver a steamed goose to harm Xu Da. After eating it, Xu Da died, which is an example of treating goose meat as a “stimulating food.”

5. Geese are larger than chickens and ducks, and a small household cannot finish one goose in a single meal. If kept for a long time, they worry the goose meat will spoil. This is the second reason people eat little goose meat.

6. In the minds of Chinese people, geese are a symbol of purity, kindness, bravery, and good fighting ability. Just as many places in China do not eat horse meat, people also do not eat the meat of geese, which symbolize goodness.