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I'm sorry that I don't have more details (our goose-sitter is not a native English speaker) but apparently our four-year-old goose Sopheap has been sluggish for the last few days and sitting a lot more than usual, but still getting up and walking around. Today she is not getting up at all. She...

We are moving countries and because we live in an avian flu area, we cannot bring our flock (1 goose, 1 gander, 1 drake, and 1 duck) with us. We've found a new home for them with a friend who also has a goose and a gander. All of the geese and ducks are about 4 years old. Our gander is very...

We have three muscovys, three pekin-types, and two geese. Previously the pekin ducks and the geese were tight and the muscovys were a little group of their own. One of our muscovys just had 10 ducklings and after six or so weeks we gave them away. We noticed soon after that the mama muscovy...

We got a new Muscovy duckling that hatched last night and it can't open its eyes. I tried using a wet q-tip and can open his eyes with that, but then the snap back shut and he doesn't seem to be able to open them himself. Any suggestions?

We have three duck eggs being sat on alternately by a duck and goose (see my previous post). One has pipped and is working its way out of the egg but the membrane is very thick and tough so I made a tiny hole in the membrane to help it (it had already gotten out of the shell). The other two have...

My female goose is two years old. In a previous thread I mentioned that my gander adores her but won't mate with her. This hasn't stopped her from going broody, though. She was sitting on a bunch of duck eggs in the duck house (it's a small house where the ducks lay eggs but don't live) so I...

My gander has sores on both of his feet, and one of them was bleeding slightly today. Is this bumblefoot? If so, what can I do to treat it? I'm worried about my little guy.

We have five musovy ducks that were born the same day and are now 7 weeks old. Two are much bigger than the other three, so I assume they are male. One of the small ones has thick legs and bigger knees, making me worry she is male, too. She's my favorite, though, but if she's male she's off the...

We've got some 6-7 week old muscovies. Last week, one of them started "crying" almost continuously, sometimes for hours at a time. Around the same time this started, she had a limp for a few days. I picked her up and examined her and couldn't find any cuts or abrasions and she didn't seem to...

We had a duckling hatch two days ago and it is very small and its wings are hanging down in a droopy sort of way. Its gait is also a bit strange. It's been a while since I've had a duckling that is this young, so I am not sure if this is normal. Hopefully I am just being a nervous grandma...

I've got six muscovy ducklings that are about 18 days old. In the last few days, one of them has started sounding off all the time. Like, cheep cheep cheep for an hour straight, several times a day. I am not used to muscovies, so I am not sure if this is normal, but I assume not. I have...

I have a duck who was sitting on 9 eggs. I'm not certain how long she has been sitting, nor how old the eggs are. Some are definitely older than other. One seems to have exploded, one was not fertilized so I removed it, two have veins so seem like they are progressing, and there are four that I...

I have a pair of geese who are over just over a year old. They are tame and very friendly. We've just gotten six muscovy ducklings, and the ducklings just want to follow the geese all over the garden, which is adorable. The geese seem scared, though, and run away from the ducklings. They don't...

Every time I speak to my female goose, she talks back. Do all geese respond when spoken to or is mine special?

This is from one of my new baby ducks, they are a little under 6 weeks old (I think) and they were all sold to me as female. Now three of the four of them have this curl, and the fourth looks like it might get one, too! 6 weeks seems way too young to be getting a drake curl, they aren't even...

I realize that I should have found out if they were Pekin-type or Muscovy before I got them. 60 cents each, though, hard to pass up! Any idea what they will look like? One has orange feet and the others are a more muted orange that has a sort of greyish cast to them. Edit: my neighbor...

A friend of mine has two Chinese geese that are about a year old. We went over to see them because his geese are from the same family as our geese, so we think they are cousins. I think his are both boys. One of them doesn't look well. He has a dirty vent, mussed up feathers and is very thin...

Our goose and gander are about 9 months old. Our goose has not started laying eggs yet, but is definitely going through puberty. Whenever my boyfriend gets near her she crouches down as if she wants him to mate with her. Today, we caught her trying to sit on the ducks' eggs. However, our gander...

When our duck went for a bath tonight I went and had a look at her nest. She's been on the nest for 41 days now. I used a flashlight and saw that one egg is still moving inside. Another egg has pipped externally and is cheeping. However, I was horrified to see that small red ants were crawling...

We're having a bad day for ducks over here! Our new duck is around 8 weeks old, and we just realized that she is probably a he. We vent sexed her when she was small, but had no idea what we were doing and clearly missed something important, as she's now quite wide-legged, feathers sticking out...