[quote=bayoubengal]Goose poop is (unfortunately) an excellent fertilizer.
As fertilizer producers, 30 geese equal one cow.
One goose in a 24 hr period can poop enough fertilizer to grow 115 pounds of FA. (wet weight). That's the biggest reason why I try to keep them off of my pond. Not to mention them bringing invasive plant seeds to my pond.
Just to break the ice ... a little humor.
So let me get this straight ...
1 goose day = 115 lbs of FA
and
30 geese equal 1 cow for fertilizer therefore:
1 cow day * 30 *115 = 3450 lbs of FA
Or 1.725 tons of wet FA per day (629 tons of wet FA per year)
Dry weight of that FA? 62.9 tons/year of FA hay from the annual poop of 1 cow?
Problem isn't 30 geese = 1 cow. That's a good rule of thumb.
1 goose day = 110 lbs is WAY OFF (7600% too much). Not even close. It's no more than 1.5 lbs wet and .15 lbs dry from 1 goose day.
Another factoid? 1 lb of feed has a minimum of 3.65 goose days of the FA stimulating nutrient phosphorus. That's a bare minimum. But if only 1/2 of the goose poop winds up in the pond (they spend a lot of time grazing away from ponds), that comparison would be 1 lb of feed equals 7.3 days of goose poop because all the feed goes in the pond.
I'll start a new thread on the topic of nutrients when I get a chance.
