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Key Points of Gosling Rearing Techniques and Detailed Daily Management Methods

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1. Select good goslings. Healthy goslings are lively in behavior, have large bright eyes, respond quickly, have good yolk absorption, can stand firmly after their down dries, and have strong calls; when held up by the neck with the hand, their feet quickly tuck in. Weak goslings with large bellies or crooked heads should be culled. 2. Suitable temperature. For 1-5 days of age, 25-28°C; for 6-10 days of age, 23-26°C; for 11-20 days of age, 20-24°C; after 21 days of age, 17-20°C. 3. Careful feeding. Feeding should be done at fixed times and in fixed amounts, and it is best to feed small amounts frequently to 80% fullness.

1. Select good goslings. Healthy goslings are lively in behavior, have large bright eyes, respond quickly, have good yolk absorption, can stand firmly after their down dries, and have strong calls; when held up by the neck with the hand, their feet quickly tuck in. Weak goslings with large bellies or crooked heads should be culled.

2. Suitable temperature. For 1-5 days of age, 25-28°C; for 6-10 days of age, 23-26°C; for 11-20 days of age, 20-24°C; after 21 days of age, 17-20°C.

3. Careful feeding. Feeding should be done at fixed times and in fixed amounts, and it is best to feed small amounts frequently to 80% fullness. After goslings hatch for 24 hours, they should first be given water and then started on feed, with soaked broken rice and shredded green vegetables. For the first two days after starting feed, feed 4-5 times; from 4-10 days of age, increase the number of feedings to 5-7 times, with concentrate making up 35% of the daily ration and green vegetables 65%. From 11-20 days of age, green feed should be the main part. After 21 days of age, switch to grain-type feed and feed 4-5 times per day.

4. Separate brooding. Each batch of goslings has differences in size or strength, so they must be reasonably grouped to achieve uniform growth and neat development across the whole flock. Brooding should be done in small groups, with 50-80 birds per group. They must be checked group by group during both day and night, and the goslings should be stirred by hand 4-5 times to prevent piling up, which can cause freezing on top, overheating in the middle, and crushing underneath.

5. Timely grazing. After starting feed, they should stand up once every hour, which can help regulate temperature and release moisture. After 7 days of age, on clear and windless days, they can be released into clean shallow ponds for water, starting with short times and short distances.

6. Disease prevention and control. Goslings have weak disease resistance, so the pen should be cleaned often, the bedding straw should be changed and dried frequently, and the feed trough should be scrubbed with alkaline water once a week. During the brooding stage, the focus should be on preventing and controlling gosling influenza and gosling plague.

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