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Hello everyone - 1) Light Sussex hen, two years old. Very skinny - weighed at 2kgs five days ago and has lost a further 100g since 2) Chronic weight loss, I noticed she was a bit light a few months ago but she was stable and very bright/eating. She became slightly subdued around 2 weeks ago and...

Unfortunately we lost our female goose recently and our gander is own his own (aside from our chickens). He is very unsettled at night and whilst he used to honk from time to time it is currently really consistent and we are worried about how stressed he may be without his mate. We are currently...

Do you know if trichomonas affects geese? She didn't have any lesions in her mouth or oesophagus, just the thick yellow material at the bottom of her proventriculus and most of her gizzard as I mentioned. It was really solid though. I saw Trichomonas anseris is different from the trich normally...

Unfortunately she died today, she was drinking loads and then laid down and passed away so I don't know if she inhaled water. She still had good amounts of fat in her abdomen so I don't think it was because of her reduced appetite? Her gizzard seemed impacted with sand and what looked like melon...

Unfortunately the vet didn't call today after all but hopefully will hear tomorrow. Are there any v high energy feeds you would recommend? I may have to crop tube her as she is still eating barely anything. Poor wee soul

Thank you very much for the info, I do have tylosin which I was considering starting but thankfully now I will be getting a call from the vet tomorrow to go through options before administering anything else. She is such a lovely goose so it is a worrying time.

Hello everyone, I have two adult Sebastopol geese (one male one female) and my female is currently not eating much. She previously had a really good appetite so it is noticeable. Both free range and on Fancy Feeds Fenland Waterfowl pellets with some mixed corn in the afternoons. She is drinking...

I have Sebastopol eggs in the incubator, they are at day 16 and have lost around half of the weight they should have by now. The issue is I have not added any water to the incubator and am doing a dry hatch, humidity is about 32% average. The air cells look small to me as well. Is there any way...

Hello, I am trying to work out a single oral dose of Tylan soluble powder for one of my orpington chickens who has mycoplasma. She is not drinking well and she has previously not been great with i/m injections of Tylan so avoiding that. I can see dosage for drinking water but I am looking to...

Hi all, I was looking into getting omlet fencing to keep chooks within an acre area, just wondering if it would stand up to geese nibbling on it as well? Any insight or reviews much appreciated. Alternatively any fencing recommendations would be much appreciated

Hi everyone, I was wondering if folk had any tried and tested boredom busters for geese? We are first time goose owners and have two 6 month old sebastopols that have access to an acre of grass and a 10 x 15m pond but they seem to enjoy spending most of their time up near the house, they don't...

Hi everyone, I have 10 3 week old leghorn and light sussex chicks that are currently in a brooder in my house. They have access to a Brinsea ecoglow. We currently have a leak in our roof so will have to move the chicks to an outbuilding whilst we arrange some home repairs. The outbuilding is...

Hi, I have a pair of sebastopols and mixed orpington flock. All are free ranging together and all seems peaceful. However the geese are keen to eat both their waterfowl pellets (we are feeding the same amount as when the chickens were penned separately and the amount we gave seemed to satisfy...

Hi everyone, I have been looking for a breeder of tufted roman geese in the UK for a while but I have not had any joy. Anyone on here breed these lovely birds? I am based in the Scottish countryside but willing to travel across the UK. Would also accept hatching eggs too. I know they are much...

Yikes, have managed to get the chickens into my kitchen and will have to find an alternative soon, all unharmed thankfully. Have people found that they get on when free ranging? We have a few acres so they should be able to distance themselves

Hi, I have two 13 week old sebastopol geese (one male one female) who are housed in a 5x6ft shed at night. During the day they are free ranging. Now due to unforeseen circumstances our chicken coop has suffered severe damage and we have had to house our 14 week old chickens (orpington x4 and...

So good news, they eventually got brave enough to come out onto the grass with us and they have made a real turnaround, I have sat within 4ft of them and they have been preening/lying down so I am surprised at how quick that was! We had given them access to grass since they got here but they...

Thank you, we have a basin in with them that has water and some sinking pellets in. Also scattered some cut grass near them and on the surface of the water. Think I heard one of them taking a dabble so fingers crossed. I think they were handled like livestock really, the guy was quite rough when...

Hi everyone, I picked up my first geese yesterday - two 12 week old sebastopols (male and female). They are lovely, but it seems that they haven't been handled much at all - they are truly terrified of everything! Since putting them into their shed (on their own, very quiet rural area, peaceful...

Thank you for your help! Got them back in one piece, although it looks like they really haven't been handled much at all - they seemed terrified when the breeder picked them up, and when we took them out of their carrier they were really distressed. They have not moved from one corner of their...