[penninehillbilly]

Hi
we buy 'pony carrots' for the goats (sacks of carrots for £1).
would it be OK to feed them to geese. they are chopped into 'matchsticks' with a kitchen gadget (knew I would find a use for it someday), and in this cold weather I have been giving them a handful between 3 of them for a bit more bulk. could I give them more when they can't get much grass. they also get wheat and currently getting wholemeal bread chopped into small cubes (waste from a friends sandwich making business)

[RichardA]

cant speak about geese but we shave carrots with a potato peeler and feed shavings to our ducks along with other peelings, scrap bread, cabbage leaves etc.
R

[8doubles]

Wild geese are sometimes a pest in the Fens with the damage they do to carrot crops by rasping the tops off in cold weather.They like them best when the frost has softened them and they are easier to eat.
Shredded carrot should be fine.

[orchardlady]

I'm no expert on geese but I'm sure that carrots will do them no harm. Do they have any goose/duck layers pellets in their diet? I feed my hens and ducks in the afternoon wheat but also go and give the pellet feeder a shake to get the last of the days pellets out. While  most of the hens are gobbling up the wheat the ducks charge across to gobble up the remaining pellets, so maybe your geese would enjoy those to. I think most poultry will eat what's good for them most of the time and if they turn their beaks up to the carrots it's probably because they don't need so much.

If you have a dog try him/her on the carrot peelings. They love them raw or steamed.

[penninehillbilly]

Thanks, I don't normally give them layers until later in winter, but maybe this year they need more help. they do get cooked peelings during winter (cook them up just before feeding, allow to cool so safe to feed but still warm). just wasn't sure about them raw. I always worry I'm not feeding them enough when the grass is covered for days/weeks. they also get rolled barley and 'readygrass' when no grass is showing.

If you have a dog try him/her on the carrot peelings. They love them raw or steamed
Our dog is a very fussy eater, eventually eats his own food after great consideration, most of our other dogs have had a full raw carrot instead of a bone, not this one!