How to mix and feed meat goose feed? Detailed explanation of the key methods

After processing and mixing, meat goose feed can improve feed palatability, enhance appetite, raise the digestion and absorption rate of feed, help reduce feeding costs, and increasegoose farmingbenefits.

Mixing methods

1. Grinding: Cereal grains such as paddy rice, wheat, broad beans, and corn have hard husks and skins, so they are not easily digested and absorbed, especially for goslings with poor digestive function. Therefore, they must be ground or milled fine before feeding, but they should not be ground too fine, otherwise it is not conducive to eating and swallowing; generally, crushing into small particles is preferable.

2. Chopping: Fresh green feed contains more vitamins and is easily destroyed during steaming or boiling, so it should be washed and chopped before feeding. Green feed should be cut into shreds or strips and fed as soon as it is cut; it should not be stored for long, so as to avoid spoilage.

3. Soaking: Harder cereal grains such as corn, wheat, and rice become softer after soaking, making them more palatable to geese and easier to digest. In particular, the broken rice used for starting goslings on feed must be soaked for 1 hour before feeding to aid digestion, but the soaking time should not be too long, otherwise the feed will spoil. Bran and middlings-type feed should be mixed wet before feeding to prevent scattering, reduce waste, improve palatability, and increase the geese's feed intake.

4. Steaming or boiling: Cereal grains, root tubers, and melon-type feeds, such as corn, wheat, sweet potato, and carrot, can be greatly improved in palatability and digestibility if fed after steaming or boiling.

Feeding methods

1. Wet mixed feed: Dry powder feed can be mixed wet with water, but it should not be too wet or too dry; if too wet it sticks to the beak, and if too dry it is inconvenient to swallow.

2. Semi-liquid feed: Mix dry powder feed with water into a semi-liquid state; it is not only easy to digest but also helpful for fattening.

3. Pellet feed: Pellet feed processed with a pellet machine has good palatability, causes little waste, and gives high benefits when fed to geese, but care must be taken to provide enough drinking water.