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It's interesting how similar goose poop is to wild turkey poop.

I'd say Silly Goose is out of the woods. That poop is a very splendid poop.

I use a gallon glass jar to sprout. But you can use anything. Have you sprouted before? If so, you know that you need to rinse and drain all the water off the grain as it's sprouting or it can go skanky. I rubberband a scrap of window screen over the mouth so all I have to do is pour water in...

Oh yes! Sprouting the wheat is one more way to pamper the silly goose. (See what I just did there?) Grain will sprout unless it's been roasted. I would still wash the wheat. I don't trust those grain elevators to be rodent proof. It won't hurt it any to wash it and then you'll have the peace of...

Oh, yes! But I would wash and rinse and drain the wheat before you give it to him in a bucket of fresh clean water, in case there are any rodent droppings in it. But continue to offer the Flock Raiser, too. It has vitamins and minerals he needs, too. Give him a little of everything and let him...

It never hurts to have an antibiotic on hand. I always keep an assortment in case one doesn't work, then I can try another. It's terribly frustrating when you have a sick bird and have to wait for an antibiotic to be shipped, worrying your patient could die before it gets there. But he may not...

The cubes won't be fully fermented for a day and a half at minimum, but he can eat it any time. Just keep any that you don't feed to him in the fermenting juice. Did he want to eat any of the yogurt? If his appetite doesn't improve by tomorrow, I think we might consider an oral antibiotic in...

When photographing anything that can vary in size, it helps us who are viewing the photo to place something next to it for scale, such as a coin or a pen or a ruler. How large would you say that poop is? Has he been eating anything green? Did he eat some parsley? If he hasn't eaten anything...

You've been soaking the cubes so you know how much they expand. So use whatever container, glass is best, you've been using and cover the cubes with the same amount of water you've been using to soften the cubes. The only difference will be you'll add about two teaspoons of yogurt. You can mix...

See if your goose will eat some of it. It's good for his plumbing. If you have a septic system, flush it down the toilet. The enzymes are also good for your house plumbing.

Greek style yogurt to be sure you're getting active enzymes. No sugar no flavor, use plain. Give the goose some. He may like it. It will do his digestive tract good to plant the enzymes in it.

Use a little Greek yogurt. You need active enzymes. Fake buttermilk won't cut it. There isn't enough lacotse left in yogurt to hurt even the most lactose intolerant poultry. People feed yogurt to their flocks all the time. It always comes down to amounts. Small amounts of dairy is fine. No...

Good old, bad old Amazon has it. https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Whole+wheat+berries Also, if your feed store can't order you a big feed bag of it, you can probably find it in the cereal aisle under the Red Mill label.

It appears you can use a tablespoon of yogurt with active enzymes or buttermilk or a little keifer to get the ferment going. I'd do maybe two or three cubes at a time for him, and use the "juice" from it to start more when needed. Or you can just add a cube as he eats them and the supply...

Why not try fermenting your alfalfa cubes? Here's a thread on how to do it. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/fermented-alfalfa-cubes-how-to.1157838/

You got my curiosity up about what geese eat. Here's what I found and it may have some feeding tips you haven't heard about. https://poultrykeeper.com/keeping-geese-faq/feeding-geese/ I'm wondering what you've been feeding him besides the Flock Raiser. Perhaps he needs more grassy foods in his...

I wrongly assumed geese would eat fish. Yours might eat a few morsels, but I would stick to veggies and skip the chicken soup. Why don't you pick him up some parsley? I bet that would be a hit. Tofu you might try. It's fermented bean curd. Easy to digest. Yes, get the adult chicken granite...

The white-ish poops are mostly urates. You're right. He's not eaten any real food, only drunk water. Give him some soft boiled egg, warm and freshly cooked. He should find that appealing. I always start a recovering patient out with the cooked egg or crumbled tofu. Try a little Nutri-drench on...

No guarantees. But his behavior seems fine, so outlook is good. Keep an eye on his poop as you've been doing. Now that we know he's cleaned out, if he has watery white poop, instead of solid, we may need to put our heads together and figure out why.

Looks good! I would expect him to be a happy goose now that he's all cleaned out. (Sort of like prepping for a colonoscopy does for humans, which I get to do in two days. Yay.)