Hello all,
I just joined here and i feel like this is a good place to start since i could find much online about geese.
I have 3 Chinese geese that i got at one day Old and now I’m extremely attached to them. They are about 5 months old. 1 female and 2 males. One of my males is white and is having some issues. He is my favorite and losing him would be awful.
2 weeks ago i came home from work and noticed he was carrying his one wing over his head when he walked and just laying around. He’s usually the ringleader so i got worried he was attacked while i was away. I looked him over and he had no physical injuries. I took him to the nearest vet and they said he just had a sprained wing and gave me some anti inflammatories. After a couple days of the medicine he was much better and getting around fine.
Exactly 2 weeks later [yesterday] i came home from work again and he was sprawled out on the ground with his wings out. I thought he was dead...he seemed fine in the morning. When i got close he popped up but could barely walk. He kept falling on his face and seemed drunk. I did some reading online and all i could come up with was maybe he has a heavy worm load or has a niacin deficiency. The other 2 brown Chinese geese that he grew up with are fine. I have him a stench of vitamins and some brewers yeast last night. Luckily he was alive this morning. He’s getting around but very slow. Whatever it was yesterday hit him like a ton of bricks. Any ideas what’s going on with him? What should i use to deworm? I have no idea what to use. I have ivermectin that i use for my goats. I’ll continue niacin...could it be anything else?
Please help i don’t want him to pass
I just joined here and i feel like this is a good place to start since i could find much online about geese.
I have 3 Chinese geese that i got at one day Old and now I’m extremely attached to them. They are about 5 months old. 1 female and 2 males. One of my males is white and is having some issues. He is my favorite and losing him would be awful.
2 weeks ago i came home from work and noticed he was carrying his one wing over his head when he walked and just laying around. He’s usually the ringleader so i got worried he was attacked while i was away. I looked him over and he had no physical injuries. I took him to the nearest vet and they said he just had a sprained wing and gave me some anti inflammatories. After a couple days of the medicine he was much better and getting around fine.
Exactly 2 weeks later [yesterday] i came home from work again and he was sprawled out on the ground with his wings out. I thought he was dead...he seemed fine in the morning. When i got close he popped up but could barely walk. He kept falling on his face and seemed drunk. I did some reading online and all i could come up with was maybe he has a heavy worm load or has a niacin deficiency. The other 2 brown Chinese geese that he grew up with are fine. I have him a stench of vitamins and some brewers yeast last night. Luckily he was alive this morning. He’s getting around but very slow. Whatever it was yesterday hit him like a ton of bricks. Any ideas what’s going on with him? What should i use to deworm? I have no idea what to use. I have ivermectin that i use for my goats. I’ll continue niacin...could it be anything else?
Please help i don’t want him to pass