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Geese can be very friendly creatures yet some geese are ferocious. If yours are of the latter variety, your main problem is to keep clear of them. If not, your problem comes at Christmas when they may be destined for the table. If you have had geese happily chortling around the house for several months, the silence when they disappear is horrible. However, if that is what they were bought for in the first place — to fatten and sell — you must steel yourself and make someone's Christmas special by providing an excellent goose. Be warned, geese are the worst birds to pluck. It really takes three pluckings: the first for the feathers, the next for the down and the last to remove the little quills, forerunners of further feathers. A badly plucked goose is reminiscent of a hedge- hog and will probably put off a first-time goose-eater for the rest of his life. Geese can be kept for profit in several ways:
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