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Black Sea Journal of Agriculture, vol.6, no.6, pp.683-693, 2023 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
This study was carried out in order to reveal the current situation of goose breeding in extensive and semi-intensive conditions in Afyonkarahisar and Uşak provinces and to determine the important problems encountered in breeding. The material of the study; consists of a total of 200 survey data, 125 from the villages of the Merkez, Bolvadin, Sinanpaşa, Sultandağı, Çobanlar, and İhsaniye districts of Afyonkarahisar province, 75 from the Central, Banaz, Sivaslı, and Karahallı districts of the Uşak province. According to the research findings, it has been determined that more than half of the producers in Afyonkarahisar and Uşak have an average of 1-10 years of goose breeding. It has been determined that the number of breeding male geese per farm is 1-5, and the average number of breeding female geese is 3-20 (M/F: 1/3-5/20). It has been determined that 64% of the goose shelters in Afyonkarahisar and 50.6% in Uşak are made of briquettes or bricks. In conclusion, it can be said that the main problems of the producers are feed costs, inadequacies in care and feeding, breeding with low-yielding domestic breeds, difficulties in the supply of breeding animals, and problems in marketing. Expanding the scope of the goose incentive will provide an opportunity to prevent losses in our goose stock and to increase our goose presence again in the future.