How to feed goslings in the first days of life at home for beginners for rapid growth

Goslings are considered stronger and more resilient than young poultry. Diet selection is considered the most important element of bird care at an early age. By choosing the right food, you can ensure rapid weight gain and avoid diseases. Consider how to feed young goslings, how to make a complete diet for he althy and weakened babies.

Why is it important to properly feed goslings?

Most geese are slaughtered at 2-7 months of age. By this time, the bird should gain weight, grow to the desired condition. Little goslings have an undeveloped digestive system, like all newborns, so they need special feed. The right diet helps:

• grow quickly, gain mass;
• avoid indigestion, digest food well;
• protect the body from infections, parasites, other diseases, strengthen immunity.

Feeding starts with foods that are most easily digested at a young age. An important element of feeding is chopping food so that the babies do not choke, and the digestive organs cope with the load. Then gradually small portions introduce other components. The digestive tract gets used to new products, babies receive the substances necessary for growth and development.

Feeding table for goslings by age

Feeding goslings hatched in an incubator and hatched by a bird in a natural way is carried out according to general rules. The diet is regularly adjusted by increasing portions and adding products. For rapid growth, the bird should be provided with walking, exposure to the sun and fresh air.

After birth

At home, in the early days, poultry farmers, according to tradition, start feeding with the simplest and most natural product - eggs. As soon as the babies hatched, the fluff dried up, they immediately organize feeding. Eggs are boiled hard in advance, the yolk is broken into crumbs, diluted with boiled water to a state of gruel.

Goslings need 8 feedings, small portions are given so that in a couple of hours the baby is hungry and eats again. Depending on the condition of the young, some poultry breeders finely crush grits or grain for day-old goslings, chop the grass and mix it into the egg porridge.

It is important to watch the goslings when they eat, to make sure that everyone gets it, no one chokes.

2-10 days

From 2 days in summer in warm weather, goslings can be released into the aviary. Food is given in small containers, from which it is convenient for babies to get it. Approximate product introduction by day:

• second - egg, greens, chopped grain with husks, milk (skimmed or dry);
• third - green onions, nettles, clover, legume tops, grains, carrots;
• fourth - boiled potatoes, root vegetables, cottage cheese, carefully broken peas.

After the 5th day, acceptable foods are combined so that the diet is balanced and varied. Consumption rates are shown in the table.

Starting from the 6th day, fresh vegetables are included in the diet, after chopping them into small pieces. You can cook cereals (millet, corn), mix cottage cheese, shells into the feed. In the diet of 10-day-old goslings, feed of animal origin is required - bone and fish meal, shellfish.

Reference: from a week old goslings are fed 6 times a day, portions are increased.

11-21 days

If there are good places for walking, during the day the young animals feed on their own - they eat grass, roots, fruits, shells. When grown without water, shellfish can be brought in and mixed into the feed.

In 2 weeks the goslings got stronger, they can master large portions at a time, they are transferred to a 5-time feeding. To saturate the body with vitamins, special compound feeds for young goose (PC-31) are introduced into the diet.

Piece is pre-steamed with boiling water, enriched with yeast. Potatoes should be no more than a tenth of the diet. Crushed cereals, grains are fed at night in the summer. Goslings perfectly digest this food. The nutrition of young animals is supplemented with seasonal vegetables and melons - pumpkin, zucchini, carrots. The volume of these ingredients is one fifth of the diet.

3 weeks and older

Fresh green grass is the main food in summer for 3-week-old goslings. When free-range, the site is inspected so that there are no poisonous plant species. Good for goslings:

• beetroot, carrot, legume tops;
• clover, alfalfa, dandelion, sorrel.

Monthly goslings have the amount of green fodder - 2/3 of the total diet, about 200 grams. The menu includes a variety of products, including meat and fish meal, shellfish. All types of birds eat well the leftovers from the master's table. Grain and waste from the mill are given at night, young animals quickly gain weight on high-calorie feed.

