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Good grief! Have they no redeeming value to offset all these negatives?
Serious question: is all that poop completely unuseable (like chicken poop,
rabbit droppings, etc.)? How do the commercial breeders of geese deal with all
this?

Sandy

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:15:27 -0600, "Marie McHarry" wrote:

> 
> On 12/19/06, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com> wrote:
> 
> > > ...Poop everywhere?
> >
> > Yes.  But not poop as one experiences with any other farmstead animal.  
> > The
> > are essentially grazing birds and their poop is half digested green slime 
> > and
> > they leave a copious trail of it wherever they go.
> 
> If you have more than a couple of geese, the stuff can become
> dangerous, causing slipping and sliding -- and extremely unpleasant if
> you actually go over into it.
> 
> The Chinese geese I had were most annoying, and they became the main
> course at Christmas dinner. They became so aggressive that we got into
> the habit of grabbing them by their necks and flinging them to stop
> their nipping at our legs and butts (for shorter folks). It didn't
> stop them, but it slowed them down some. Half-grown goslings are,
> however, great in the garden for weeding.
> 
> Marie
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