What originally turned out to be an odd quirk has turned into a major issue. I bought 5 Chineese geese from a local market last summer (yep, not doing that again...) There were 2 males, 3 females. Four of them were 2 weeks old and one was 1 week old. ALL of the four that were 2 weeks old have this quirk of not being able to completely tuck in all of their wing feathers, so about 10 or so feathers stick out sideways. The younger goose developed his feathers just fine. Other then them looking a little weird it's never been a problem..... until now.
They're all going through a moult right now and with those feathers sticking out at such a weird angle they constantly keep injuring the blood quills and quickly turn themselves into bloody messes. I was worried about how much bleeding they were doing so I started pulling out some of the quills, hoping they weould re-grow better the next time around. But they're not... everytime they grow back they keep breaking the quills off and bleed. Any idea what would cause them to hold their feather like this in the first place and is there anything I can do to fix it?? Since they were all from the same batch and the younger one is fine I'm thinking that there was something involved in their breeding. It's quite disheartening....
They're all going through a moult right now and with those feathers sticking out at such a weird angle they constantly keep injuring the blood quills and quickly turn themselves into bloody messes. I was worried about how much bleeding they were doing so I started pulling out some of the quills, hoping they weould re-grow better the next time around. But they're not... everytime they grow back they keep breaking the quills off and bleed. Any idea what would cause them to hold their feather like this in the first place and is there anything I can do to fix it?? Since they were all from the same batch and the younger one is fine I'm thinking that there was something involved in their breeding. It's quite disheartening....
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