goose - the bird, which has long been appreciated and grown in Russia.Any meal into a wealthy family and special holidays the peasants did not do without national dishes with the tender meat.Goose with apples and golden brown porridge is found in every Russian fairy tale.Why is this bird so loved?Let's look at the widespread breed of geese and evaluate their performance.
Goose is widely used in large poultry farms and in backyard farms.Quick weight gain - it's the quality that attracts attention to the bird.Although it is valuable not only to meat.With each individual prudent owner can get a great fat, liver, weightless feather and fluff.Even goose pelt with the remnants of a gun, you can dress like a rabbit.This material is perfect for making podstezhki winter clothing.
Knowing the most promising breeds of geese, you can get good profit from their growth.Since this bird can eat grass, the large consumption of feed is not required.This means that the investment will be minimal.Enough of a goose goslings grow 5-7 to fully recoup its content and get about sixty kilograms of delicious meat.Each individual two months of little chicks will turn into a stately bird weighing four kilograms without any special effort on the part of the owner.
In small farms cultivated the most promising meat breeds of geese.These include Gorky, Toulouse, Kaluga, arzamazskaya, Tula, holmogorskaja, large gray, Italian white, Kuban, obroshinskaya and Chinese.We are closer look at only two.
geese Kholmogory
This bird is familiar to every person from early childhood.She became the prototype of a character in a fairy tale "Geese-swans".Kholmogory are particularly valuable meat breeds of geese.The bird has a beautiful color of white, gray and piebald or gray.Distinctive characteristics inherent to a given individual are considered:
- large head slightly elongated eyes squinting because of the small brow wrinkles;
- long beak with a pronounced hump and bump at the top, dark red or pink-yellow color;
- large leather fold located under the beak;
- «swan" neck, reaching a length of 70 centimeters;
- broad and straight back and chest, there are two folds of fat under the belly;
- large paws pink-yellow color.
Goose holmogorskoj breeds can bring 13-40 eggs per year, each of which weighs about 200 grams.This is a very responsible and lovely mother hen.The weight of calves aged five months reaches 8-12 kilograms at special fattening.
Lind geese
This breed is commonly known as Gorky.It was obtained by crossing Solnechnogorsk, Gorky and Chinese geese.Lind geese belong to the category of heavy birds and appreciated for good reproduction quality and a large increase in meat.Their distinctive features are:
- large head with shishkoobraznym hump in the forehead;
- piebald plumage, gray or white;
- very strong and curved beak, which is located under the leathery fold;
- round, large eyes bright blue;
- massive, broad and long body with a skin fold in the abdomen.
Each goose can bring 30-45 eggs per year up to 150 grams.Derivation of chicks should be conducted in an incubator, since females underdeveloped brooding instinct.At the age of six months, the geese weigh around eight kilograms.Lind geese are not demanding the presence of the reservoir and grow well in enclosed pens without grazing on pastures.
Wanting to get a quick weight gain of birds of any breed, you should reduce the use of herbs and increase the amount of grain feed.Good results are obtained by using special vitamin supplements that promote the full development and reduce morbidity.
