WEAK PILGRIM GOSLING

Iv had geese biggest part of my life, but this is my 1st year with baby goslings. This year Juliet, my pilgrim goose decided she wanted babies and successfully hatched 7 gorgeous babies. They will be 2wks tomorrow. They've done great up until last night. For some unknown reason Juliet decided not to take the babies back into the barn last night during a very wet rainy night, instead she was very persistent in wanting them to stay outside with her. This morning i got up and had 1 boy dead, and a girl with something wrong with her leg. I pulled her and a companion inside for now. Need opinions. I'd rather not loose another.

chickenfinatic said:

Iv had geese biggest part of my life, but this is my 1st year with baby goslings. This year Juliet, my pilgrim goose decided she wanted babies and successfully hatched 7 gorgeous babies. They will be 2wks tomorrow. They've done great up until last night. For some unknown reason Juliet decided not to take the babies back into the barn last night during a very wet rainy night, instead she was very persistent in wanting them to stay outside with her. This morning i got up and had 1 boy dead, and a girl with something wrong with her leg. I pulled her and a companion inside for now. Need opinions. I'd rather not loose another.

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They probably got chilled water fowl aren't like chickens where they keep their babies under them for warmth, tonight insist mama takes her babies inside herding works well for water fowl.

Keep the one with the leg problem warm and if you have some good poultry vitamins add this to the water. It could have been a problem before this and just not too noticeable till it stayed outside in the wet cool rain. Niacin diff are pretty common in water fowl if fed a chicken feed which most of us can only get it doesn't have the amount of niacin water fowl need. so start with some good poultry vitamins that have the B vitamins in it or get a super b complex and put into a pint of water let it dissolve real good then give it to the gosling you can use a dropper and just drop drops right inside the mouth never down the throat. Poultry Nutri Drench is another good one {TSC} it can be given straight from the dropper into the mouth and goes straight into blood stream instead of through the gut. Also making a gruel out of it's feed with nice warm water may intice it to eat if it hasn't wanted too. Please keep us updated and very sorry for your loss.

She may be to far gone, her head is wobbly and shes very weak, we gave her a small droplet of nutri-drench, & we have her in a box with heat, shavings and food and water with electrolyte in it. Hopefully she will pull thru, but from my neighbors point of view (she has raised geese all her life), if she makes it the night it'll be by pure miracle. what a friend!

We have also made Romeo & Juliet (mom and pop geese) stay in the barn where its dry and draft free, but withlots and lots of grass clippings.the goslings can get out but wont go far without mom.

She passed about 5mins ago. She didnt even have time to digest the nutri-drench

chickenfinatic said:

She passed about 5mins ago. She didnt even have time to digest the nutri-drench

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I'm so sorry.