My Simple Backyard Grazing System (for Geese)

[@pinkyfromhaughtfarms6550]

Thank you for being an ethical farmer. I am a vegetarian for these exact reasons. I understand people eat meat, that's not what upsets me, it's how factory farming is conducted that pisses me off. People need to know where their food comes from, this disconnect that is happening is one thing that's wrong with our broken food system. I have mad respect for people who raise their own meat. I personally could never do it, so that's why I dont eat it. I do source local and humanely raised meat for my husband and son, who are not vegetarian but I still choose to not eat it. I understand this is not an option for everyone, finances or availability where they may live, but that's something that we as people need to work on. Making good, clean, ethical food available to everyone. Love your channel Morgan, keep up the great content💚

[@Berkeloid0]

You have a very nice attitude - instead of trying to force people to follow your idea, you lead by example, very noble.

[@cajunjamis9001]

@K Korona Different strokes...…….?

[@GoldShawFarm]

Thanks, Pinky!

[@pinkyfromhaughtfarms6550]

@K Korona *you're. Troll much? Have a great day✌😁

[@pinkyfromhaughtfarms6550]

@@Berkeloid0 Thank you so much for your kind words💛

[@reighost8399]

Your fan-crush on Eduardo is hilarious~! XD Thanks for the pure entertainment!

[@paulcourts3627]

When I had rabbits and chickens I used a maggot feeder to dispose of guts after butchering. I saved heart liver kidney to feed dog and cats but everything else went into 5 gallon bucked with holes for flies to get in and maggots to get out. I hung this bucket in chicken run and when maggots fall to ground chickens get protein.

[@sakarikokotala9160]

I do the same maggot bucket. Some family members do dispatching on a large scale and use a chest freezer just for my pail.

[@mosesmboka6520]

And the smell?

[@connorhaley3190]

Sounds great, but didn’t he have a problem with too many flies around the cattle?

[@MrBenjaminoneill]

What about attracting predators? Our foxes in the UK would love that and smell it from 8 miles away before it got too wretched...

[@littleozarksfarmstead]

Doesn't get any better than a hot cup of coffee and Gold Shaw Farm on Monday mornings 👍💕

[@GoldShawFarm]

Thank you!

[@odeimaginations5267]

It's amazing how readily the ducks start heading to their house when you start yelling "all ducks go to bed!" I love watching your videos! I showed these to my girlfriend and she thought you seemed like the most honest and likeable person in the world. I agree with her :D

[@Steve-ps6qw]

You can throw your leg up pretty high to get over that fence...I would have face planted inside the enclosure and then gotten mobbed by geese as the fed would have spilled everywhere...I need a gate, lol.

[@GoldShawFarm]

Ha! That's the benefit of regular yoga practice.

[@farmermaster9314]

Lol

[@ephantusmacharia6096]

I love it

[@rosepomarico6841]

Oh my goodness I wouldn't share those tasty livers! They're so good for you. Freeze those puppies and have them all year. I just did my chicken butcher, and I kept all the gizzards and livers. So good over rice and veggies! 😋

[@kierstynn711]

I noticed your chickens don't have a roost (perch) to sleep on. With chickens at night to regulate their temperatures they sit on there feet on a perch or something, it would be very beneficial for your chickens for them to have a roost or perch.

[@austenhead5303]

And easy to build. I'm with Kierstynn. Come on, Mr. Ethical Farmer, make your chickens a perch.

[@australorp]

We are watching a very successful channel

[@deleo2541]

So tempting to just run through the fields singing ‘The Sound of Music’ 😂

[@jaridkeen123]

I always look forward to these videos!

[@kittypewpew]

"Great freezer in the sky" :D

[@italicbudz]

Those plants though! They look beautiful! 😍

[@vmcougarintn5035]

Geese are loud! I think that is why we can't raise them in our subdivision. But, when the wild geese drop in for a visit, oh my! The sound is wonderful and they love my "not" grass too! (as well as the neighbor's pool) LOL Keep on truckin'. You are doing fine.

