Apologies for being so late to this; I've been away and it was difficult to do anything more than like posts.
On this question, I think the difficulty for me is foresight; I'm not sure until after the death that the animal was so close to it. We beat ourselves up in hindsight, but we didn't...
Madeira looks fabulous. The wine's a treat too :p
Not sure about geese on a trail though...I assume they're well fenced if their 'coop' is indicative :D
In general, a commercial broiler feed is designed to get the chick from hatch to supermarket shelf size in about 6 weeks. So it contains ingredients that promote rapid growth, with complete indifference to any side effects of those ingredients that might emerge later because there won't be time...