Recent content by GosfieldAcres

We found out about them not needing a grit, too, and that could have contributed to their vitamin deficiency. The vitamins have done the trick! We also built one of those frame over a cat litter box with hardware cloth to hold their water and that keeps their pen much drier. Thank you...

Okay it has been 48 hours since I started giving the goslings water soluble poultry vitamins and I haven't seen a single symptom! And four of the ones we still have at one point had at least one of the same symptoms as the ones that died. Yay! They seem so much happier and healthier.

It has been so cold here lately, and windy, that I have only brought the goslings out once on a nice day. The only condition I found so far that describes their condition perfectly is this (though they say it has only been reported in chickens)...

I will switch them back to the starter. I read that you could switch them to grower at 2-3 weeks, and they are 2 weeks old. We are using the exact same feed for our turkeys and ducklings, and neither of them are having any issues. (I know it's not the right feed for turkeys, but they screwed...

How is your gosling today? Any difference?

I have read some of the other threads on the same issue, but there are no answers, only ideas. The third gosling is very near death, and a fourth, from the healthy pen, just went berserk, shaking, rocking, flipping over. This is upsetting my daughter very much. Me, too! I just wish I knew...

We got ten Embden goslings two weeks ago. A week ago one of them died after 24 hours of tremors, very bent neck, sudden running around as if in a panic, and not eating. It would fall over and flail trying to get back up. Two days ago another died, same thing. Today, a third is doing very...

Oh, thank you, Miss Lydia, Ill ask over in the goose section. I didn't realize this one was limited to chickens. My children aren't allowed to pick the goslings up anymore because getting picked up made the goslings scared of us. The dying gosling issues don't really line up to being...

I had my goslings inside on woodchips, and then put them out in the shed on straw. Then they started getting sick like you described. All drunk and neck-bent. Today I brought them in the house and put them on clean straw and they all seemed better for awhile, and now a few are worse. Maybe...

A second one died, and a third one is doing poorly. I don't know what's wrong or how to stop it. :( Anyone?

Yesterday we noticed our week old gosling was mostly sitting on it's hocks and thought it had spraddle foot. We hobbled it with yarn (not too tight, looked up how to do it) , but then it would just flop over, and be unable to get up. It also would not huddle with the other nine, and stayed by...

My Muscovy drake has this problem, but he is already about 8 months old. Is it too late to wrap it now? (Not to mention he's HUGE and I can't imagine how I would even do it.)

I would guess that if your neighbours have a pond your ducks will find it eventually! Our ducks free range (until last week when my neighbour called animal control on me because they went on her lawn twice) and they tend to stay in our yard for awhile and I guess then they get bored and...

I read this, of course, AFTER I already have all the turner trays completely full and I am ready to turn on the incubator...

The Storey's Guide to Raising Ducks says that when you fill up the incubator all the way, it really tends to heat up at the end because of the developing embryos putting of heat as they mature.