Why can't chickens, ducks and geese be raised together? Because they get sick easily

In rural areas, many households keep poultry and livestock, and chickens, geese and ducks are three of the more common kinds. Friends who don't understand think there won't be any problem with raising them together, but in fact they cannot be raised together, and raising them together makes them quite prone to illness. The key reasons will be explained to everyone below by the editor, and friends who want to know more can take a look below.

I. Reasons why chickens, ducks and geese cannot be raised together

1. Different living conditions

Ducks and geese are waterfowl and usually like places with water, which makes the area damp and muddy. This is completely different from chickens, and a damp area will lead to various parasitic infections in chickens, recurring enteritis, coccidiosis that is difficult to cure, and a series of conditions such as E. coli.

2. They easily transmit diseases to each other

Raising chickens, geese and ducks together easily leads to the mutual spread of diseases. Especially Newcastle disease virus, which sometimes lies dormant in the body without showing symptoms. It can also cause viral mutation, leading to strange onset of disease, difficulty in curing, large-scale deaths, and great losses.

3. It causes feed waste

Chickens, ducks and geese each require different levels of nutrients, and their requirements for feed are also different. If they are fed the same mixed feed, it will cause feed waste, and mixed raising will reduce feed utilization. This also indirectly increases the burden on the farm, as well as the feeding cost.

4. Different growth habits

Ducks and geese are loud, while chickens like to live in a quieter environment. If chickens, ducks and geese are raised together, it will affect the rapid fattening of broilers, reduce the egg production of laying hens and affect various other production traits, causing property losses.

II. Benefits of raising geese together with *chickens

The call of a goose is rather distinctive and intimidating, and can drive away some small and medium-sized carnivores; even eagles are afraid of its call. Fourth, geese can also drive away rats and prevent flies and snakes, so they can be called all-rounders. Not only that, there are also snakes; as soon as they see this big goose, they are so frightened that they turn and run away. It must be admitted that this big goose is still an all-rounder, so if you raise chicks at home, you might as well add a few big geese among the chicks and raise them together, giving the chicks a sense of security. Compared with watchdogs, geese cost less to feed, and you don't have to worry about dogs stealing the chickens to eat; geese can get along harmoniously with chickens, so when raising *chickens it is best to raise a few geese together with them. In addition, although *chickens cannot fly, they are as light as swallows; they only need to jump onto the treetops, and a big goose dragging its heavy body cannot pose a threat to them.

Alright, that is all for the content the editor wants to share with everyone today. The reason chickens, ducks and geese cannot be raised together is mainly the four reasons above, but raising geese together with *chickens does have certain benefits, and everyone can pay a bit more attention to this when raising them.