Gourmet Geese is an introduction to rearing Geese for meat, eggs or down by Best-selling author Norman J Stone. There are many reasons as to why you should consider raising these wonderful animals, and not just for their ‘produce’ they also make great companions, grass mowers and early warning systems – and they can live…;
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Gourmet Geese is an introduction to rearing Geese for meat, eggs or down by Best-selling author Norman J Stone.
There are many reasons as to why you should consider raising these wonderful animals, and not just for their ‘produce’ they also make great companions, grass mowers and early warning systems – and they can live for over 20 years! A fairly hardy animal, the Goose is easy to look after as long as you have the space for them to graze and forage.
In this ‘Homesteading Animals’ the third in the series; Norman presents a selection of the most popular domestic breeds, along with general care advice to enable you to keep good healthy and productive birds.
If you are keeping Geese for meat, then knowledge of how to go about dispatching and dressing the bird is a necessary part of animal husbandry. This is covered in the last section of this introduction to rearing Geese – book 3.