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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

> Good grief! Have they no redeeming value to offset all these negatives?
> Serious question: is all that poop completely unuseable

Imagine trying to gather up thin oatmeal to use as fertilizer.  If geese were 
confined and the pen had a generous amount of litter that was changed 
frequently, the droppings could be used to good effect.  Elsewise it is 
strictly 'in 
situ' and that situ can be in the most inconvenient places.

As far as a redeeming value, I am not one of those who deem roast goose as 
secondary in quality or something to be endured.  Slaughtered and processed 
appropriately, then cooked appropriately, nothing is better than roast goose. 
 But 
it's a LOT of trouble.  Water fowl aren't nearly as easily de-feathered as 
chickens and geese triply so because they are so big and the feathers are 
coarse.  Once a year will about do it.