Table of norms for different types of products in grams per day for goslings:

Age in days1-56-10 11-2021-3031-4041-50 Grains 100Carrot 520 3 5 60100200300500 4 1428252517 50 1 199

						51-60
15	21	41	97	97	97
	20	20					Wheat bran
6	13	40	50	50	60		Chopped greens
20						Animal Feed	2
					Milk	25	50
					Shells	0.3	0.5
3	4	4	5		Daily feed amount	55.3	121.5
288	376	476	682

Diet including boiled potatoes (grams per day)

30355555 60Carrot5Wheat Bran3515 40404030Chopped greens53060 130200200300 Crushed potatoes 100120130225Milk 2550Shells 0.30.51.523.53.53.5Piece 2525Animal Feed2 7 131.5 176.5362473.5 582.5673.5

	Age in days
	1-5	6-10	11 -20	21-30	31-40	41-50	51-60
Grains	15	15
	20	40
4	15	25	25
15	30	30	30	30		Daily feed amount	55.3

In the heat, more succulent feed is introduced into the diet, the grain is left for the last feeding. Goslings are fed according to the regime or allowed to eat at will, providing constantly filled feeders. If the regimen is not adhered to, goslings often overeat, which leads to indigestion and a set of excess fat mass.

At 2 months old goslings are adults, most of the day they can be on the run, at this time they get food themselves. It is important to keep track of what grows in places where geese feed. Beneficial Herbs:

• nettle:
• dandelion;
• wild onions, garlic;
• knotweed;
• marsh duckweed;
• meadow grass;
• spurge;
• wheatgrass;
• horsetail.

In the places of walking they put drinking bowls with fresh water, geese drink a lot. When grown at home, a mixed type of diet is usually used. They give dry compound feed, make wet mashes with juicy vegetables, cereals, boiled potatoes, cake, tops.

What is forbidden to give?

The goslings grab everything they can get, so the half-eaten soiled food from the pallets is removed. What foods should be excluded from the diet:

• hard dry herbs, thick dried stems and tops;
• expired additives, premixes, animal feed;
• any feed with traces of mold, spoilage;
• potatoes with greenery and its tops;
• herbs that can cause poisoning - quinoa, ragweed, sedge, lily of the valley.

Fermentation in the intestines of babies causes fresh rye. Young animals are not given wet, cold grass, they are not allowed to walk immediately after rain.

Nursing weak goslings

Unhe althy goslings do not eat well, are inactive, huddle together. Poultry farmers must separate weakened babies from the main population, provide enhanced care and a balanced diet:

• check for parasites, deworm, remove ectoparasites;
• maintain heat in the house: at the age of 7 days - 28 °, in the future - not lower than 22 °;
• heat with lamps if necessary;
• add fish oil when feeding.

Patients are given a nutrient mixture with the addition of an antibiotic - beaten yolk is diluted in 100 milliliters of skimmed milk, sugar is added at the tip of a teaspoon. Penicillin is dissolved in the mixture at the age dosage for young animals and drunk.

Expert Tips

Caring for newborn goslings is especially difficult. When buying young animals for beginner poultry farmers, week-old babies who are already a little stronger are more suitable. Recommendations from gosling breeders:

1. The first 7-10 days goslings are best kept indoors, especially in cool weather.
2. The temperature in the poultry house is maintained at 22-28 °. In extreme heat, babies find it difficult to breathe, if it is too cold, they huddle together and crush each other.
3. Until a week old, the lamps are kept on all the time, the lights are dimmed at night.
4. When preparing the feed, the consistency is monitored - a wet, crumbly, finely chopped mixture is prepared without signs of stickiness and viscosity.
5. Use tap or filtered water to drink.
6. Inventory, dishes are washed regularly, bedding is partially replaced every other day.
7. The diet includes mineral supplements - chalk, s alt, crushed shells and small stones. They are displayed in separate containers or mixed with food.
8. A grain of potassium permanganate is added to the water.
9. If babies are coughing, swallowing hard, shaking their head, the food may be too dry, large or hard.
10. When growing, it is important to consider the recommendations for a particular breed of geese.

The condition of the young animals is constantly monitored, when alarming signs appear, patients are separated, provided with special care.

Reference: Grass should be introduced into the diet, harsh ingredients that cleanse the digestive tract.

He althy goslings run a lot, regularly visit the feeder. New feed is introduced in small portions, monitoring the condition of the bird. Livestock he alth, rapid growth and development depend on the right diet. The quality and composition of the feed influence the taste and nutritional characteristics of the meat.

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