[@meteoman7958]

Actually, it's keep on duckin'.

[@vmcougarintn5035]

@@meteoman7958 lol

[@GoldShawFarm]

Ha!

[@FarmerE]

I´m amazed you even have geese in your drone shots! Great video!

[@TealStoneHomestead]

I love your channel!! My husband and I live in town while we are paying off our student loans, but were are starting to grow our own food and raise rabbits for meat. We love our rabbits!! When our loans are paid off we plan on getting a small farm :)

[@Fulltimer]

Somehow you need to get your tractors and geese to the tree farm. Keep trees clear and fertilized.

[@GoldShawFarm]

The trees just need to be a little bigger and then that will be the plan. Right now the geese would defoliate the trees. But next year will probably be the year.

[@icer255]

@@GoldShawFarm Great idea, but the I think the ducks and chickens can't reach the foliage of the trees now. But chickens like to dig out plants. :(

[@ScarletCandlelight]

I was surprised how fast my ducks learned to go to bed

[@KawaiiKasai]

First video of your's I've seen and I got so excited about your NOLA shirt lol (I'm about an hour north of there) Great video, can't wait to dive into your other content!

[@carlesinseattle7660]

vos oies sont tellement amusantes à regarder, votre sens de l'humour est excellent et votre travail de caméra avec les oies est parfait!

[@wykeishacraft6820]

I say you could get your geese's and tractor to a 🌲 farm , this is a great video with nice little 🏠 for the geese's. Great work ,keep it up

[@eli3568]

The way you run your farm is the way all food should be produced. The fact that people are willing to do that to an animal just for a delicacy that is entirely unnecessary...I mean that says something about a person's soul. God forbid people eat a goose liver that isn't excessively fatty...I agree with you. There is nothing unethical about eating meat - provided that the process is ethical. Glad that you are doing it the right way. I'm planning to start a farm operation of some sort, and your channel is an inspiration.

[@christianjorgensen4621]

Holy smoke that duckling grew up fast!

[@MistressOP]

ty for Blush the band at the end of the song. I found a new band and I'm pumped!

[@jeanniegriffin1692]

Happy to see that, Little Guy, is comfortable, lol🖖🤠

[@Bmatty817]

Hey man love your channel I live in the Boston area and i started raising ducks because of your channel! I started with pekin and cayuga you should get some cayuga for your farm!

[@RahonaStream]

Thanks to you I trained my khaki campbell ducks to go to bed when I tell them to. Thank you! I've never had such well behaved ducks.

[@surplusdivision2461]

I never feed our geese, grass only. They are free range on my dad’s 120 acer farm. We use them for soil enrichment on our orchard. I didn’t realize I probably have thousands of dollars worth of Foie gras.

[@stankatsura1235]

For a minute there you looked like Keyser Sose :)

[@johnstjean1422]

Order my geese there coming in June looking forward having them

[@TheSpiritBaby]

I went on a “lifestyle change” (because the diet word is illegal!) two years ago, stopped birth control two and a half years ago, reduced stress, and this year is the first year I have gotten pregnant three consecutive times! This past pregnancy was three months and they keep getting longer. I’m now trying to get more frequent blood tests and thinking about how to make sure hcg grows correctly without interruption. My periods evened out this year and I really believe I owe it to those ginger teas, pomegranate and grapefruit blends, and general lifestyle change (staying away from high sugar, low fiber foods) and eating based on my blood type and to encourage fertility. Look into it! ❤

[@brieannerice5862]

We rotationally graze our geese with our dairy sheep to utilize the most pasture possible.They don't need the choicest bits of forage so it works really well. You could also run your geese behind ruminants if you take the ruminants out sooner.

[@icer255]

Great system, you could also run the chickens after the geese have eaten the grass down. So through their scratching and pooping they make the grass grow even higher after each run. Have a look at Richard Perkins from Sweden on KZbin. Thanks for sharing your story from Germany

[@monicareid8858]

I absolutely LOVE duck liver (and hearts and gizzards-but the liver is choice!) I bet you can preserve your duck and goose liver as they do for fröi gras (sP?) and sell it as a humane luxury food. Especially to gourmet restaurants in NY. Heck-I’d want them!

