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  • From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] weeder geese
  • Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:10:53 -0700

That's the rub. You have to get goslings that haven't been exposed to other geese and essentially "train" them. You may spend more time raising and training the geese than you would have spent weeding. If you get adults, they often already have bad habits and they pass those bad habits to the others in the flock. Nowadays we use lots of mulch for weed control and encourage garter snakes to control the slugs. Much easier to deal with than geese.
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On Jun 19, 2009, at 7:58 AM, Kevin Moore wrote:

The information I have says 4-6 geese per acre. If you feed them your most common weeds as goslings they will eat them and leave your veggies alone.

From: Kieran &/or Donna <holycow@frontiernet.net>
To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 9:26:24 PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] weeder geese

Back when I thought I wanted geese, I came across info on small weeder geese that were used in  cotton fields in the south.  A dozen geese could do the work of one man with a hoe.  They ran them in the fields early in the season, they ate the grass and produced a luxury meat crop to sell.  They were really necessary during the world wars when manpower was short.  I'd think that some of the organic cotton growers ought to get in on it. 
    Likewise it seems that for strawberries the geese are brought in early and get the grass out before the plants get going good.  It's not like they are standing around on the berries in picking season.  The trick is not too many geese, just enough to do the job.    Donna

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