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My goslings started hatching today and already one has been pushed out of the nest and allowed to die... Before its fuzz had even dried! Question: is it better to leave them with the geese or take them out to put in a brooder?

Fill an eye dropper with sugar water (make it nice and sweet!) and feed it to the chick by dropping it on top of it's beak if you have to. Even if it refuses to drink, just drip it on the beak. Eventually, it will get some in it's mouth and after that will start to drink from the dropper. Give a...

I have about 20 mature chicken (2 roosters, 18 hens), and 10 geese. I keep them all in a large yard and let them out during the day. The geese are out at night with a pond and the chickens roost in a coop. This is my second year with them all. Around January of this year, I noticed some...

I just read over these posts and tried the sugar water with an old eye dropper I rinsed out. It was amazing! Within 10 or 15 seconds, the lethargic chick went from refusing to drink, to getting the sugar on it's beak, to drinking from the dropper! Then, it jumped out of my hand, ran back into...