[@id6673]

Absolutely love this! Thanks for the videos.

[@urkiddingme6254]

I've known about the fois gras horror show for decades I really could have gone the rest of my life without that graphic video. Probably won't sleep tonight. Sigh. This is why I stopped reading mail from PETA.😱 But it's good you're educating people.

[@Infinite8blue]

Love your editing and memes

[@retrolyrical9967]

I have ducks of my own and I love watching your videos keep the great content up

[@lolelelo2210]

I love how all the ducks run back home into their house when he calls.

[@WatermelonLover]

“Great Freezer In The Sky” 🤣🤣🤣

[@patricksullivan9773]

Have you ever made goose jerky? Not sure about the domestic birds, but for the Greater Canadians we simply breast them out and grind it and season for jerky dehydration. We have made it side by side with deer venison and the same seasonings and most people who try them both favor the goose jerky in blind taste testing. I would imagine you could simply add the livers into the ground breasts as a filler into the jerky mix. If you are trying to monetize your farming jerky is quite expensive and is a tasty way to cure and preserve your efforts. I highly recommend trying this. Other than goose jerky, I am not a fan of the goose meat prepared in any other fashion so this is really the only option I see for use.

[@honeycaffena4897]

Thanks for the information, can you share about eggs?

[@pepecocomax]

I'm so confused if that gentleman doesn't fence his geese in how does he protect them against preditors. Love, love, love you videos. They are always so entertaining.

[@cynthiafisher9907]

I think he’s in Europe and they don’t have as many predators maybe?

[@AJR-zg2py]

Some areas have no natural predators that threaten their livestock. Shepherds in the UK for example let their sheep roam freely because there are no wolves, coyotes or bears. I imagine that man in Spain doesn't have to worry either about his geese for similar reasons.

[@carlesinseattle7660]

foie d'oie, j'aimerais bien y goûter! Merci pour l'idée !

[@saeedoc]

nice camera shots man. your channel getting better and better.good luck.

[@moments955]

I have one goose among 12 ducks and she's a fussy bugger. I've read about what to feed them in the winter (in addition to waterfowl feed) so they have a proper goose diet throughout the season but she's sooooo fussy. She tosses whatever I give her (trying to get her used to what we'd like to give her). I'm still working on it but hoping she accepts something soon as winter is right around the corner. Maybe she'll change her tune when she doesn't have the option of grass, but honestly she likes the waterfowl feed and I feel she'll just pound that down

[@Popupong]

For those wondering, the song at the end is "Blush" by Velvet Moon.

[@nineallday000]

We rotate 18 geese along with 3 sheep on 1.5 acres and it works out great, so i dont think your estimate is that far off. We buy food for the winter. We use regular electric fence wire, the geese will respect 1 line (have done it before) but we have 4 anyways now because of the sheep. A lot cheaper and easier i think than mesh electric netting (and a bit more lifespan, hopefully)

[@WhopYaJaw808]

0:16 hey some nice "HERBS" hahaha 😏

[@cynthiamcwhorter6721]

I saw that too

[@TheMischief9]

….. me too ….. lol

[@bobthedog3337]

The geese eat it, get the munchies, then put on liver fat. They have trouble getting into the fridge, though.....

[@denisebauman7682]

there's also the option re: smaller footprint land wise, of sprouted fodder/or sprouting fodder for feed...there are a lot of good resources online on how to go about that-and if one has a space to do it in year round, then it also ensures fresh food for them in winter.

[@thekatt...]

