Recent content by Holly31

Hooray, Boris the gander had rounded the bend! He is looking and feeling better. Gave his eyes a slosh with boric acid solution (1/4 tsp in half cup RO water), plus gavage of nutrition food and also a meat purée baby food mixed with water. Also 20 mgs of Ibuprofen. He took a long splashy bath...

The vet called after conferring with another specialist. She wants to add Clavamox 500 mg twice a day. She did mention mycoplasma. I wonder why she didn’t offer Baytril; that kills everything. I hate to throw antibiotics Willy nilly; I’ll pick up the Rx and hold it a day or two before adding it...

Foamy bubbles and mucosy stuff.

The greenish color may have been my imagination. Here are pics from this morning. Vet called with labs: normal wbc and rbc, reduced kidney function likely from dehydration. Low glycemic. Probably from not eating. Going to add clavamox and continue gavage. He is a bit more robust today, hanging...

Thank you! I couldn’t find info about Benadryl! I will try it.

Thanks for the help! It was a long release injection of doxycycline. He’s a Sevastopol. I will see if I can get a pic of the inside of his mouth. I didn’t get a great look but I expect to see pale pink, and it wasn’t that. All the discharge from his nostril and eye is clear and watery. The...

I mistook my gander for his sister, so update: not a female. Regardless, we saw the vet this morning. An aspirate produced only clear stringy substance. Vet seems baffled. She gave him an extended release antibiotics, took blood (no results yet), and a prescription food for garbage as he’s...

My 8 year old goose is acting odd. She's normally agressive and flighty. The last day or two she is passive, isolating herself, making soft sad sounds when I talk to her, and her head and throat are puffy. Normally she's agressive and runs from me. Today I huddled her and looked in her mouth. No...

I have seven. 3 boys, 4 girls. I started with one goose but she seemed lonely. She was very friendly. I bought 3 chicks from McMurray because she'd been setting for weeks on duds. GREAT mother goose. Now I have a bunch, and they trust me, but will honk the heck out of anyone else. They chase the...

Thank you for the link. I have 2 hens with this condition, both from the same source, and none of my others have it. One stopped standing the other day and this should do the trick. I don’t mind scalpel and sutures, but I haven’t access to adequate anesthesia. Thank you again!

He was a rescue from a fight farm, so came to us without comb and wattles. He has to live alone because he abuses hens. Will try again with stronger glue. He was excited to eat this afternoon with his new beak.

Why is it always so hard for me to post pics?!?

That’s how I’ve had him eating, fresh corn in a coffee mug, but he was giving up.

Hi All, We had a rooster mishap and two bantams beat the heck out of a normal roo. We saved his sorry butt and tube fed him and cared for him until one of his eyes “returned”. He didn’t do too badly for about 10 months but a bantam got loose and teased him, resulting in his fighting the bantam...

Hi All, We had a rooster mishap and two bantams beat the heck out of a normal roo. We saved his sorry butt and tube fed him and cared for him until one of his eyes “returned”. He didn’t do too badly for about 10 months but a bantam got loose and teased him, resulting in his fighting the bantam...