There are many reasons for keeping geese—for eggs, meat, exhibition, as rare breeds, or just pets. Whatever your reason for choosing these fascinating birds, Chris Ashton explains how to look after them, from setting up with the first birds to breeding, rearing, and showing. Topics covered include breeds, their origin, and characteristics; an overview of different enterprises; management of adult stock; the breeding season; rearing the goslings; and ailments and diseases.
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Dr. Chris Ashton is a teacher by profession and a waterfowl breeder by choice. She and her husband live on a smallholding in Wales where they specialize in pure breeds of ducks and geese. They have developed their stock to be amongst the top waterfowl breeders in the UK over the last 25 years. Chris, together with Mike Ashton, has also written The Domestic Duck, Colour Breeding in Domestic Ducks, and The Indian Runner Duck. They both contribute regularly to Fancy Fowl and Smallholder magazines.
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This is by far the best and most complete book on the goose. It covers all breeds in depth and the deailed info on hatching geese it the best info to be found anywhere. This book is so complete that you do not even need any others.
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I found this book incredibly helpful for background and as a reference as I started raising geese this year. The author gives detailed information on the history of the goose, the different breeds and how to raise them, and most importantly to me, how to incubate and hatch goose eggs. If you are interested in keeping geese on a large or small scale, this book will be helpful.
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For people that want to know about geese, this is the book to get. It has excellent pictures and the terminolgy used is easy to understand .
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Geese have a fierce reputation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
buff goose, thigh coverts, heavy geese, breeder pellets, chick crumbs, gizzard worm, farmyard goose, exhibition birds, farmyard geese, common geese, farm goose, throat worms, young ganders, common goose, adult geese, tame geese, young goslings, buff backs, stock birds, domestic goose, domestic geese, breeding pens, white geese, early eggs, heavy breeds Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
American Buff, Brecon Buff, West of England, Hong Kong, Anderson Brown, British Waterfowl Association, Christopher Marler, Charnock Bradley, Description Carriage, John Hall, Tom Bartlett, Dairy Show, English Embdens, Far East New!
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Geese have a fierce reputation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
buff goose, thigh coverts, heavy geese, breeder pellets, chick crumbs, gizzard worm, farmyard goose, exhibition birds, farmyard geese, common geese, farm goose, throat worms, young ganders, common goose, adult geese, tame geese, young goslings, buff backs, stock birds, domestic goose, domestic geese, breeding pens, white geese, early eggs, heavy breeds Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
American Buff, Brecon Buff, West of England, Hong Kong, Anderson Brown, British Waterfowl Association, Christopher Marler, Charnock Bradley, Description Carriage, John Hall, Tom Bartlett, Dairy Show, English Embdens, Far East New!
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- World of Birds by Rh Value Publishing in Back Matter
- The Year of the Greylag Goose by Konrad Lorenz in Back Matter
- Waterfowl: Ducks, Geese and Swans of the World by Frank S. Todd in Back Matter
- Keeping Domestic Geese by Barabra Soames in Back Matter
- Races of Domestic Poultry (Cage & Aviary) by E. Brown in Back Matter
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- The Smallholder's Manual by Katie Thear in Back Matter
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