I'll bet buddy's pate tastes amazing. A mix with wild genetics, and all natural foods . So much richer I'll bet. I wasn't ready for that footage tho. Already traumatized by that one yrs ago. But thanx for bringing more awareness to the public. Haven't eaten the stuff myself. But if it came from yours or his ducks ...I would try it. ❤️❤️❤️🇨🇦☕️☕️

[@ruth_6303]

Your ducks are quiet during roll call. 👏🏽 😊

[@ephantusmacharia6096]

It's good my guy I love your work

[@SgtSnausages]

Muscovy do just fine as grazers. I haven't fed mine in years. They graze 9 acres here, 2 ponds of about 1.25 acre total. Don't even have to feed them through winter. They find enough all Winter long. i guess that would depend on snow cover. We generally only accumulate snow in Jan and Feb. Even then, 50-60% of the days have no snow on the ground.

[@SgtSnausages]

I forgot my main point : Muscovy Duck, in my opinion, are every bit as "sustainable".

[@biglee13m]

"Great freezer in the sky" - Morgan Gold

[@muddyfeetaussies]

Love ducks chickens and geese.. other than they are way messier then chick during brooding stage :) however geese for the win on letting them be lawnmowers.. second would be ducks for eating grasses less feed for short term production (peking) for putting meat into the freezer .. oh not to mention I have australian shepherds and training them to work stock.. don't have space for sheep goats.. too.. chickens are cool.. done the cornish cross thing. Chickens are really really good at tick removal plus their digging is very useful along the stone wall and the house clearing weeds etc.. if you don't have any gardens.. there.. :) just wish getting geese was not so expensive.. oh both ducks and geese are loud.. little buggers like to talk and mess up their daily routine or they feel like you changed something they express it. :) But really most of the time they are pretty quiet..

[@131dyana]

Love the geese. Clover is good food for geese.

[@mirianoyola9189]

Love ur video! I was researching that organs are very nutritious for dogs.

[@samanthayates7275]

The geese are so big!! 😍😍😍

[@RedRubyFarm]

Love your channel ! I have been wanting to get some geese & your information is very helpful!

[@terencechandler845]

Good on ya man I like your style

[@johngordon6161]

Great T-Shirt in this episode!

[@SidBelcher]

It all tastes like chicken 😂 - I'm no chef, but I did stay the night at a holiday inn express.

[@landryabraham642]

Love geese whit there noises ❤😂❤😂❤

[@scubaguy5389]

being a farmer is hard work. damn

[@Steve-ps6qw]

I could hear the coyote activity....we had one jump a fence last week as it entered our neighborhood. My daughters boyfriend saw it when coming to pick her up at 06:30....I have heard them chattering away around midnight to 1 a.m. one winter night....I was shocked to hear them as I thought there were none in Miami Dade county.

[@builtontherockhomestead9390]

Part-Time Permies. Mike is a chef.

[@MrsStevenBrown]

Look into the “heavy buttermilk/dairy/corn” mash that Bresse French Chickens are fed near the end of their production. No force feeding, but they are caged after pasture and fed this corn/buttermilk mash to fatten up on in the last two weeks....maybe add the mash to the last 3 weeks of the production time...it could produce a more fatty liver naturally..and better marbling in the meat.

[@letssaveearth4398]

I❤️ geese

[@garyseitz6166]

I like your system.. I'm in Alaska and in winter we get 4 or 5 feet accumulation of snow and no foraging for months. I'm wondering of the 30 geese are you overwintering ome of them, or do you have breeders separate rearing young geese.. Wile those are grazing on pastures...

[@MistressOP]

if you are in the burbs and want to set up a small goose system. do muscovy ducks they are basically gooses and they don't make much noise

[@tenmilechicks]

Hmm, so you might recommend 15 geese per acre? Do you maintain this system through your summer months? If so, how hot do your summer months get and how long do the highest degrees last before cooling down again? How often do you change their bathing water? How long is one roll of netting and how many are using for your geese? With it being electric can we assume that it keeps most of the 4 legged bad guys out?

