Goose breeding in rural areas is just to prevent snakes? Are snakes really afraid of geese? After reading the relevant knowledge, you will understand!

Children living in rural areas should be familiar with geese, and some have even been poked by geese. A piece of Qing Wu will come out soon, which is very painful. There is a saying in the countryside-two geese are better than one dog! Generally, when you get to the door where there is a goose, you will walk around, afraid of being poked by that thing!

Of course, for geese, there is a delicious food in Europe-foie gras, which is very delicious; Not only that, goose is also very delicious, rich in amino acids, and even its fat is unsaturated fat, and its nutritional value can be comparable to that of beef and mutton. Salted goose is a special food in Jiangsu.

Gourmet foie gras and goose meat

goose liver

Goose liver is the liver of a goose. Because of its rich nutrition and special efficacy, foie gras has become an ideal health food. Foie gras is also famous for its famous French cuisine, which is also called fatty liver in Chinese.

Goose liver is rich in carbohydrates, protein, fat, cholesterol and minerals such as iron, zinc, copper, potassium, phosphorus and sodium, which is very helpful to human body. Goose fatty liver is fatty liver raised by live geese.

Therefore, eating animal liver in moderation can make the skin rosy. Animal liver is rich in vitamin B2, which is a component of many enzymes and coenzymes in human biochemical metabolism and plays an indirect role in cell proliferation and skin growth. Therefore, eating animal liver often is very beneficial to the skin.

Salted goose

In the early years, people pickled food to keep it fresh with salt, but today, with abundant material conditions and windy pickling in winter, this is the favorite hometown flavor of Liyang people in Jiangsu Province.

Since beginning of winter, the doors of shops along the street in liyang city have been covered with pickled products such as brine chicken and salted goose. In the sun, you can smell the salty fragrance when you walk on the road.

The "flat-headed brother" of poultry industry

Goose meat is really delicious, but many people in the city don't know the power of goose, and they have the title of "flat head brother" in the poultry industry! In fact, the most powerful thing about geese is their alertness. Once in danger, it will fight hard, and its most powerful thing is its mouth, and sometimes even the dog at home can't stand it!

So in the countryside, many people see geese walking around, afraid of being poked, which really hurts! Therefore, geese are also "militant" elements in livestock. Keeping geese at home can prevent thieves. On the one hand, they are more aggressive. On the other hand, they cry loudly. As long as you see strangers or animals in the distance, you will cock your head and scream there, as if demonstrating to danger!

Therefore, geese have become the home guards in rural areas, sometimes even worse than dogs! But in the countryside, there is another saying that there will be fewer snakes where there are many geese, because snakes are afraid of geese! Is it true?/You don't say. /You don't say. Science? Next, let's meet!

Goose is the "water bearer" in the family, and it is much bigger than duck, but some people will make a joke and think goose is a duck! However, the feeding habits of geese and ducks are similar. They all eat some grass and vegetables, and occasionally catch some fish and shrimp in the water!

Although the goose has a strong fighting capacity, it is not a natural enemy of snakes, because there is not even the most basic fish and shrimp in its diet. But why are snakes afraid of geese?

Goose's innate "fighting power"

Goose, as a common poultry, has special life habits, such as liking water, being alert, being cold-resistant, and living regularly. Goose has strong disease resistance and less pollution. As a kind of green food, it is more and more loved by people.

It is said that geese are domesticated by wild geese, but there are two kinds of geese we see, one is China White Goose domesticated by Hongyan and the other is European Goose domesticated by Grey Goose! But there is no reproductive isolation between these two kinds of geese, so these two kinds of geese can breed many varieties by mating!

There are many examples of fighting power and attack power of geese from ancient times to the present. Su Dongpo of China has such a poem: "Goose can prevent thieves and kill snakes. Its dung kills snakes, Shu people raise snakes in the garden pool, and snakes go away. "

Even now, it is said that a whisky distillery in England keeps 100 geese as "inspectors" in the factory, so this factory has not been stolen for decades! In order to bypass the breeding season of geese, the University of Waterloo in Canada has developed an "anti-goose" APP!

Why can geese prevent snakes?

Snakes are a kind of animals under chordates and reptiles, and their habitats vary from species to species. Some live in caves, some live on the ground, some live in trees and some live in water. In nature, snakes have quite a few natural enemies. In addition to human hunting, there are king cobra, mongoose (Yu U), snake carving, snake armadillo (qiú yú), snake carving, eagle, honey badger, wild boar and so on. They are all natural enemies of snakes. Of course, the raptors that can eat snakes are still very good.

Goose is not a natural enemy of snakes, nor is it because of the danger of geese that snakes are afraid, but it can secrete a substance harmful to snakes, and once it is infected by snakes, it will get sick. It's not realgar, it's cryptosporidium!

Cryptosporidium widely exists in many vertebrates, mainly Cryptosporidium parvum which causes cryptosporidiosis. It is a protozoan disease of human and animals with diarrhea as the main clinical manifestation, and it is listed as one of the six most common diarrhea diseases in the world. In 1986, WHO designated human cryptosporidiosis as one of the suspected indicators of AIDS, and cryptosporidiosis is an important opportunistic protozoa.

Cryptosporidium infection is often accompanied by spasmodic abdominal pain, abdominal distension, nausea, vomiting, anorexia or anorexia, thirst, fever, and a few patients delay 1~2 months or turn into chronic recurrent attacks. Cryptosporidium infection is a serious public health problem, which will also cause huge economic losses to animal husbandry.

In view of this, snakes walk around where there are geese, which is similar to people's habits. Because snakes have a strong respiratory function, especially snake skin, once infected, it will cause irreversible lesions to snakes!

Now you understand why snakes are afraid of geese!