What Do Geese Eat?

A short video exploring the feeding habits of our geese. Nutrition is important, of course, but sometimes they just can’t help going for the odd treat..

What do geese REALLY eat? - grass mostly. They are grazers and can get all their nutrients from grassland. (They are not like ducks at all. Ducks dabble and filterfeed through streams and ponds - geese do not, though they do take in a lot of water.)

In winter geese need some additional feed - rolled oats are good but they'll chew on potatoes, swedes, turnips too. Chicken food is perfectly acceptable - but they just don't need too much of it and they need more bulk alongside it.

Geese have gizzards - where their food is ground up with small stones. These stones need topping up daily - so if they are not free-ranging you need to supply some rough sand or small gravel.

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