[@elisaa1620]

You talk a lot with your hands .. it’s hypnotizing 👁‍🗨 ...😂👍🏻

[@GoldShawFarm]

😂🤣 it’s my secret to get people to keep watching videos 🤫

[@elisaa1620]

Gold Shaw Farm let me tell you this, I have no intention in raising, touching, feeding or eating ; goose ducks or any sort of bird !! But you do make it so interesting and the loving way you do it you my friend got my hook into watching your vids ! I love nature. And love the old way of life fermented pepper of all kinds hot or mild 🌶 i also make yogurt !! I wish you success in accomplishing your dreams and goals !!!

[@mannurse7421]

Bruh that Tshirt. I want it.

[@garymckenzie7342]

Love the “Defend New Orleans” tee shirt.

[@xyooj96]

how much feed do you go thru for your 31 geese? which breed is the quietest geese?

[@JBluegrassBanjoLab]

I like to see the harvest process for the geese....

[@GoldShawFarm]

I might show it.

[@JBluegrassBanjoLab]

@@GoldShawFarm

[@batpherlangkharkrang7976]

Hi..... 🎥👍👍👍

[@jperiksen]

I noticed the 2 pot bushes in the center of your garden there

[@charlethemagne5466]

Really enjoy your videos and your positivity is preety infectious, that's a sub from me

[@kennethbutler1343]

I wonder if the geese like to spend the night with any "friend" geese in the 3 pens, or is it just random which goose ends up with which?

[@ctraltdel6510]

Did you clip a wing for the ducks and geese? I'm new to this, looking for ideas.

[@jeanettecook1088]

Nice video... do you find that your geese tear at the poultry netting fence? How many do you keep per acre?

[@patricacompton9603]

If you feed them frozen corn like we get from the grocery store, just make sure its organic. They will get a fatty liver because they LOVE the taste of it and will eat it up to excess if you let them. Just be careful how much you give them. Some will go to extremes over fresh or frozen corn. Chickens love it too.

[@kmcquack8989]

Are geese ever loud at night or super early in the morning? Do they have a time of day they are loudest?

[@MistressOP]

you should redo the house system to one big greenhouse house. for next year. i honestly think geese is the future of xmas in the usa. if you find the right people for the right market. geese and turkey are going to be so important for small farmers and meduim farmers. it's very hard for big farms to do goose right. they can't even fake it.

[@entropyrules43]

I feel like you've answered this in one of the videos I've watched, but do the geese stay in these houses year round? I'm in Maine and trying to figure out what to do with these if I decide to keep two over the winter.

[@josephtufts7649]

Well your speaking to a guy who is bonkers about Honkers. And Goose liver tacos might be up your alley

[@cynthiabrennemann3513]

Oy. If you could only ship. I've been scouring the area for goose for thanksgiving and I adore a good pate made from duck, goose, and pork liver, even if it is not foie gras.

[@persephonedgheim6796]

how many acres is your farm and how much was it all. did you buy a house on the farm or off the farm. was the house in livable condition.

[@legionofknightsgaming6890]

How does your geese not fly off? Are their wings clipped or do they just not fly off because its their home?

[@WeekdaysWithTheWatkins]

Can you post a link to your fencing you use?

[@lasobaranch9994]

cool video, thanks for sharing

[@elroy8272]

My friend cooked liver with garlic then dried into jerky for her show dogs.

[@LWren-nr6ud]

A better alternative for backyards would be muscovy ducks as they are very quiet but also eat a lot of vegetation and the males get to a large size.

[@bonniecaudill1264]

Very low in fat and they are wonderful to raise.

[@spacealien3073]

:c Yeah a while back I was reading up on domestic geese breeds and learned that toulouse geese are commonly used for foie gras and it made me feel terrible for them. Like geese are cool birds people shouldn't torture them to make specific dishes so hopefully more people choose to be like you and find ways to produce fatty livers in a far more ethical way.

[@evavenizelou2134]

Can you please tell me what you use for fencing them?

[@grahammccoll1681]

Do you have plans for those geese tractors and do they remain there in the winter too?

[@TheAbleFarmer]

My khakis are molting too and have stopped laying. You experiencing this too?

[@rebekkah9420]

people do horrible things to animals, just for profit. Thanks for not being such a human. I love how well you treat your animals!