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We changed her feed and gave her a vitamin and she's looking almost good as new!! Thank you again.Try giving B vitamin complex as well as a general multivitamin. Sometimes vitamin deficiency is the issue.
What feed is she on and what breed is she also?
She could have an old leg, hip, or joint injury. Cold weather could be aggravating it.
Meloxicam can be crushed and mixed with water in a syringe, 12 ml syringes are the easiest to use with geese, any smaller and it’s harder to manouver them to the back of the throat far enough.
You can also place the pill in the mouth yourself, wrap it in a small peace of lettuce and stuff it down her throat, or hide it in a berry or grape.
Truthfully stuffing it down her throat or using a syringe is the only way to ensure she actually takes it, sometimes when geese figure out that you’re hiding meds in food they’ll dissect the treat to get the pill out.
Whichever method you choose this is how you administer meds to a bird:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...dications-to-all-poultry-and-waterfowl.73335/
You can corner your goose or squat over them, not sitting on them but using your body to hold them into place.
After that use one hand to apply pressure to the corners of the mouth until she opens, then wrap your fingers around the top of the bill, she can’t chew you up if you do that, then use your other hand to insert the syringe, pill, whatever as far back in her mouth to HER right as possible, then close her mouth and hold her beak upwards for a second or two.
Finally give her her favorite treat.
The faster you do it the easier it actually is and less traumatic for her.
If she needs meloxicam or anything else on a long term basis the treat will train her to get used to the whole thing and that it isn’t a big deal. She’ll never like doing it, but after a bit it becomes just some mildly annoying thing that she gets rewarded for. Do it enough times and you can just walk up to her, open her mouth, and pop the medicine in without much of a struggle.
