I would also suggest going to the feed store and asking them what kind of feed they had the goslings on and if it’s the chick start explain to them that they need to have waterfowl babies on purina flock raiser, purina duck feed, or mazuri waterfowl starter.
You need to get them off the chick feed and get them on a flock raiser ASAP. This sounds like a nutritional deficiency.
Medicated start isn’t harmful to goslings or ducklings but medicated start is typically formulated for chicks so it doesn’t have enough B vitamins in it for waterfowl...
Congratulations! One thing to remember with geese is that they’re highly social and consider whoever spends the most time with them as a member of their flock so the more time spent with them the better chance you’ll have of them being friendly with you. This is also a life long thing.
I don’t care for the quality control of dumor but a lot of people haven’t had issues. Other options can be purina flock raiser, purina duck feed, or mazuri waterfowl starter.
Even if they’re both males they’re still a pair, ganders can bond with each other just fine, they may squabble sometimes but they’ll always be brothers to each other.
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That’s fairly normal. Now if you see discharge from the nares or mouth and slinging when they’re not fiddling with their water it could be a sign of an upper respiratory infection.
Also what feed and bedding are they on?
It’s still possible that all three are ganders, they will fight in breeding season regardless if there’s a female or not. Ganders can form strong bonds with other ganders but that doesn’t mean that they won’t still squabble in breeding season. Things become dangerous if you have a bonded pair of...
This is new for me! If no one else chimes in you might be the first to have an egg like this. All I can guess at is you might end up having to assist the hatch, which is tricky to determine because in normal cases geese take a few days to hatch once they’ve begun the process. Definitely make...