About Schiltz Foods
In 1944, marin schiltz got the five goose eggs of Toulouse that his wife, Catherine, and his sister had found. He hatched two goslings that grew to 12 pounds and sold for 12 cents a pound. This led the schilts to start a goose Schiltz Foods. Over the next few years, hatching is done under the care of heavy chickens. Marlin rents brooke hens for 25 cents each for 30 days to hatch the eggs. The first incubator was bought in 1949. She began to hatch other eggs and returned them when the chicks hatched. Most of the production of geese goes to the "lawnmower" industry, Schiltz Foods. Before modern herbicides, geese were used to control grass because they did not eat certain crops. In the late 1940s, geese went to cotton fields in Texas and California, strawberry fields in Michigan, asparagus and mint fields in Washington. These farmers found that geese were an economical and efficient field of labor to weed because geese literally worked for food.