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    Goose bulge on face

    Thanks for the replies (: We'll try the epsom salt compresses sometime this weekend. It doesn't seem like it's bothering him, at least not that we can tell, and given that it's already been quite a while since it started and he seems otherwise healthy I'm thinking it's probably nothing...
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    Goose bulge on face

    We used a needle to poke around and see what came out but nothing did at all - it was like putting a needle inside of a pillow case. The bulge itself feels soft to the touch as well, doesn't feel like there's any fluid or tumor or anything under it. Not sure what to make of it, was hoping for...
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    Goose bulge on face

    Hey thanks for the reply. Yea we checked inside the mouth but nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Haven't really thought about sticking a needle in no, figured best not to start poking it without knowing what it is or even could be (google isn't being much of a help with this, typing...
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    Goose bulge on face

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    Goose bulge on face

    Hiya, Our gander has had this bulge on his face for months now, he seems otherwise healthy but it doesn't seem to be going away, and as there's no goose-vet around here I was hoping to get some insight here in what might be the cause/possible solutions. It did seem to get smaller at one point...
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    How do you slaughter your ducks?

    I have to cull my first ducks this week and have 0 experience with slaughtering any kind of animal. I've been reading up and watching videos with regards to how to best slaughter ducks, and most seem to recommend coning. I'm however pretty worried that I somehow mess up and he doesn't die as I...
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    Drakes mating with geese

    Unfortunately when I walked to the back around lunch time today to check on the gosling I found the coop door open and the baby gosling lying dead in front of it with the mother goose next to it, and one of the younger geese now sitting on the nest (there were still 2 eggs there). Pretty sure...
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    Drakes mating with geese

    Just seperated two of the geese (the mommy and the gander) from the rest of the flock together with the gosling. The two younger geese immediately tried attacking the gosling so for now they'll have to put up with the ducks. Some pictures of the main characters, starting with the parents: The...
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    Drakes mating with geese

    Interesting to read that many of you experidnce similar tensions between geese and ducks, I was under the impression they usually get along well and am very suprises that it's the ducks causing the issues. We have muscovy's fwiw. And yea one of the drakes attempted to mate with a chicken before...
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    Drakes mating with geese

    Thanks Lydia that's very helpful. Sounds like we should probably cull 2 of the drakes, or at least the one that is causing the most trouble. We do have one gander and while he tries helping the younger geese he's not really aggressive enough to phase the ducks. Mama goose is currently sleeping...
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    Drakes mating with geese

    We got 3 ducks a few months ago and all of them turned out to be drakes. We put them on our farm along with our geese and chickens, but recently they've been trying to mate with the geese (and kind of succeeding at it). The drakes chase our youngest geese around and will mount them once they...
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    Sudden gosling deaths

    Droppings didn't seem really off compared to what we've seen before, they always has starter feed available but didn't really seem to touch it. We already disposed of the bodies unfortunately, just trying to figure out if I'm missing anything so it doesn't happen to the next batch.
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    Sudden gosling deaths

    Sure I've attached a picture below. I raised 2 goslings before under pretty much the same conditions, same light etc. Also they did not have a heatlamp until the first died, then the second one had access to the heatlamp 24/7 afterwards, so I don't think that's the cause. We kept a close eye on...
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    Sudden gosling deaths

    Anyone?
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    Sudden gosling deaths

    Hi all, We recently incubated 2 eggs and got 2 seemingly healthy goslings from it. They were perfectly healthy for 10 days, when one of the two suddenly got very weak, couldn't get up and died several hours later. Initially we thought he might have been cold as it was a chilly day and the...
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