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pGeese birds of the family Anatidae of the order An seriformes. Their dimensions are quite large; they weigh from 2 to 6 kg. They have relatively long legs, which are better suited for walking than swimming. The bill is massive, and in some geese it is thick at the base. Geese feed predominantly on dry land or in the shallows. Their food is chiefly vegetable: stems and leaves, tubers, and seeds; arctic species feed in the shallows on small crayfish, mollusks, and the like. cheap Canada Goose The nests, on the ground or on rocks, are of grass and moss lined with down. There are five to eight eggs in a clutch. The female broods; both parents care for the young. In the USSR there are five genera (eight species) of geese, including the genus Anser, which includes the greylag goose, canada goose coats on sale the bean goose, the white fronted canada goose factory sale goose (A. albifrons), and the lesser white fronted buy canada goose jacket cheap goose (A. erythropus); the last two are found in the tundra and the forest tundra. The cheap canada goose uk Chinese goose is common in southern Siberia, from the Altai to Sakhalin; the mountain goose (Eulabeia indica) nests in the high mountain lakes of the Pamir, the Tien Shan, and the Altai; the emperor goose (Philacte canagica) is found in the extreme northeast of Siberia and in Alaska; and the snow goose is found on Vrangel Island and in arctic America. All geese are hunted.
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pDomestic geese are descended from the wild greylag goose, to which they bear a great external and anatomical resemblance. One may obtain 20 goslings from one goose in a year, and after fattening and slaughtering them, up to 100 kg of meat. Canada Goose Coats On Sale Geese are good foragers. They begin to lay eggs at the age of 265 days; if nurtured intensively, at 160 days. The a href=”https://www.canadagoose-coats.ca” rel=”friend met co-worker neighbor”online website/a egg laying a href=”https://www.canadagoose-coats.ca” rel=”friend met co-worker neighbor”canadagoose-coats/a period lasts from four to eight months, usually in the winter spring months. With artificial lighting, egg laying may also be induced in autumn. The egg laying capacity is 30 eggs, in some breeds up to 100. In contrast to hens, canada goose black friday sale the egg production of geese increases with age: by 15 percent in the second year over the first, by 30 percent in the third year, and in some breeds by 10 percent even at the age of five years. The average period for using a goose for breeding is five to six years, with a maximum of up to eight years. The sexual ratio within the flock is three or four female geese to one gander. Goslings are usually slaughtered for meat at the age of six months, when they weigh 3 kg; with intensive nurturing, in 60 canadian goose jacket days. The Canada Goose Outlet liveweight Canada Goose online of adult ganders is 5 kg, with a maximum of up to 12 kg; of female geese, 4 kg, canada goose with a maximum of up to 10 kg.
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pThe meat contains approximately 16 percent protein and approximately 35 percent fat. The caloric value for 100 g is 1.3 megajoules (about 320 kilocalories), higher than that of the meat of other species of agricultural fowl. In some countries (such as Hungary, Poland, and France), specialized production of goose livers, whose weight may reach 1 kg, is widely developed. Other important products of goose breeding are down, feathers, and downy hides. Goose fat is the best medication uk canada goose outlet for treating frostbite.
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pGeese are usually kept in pasture from May through October. Supplementary feeding with concentrates is minimal and, with pasturing on stubble, it is completely unnecessary. In the winter, part of the concentrates in the rations are replaced by coarse and succulent fodders. Geese are kept in unheated premises with natural lighting. Such a system lowers expenditures for feeding and maintaining canada goose store the fowl but does not assure high productivity; moreover, pasturing requires considerable areas (1 hectare of pasture, depending on its productivity, for 10 head per month).
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pWith an intensive system, geese are kept in heated poultry houses under conditions in which light is regulated (13 hours of light a day). In poultry houses in central and northern regions the number of geese over 5 kg of weight to a sq m is: breeding Canada Goose Online geese, 1; commercial geese, 1 In southern regions these figures are 1 and 1 respectively. For geese of lower weight the density is increased.
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pThe approximate food rations of adult geese during the breeding period (in grams per head per day) is: grain, 215; canada goose uk shop oilcake and oil seed meal, 30; succulent and green fodders, 200 grass meal, 70; yeast, 2; chalk and shells, 2 bone meal, 2 and table salt, 114 During the non breeding period, rations of succulent and green fodders are increased and grain is decreased. Fodders are left in the feed boxes overnight as well. There must be gravel and mineral fodders in the feeders.
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pIn the USSR, domestic breeds and populations of geese that are raised include Kholmogor, Arzamas, Large Gray, Pskov, Tula, Romny, Ural, Lithuanian, Gorky, Dzhavakhe tia, and Solnechnogorsk. Geese imported from other countries include Toulouse and Rouen (France), Pomeranian and Emden (German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany), White Banat and Fr Danube (Rumania), Straw Pilgrim and Mangrill (USA), White Bulgarian, White Czechoslovak, local Hungarian, and the Canada goose.
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pREFERENCESPenionzhkevich, E. E. Parody gusei i utok v SSSR. Moscow, 1954.
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pSmetnev, S. E. Ptitsevodstvo, 5th ed. Moscow, 1970.
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pSel ptitsa, vol. 1. Edited by E. E. Penionzhkevich. Moscow, 1962.
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pE. E. PENIONZHKEVICH
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pAn impromptu circus, fox and geese, and an amicable game of croquet finished the afternoon. View in context
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pOf the geese outside the side gate who come waddling after me with their long necks stretched out when I go that way, I dream at night: as a man environed by wild beasts might dream of lions. View in context
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pAnother sable warder (a carpenter, who had once eaten two geese for a wager) opened the door, and showed me into the best parlour. View in context
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pThe Red House was provisioned as if for a siege; and as for the Canada Goose sale spare feather beds ready to be laid on floors, they were as plentiful as might naturally be expected in a family that had killed its own geese for many generations. View in context
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pWorkmen are the geese that lay the golden eggs, but they fly away Canada Goose Parka sometimes. View in context
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pThe report had scarcely died away ere it was repeated and repeated from without in a scattering volley, shot behind shot, like a string of geese, from every side of the enclosure. View in context
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pAs the common size of the natives is somewhat under six inches high, so there is an exact proportion in all other animals, as well as plants and trees: for instance, the tallest horses and oxen are between four and five inches in height, the sheep an inch and half, more or less: their geese about the bigness of a sparrow, and so the several gradations canada goose clearance sale downwards till you come to the smallest, which to my sight, were almost invisible; but nature has adapted the eyes of the Lilliputians to all objects proper for their view: they see with great exactness, but at no great distance. View in context
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pand so saying, he seized a bucket and plunging it into one of the half jars took up three hens and a couple of geese, and said to Sancho, „Fall to, friend, and take the edge off your appetite with these skimmings until dinner time comes. View in context.
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