The lives of Geese

In Germany, Austria and Switzerland today for thousands of farmers worry about lead that flock of geese can be a carefree life - day after day, year after year.

What contribution do geese in agriculture?

Geese in agriculture have a long history. Already the Romans and Deutsch were the birds. At that time it was estimated the animals for their feathers and meat. What we now know as the domestic goose, is the domesticated form of the Grey Goose, which was then kept as such, probably even more happy. The breeding and training race in geese took place largely in Europe.

Optical is today mostly associated with the goose, the white feathered animal. It is the domestic goose. This was originally gray. Even in the domestic white goose rarely occur even color differences. The plumage of the animals can also be partly bluish, brown, gray or mottled. The geese in agriculture today are held for various purposes. First, there are eggs to be won. These are some places a local specialty dar. Secondly, the geese kept as beef cattle and slaughtered. Especially on St. Martin and many people like to eat at Christmas goose. Another popular product is the foie gras. Processed into pie she is widely regarded as a delicacy.

However, the need to plug the animals in Germany, Austria and Switzerland is forbidden. The foie gras, which is found ultimately in the pie comes mostly from animals that were imported from France, Italy or Hungary. Depending on what the goose should be used, it is kept in agriculture in different ways. Because they can deliver up to 60 eggs, is one of the application fields of the goose with the security posture than laying goose. Geese are kept, however, to be slaughtered again. Here is the meat used. No longer than eight months it will take, as a rule, to reach their slaughter weight of chicks. This is around five kilos.

Should, depending on whether the animals are fattened intensively or by grazing fattening brought to their weight, it takes shorter or longer to bring the desired kilos on the scales. Who would like to draw on geese from an agriculture in which they also humanely were held, which is well-advised to rely on domestic animals. Usually the attitude is here in small businesses. While in the U.S. are the main mast is operated industrially, in Eastern European countries, the housing conditions are often not connected to the animals humanely and with anguish.