Lion's head geese are good to raise because of their size and food intake, but if you want to grow up fast, it will be costly to just feed them. However, lionhead geese are herbivorous poultry and can be fed with pasture and forage. So, how can geese grow fast? Let's take a look: what do lionhead geese eat to grow fast and well? Detailed feeding ratio attached. Chicks can be fed 20-30% rice and mixed fodder and 70-80% green fodder after shelling. In addition, the diet should be given 2-3% of bone meal, shellfish 0.5%, salt 0.3% and other minerals. 11-20 days old chicks are mainly fed green fodder, the ratio of concentrate to green fodder is 1: 4-8. At this time, the chicks can eat grass, and the number of feedings can be reduced to 4-5 times during the day and 1 time at night.

21-30 days old goslings physical ability and digestive ability to improve. The ratio of concentrated feed to green feed is 1:9-12. feed 2-3 times during the day and 1 time at night, and the grazing time can be gradually extended. The nutritional level of the lion's head goose diet is 16%-17.5% crude protein, 5%-6% crude fiber, 2.20%-2.60% calcium, 0.6%-0.7% phosphorus, 0.69% lysine, 0.32% methionine, and 0.3% salt. Feed about three times a day, 150-200g per goose per day. you can feed again around 11pm for better results. The geese should also be provided with 20%-25% green feed, and the goose house and exercise yard should be set up with feed cans and clean shell pellets, so that the geese can eat freely to meet the demand for minerals in the breeding geese.

Breeding geese start feeding one month before laying eggs. Based on the shape of the goose droppings, determine whether the amount of concentrate and roughage in the diet is appropriate. If the goose feces are thick and loose, and can be divided into several segments with a gentle stomp of the foot, it means that the concentrates, roughage, and greens are properly matched; if the goose feces are small and strong, it means that there are more concentrates and fewer greens, and they should be adjusted. Adult geese need a certain degree of free-range, because they eat more, usually only a few hours after eating, so we let the geese go out to feed themselves, not only to satisfy their appetite, but also to refresh and promote their growth, and quickly enter the egg-laying period. Of course, we need to feed concentrate at least twice a day to fatten the geese. Raising geese in a reasonable time can shorten the time from input to output and speed up the turnover of capital, thus improving labor productivity and economic benefits. However, due to the different varieties of geese, their slaughter enterprises are different. General small goose varieties 60-70 days old weight 2.5-3 kg, medium goose varieties 70-80 days old weight 3-4 kg, large goose varieties 80-90 days old weight 4-5 kg or more.

Lion's head geese usually start laying eggs around 6 months. Lionhead geese are big and square. Mother geese are particularly good at laying eggs, with a first hatch age of 160-180 days, which is normally controlled at around 220-250 days. Generally, the eggs are laid from September of the current year to April of the following year, and are generally divided into 3~4 egg-laying periods, each of which can produce about 6~10 eggs. In the first laying period, 24 eggs are laid, with an average egg weight of about 170g and a milky white eggshell. The breeding of male geese is generally over 200 days. female geese over 2 years old lay about 30 eggs per year, with an average egg weight of about 200g. Although the lion's head goose is the largest goose species in the poultry industry, it feeds mainly on grass, vegetables and other plants. You can feed lionhead geese with ryegrass, rice hulls, and soybean meal and it will grow nice and extra strong. These feeding materials are common in the countryside, so the cost of feeding is low.