Geese are a relatively good poultry to breed, but because they are mostly in stocking mode, it is easy to cause some diseases in the wild. In addition, raising geese is not very important for health and it is easy to have some diseases.
Soft feet are a common disease of geese, especially young geese, mainly due to the lack of calcium, phosphorus and vitamin D in goose feed.
Dalong hard bones, improve the lameness, soft legs, and slow growth rate of poultry due to lack of nutrients or other reasons such as toxins.
Symptoms manifest
Sick geese have weak legs, and once overturned, it is difficult to stand, often two wings to support the ground to walk slowly, some joints are swollen and emaciated. After goose suffering from hypochondriasis, it is easy to secondary to other diseases such as colds and bronchitis and greatly increase mortality.
Due to different etiology, then the symptoms of foot softness will be slightly different, such as foot softness caused by viruses is manifested as limbs are intact is unable to stand up, and the goose paws or joints caused by bacterial infection will appear swollen, and the foot softness caused by malnutrition is manifested as goose paws are relatively dry, look lifeless, like withered leaves, and foot weakness caused by improper feeding management will generally occur with colds and other diseases. Finally, the foot weakness caused by its own metabolism will have obvious symptoms of breathing difficulties and whether the feet will twitch.
The main products of geese are wool, meat, eggs, fat liver, etc., although various geese produce these products, but the suitable uses of different species of geese vary.
Down type: The down of the white goose in western Anhui is white, the down is large, and the quality is the best. When some merchants collect live geese, the price of white geese of the same weight and white goose in western Anhui is higher. Live geese pluck feathers to collect down, and this breed should be chosen. However, the white goose in western Anhui produces few eggs and has poor reproductive performance, such as the combination of meat and hair, which can be introduced into Sichuan white goose and Rhine goose for hybridization.
Egg type: Open-eyed goose and seed goose are goose species with a large number of eggs, generally laying 14 kg of eggs per year, and high-yielding individuals can reach 20 kg. These two kinds of geese are relatively small, in addition to egg laying, they can also be used as mothers, and hybridize with larger goose species to produce meat geese, taking advantage of their good reproductive performance to reduce the production cost of meat goose seedlings.
Meat type: Goose species weighing more than 3 kg in the age of 60-70 can be used for meat. There are mainly Sichuan white goose, Gushi goose, Yangzhou goose, Rhine goose and so on.
Fat liver type: The introduced varieties of this type of goose mainly include Langde goose and Toulouse goose, and the domestic breeds mainly include lion's head goose and Pupu goose.
