HELP! My 2 month old Touloose goose has droppy wings!

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Karisma118

Karisma118

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I have a pair of 2 month old Touloose geese and one(the female) has droopy wings. Just noticed this this evening. Wasnt that way this morning...She also has blood on the blue feather parts( not sure what they are called). Is it normal for there to be blood when feathers come in? my ducks who are the same age get blood on the growing feathers every now and then as well..they dont seem like it hurts them though. The goose keeps pulling her wings back up but they just fall back down...what could be wrong and what should i do? Im really worried about her...any advice is very welcome! Thanks so much
 
Is this a normal thing? does it heal on its own? I feed chick starter grower..i think its 18%..is that too much?
 
Way too high, move them to a maintenance feed or all flock. Mazuri has a 14% maintenance feed.

Yes it is normal, they grow very LONG flight feathers, they grow in full of blood making them very heavy. They need be out in the sunshine and allowed to graze and exercise their wings to help strengthen the muscles. Once the feathers have fully grown in the blood will vanish.

Reducing the protein in feed will help lesson the chances of angel wing. (where the wing flips out 90* from the body and requires wrapping) which your goose does NOT currently have by the description you gave.
 
All my goslings have had droopy wings for a short while (a week or two, I think) when their wings started feathering. They all turned out fine - no angel wings.
 
Thats good. Sometimes they will keep the droopy wings for a while. If they still have them after the feathers come all the way in you can clip their wings to take more of the load off. I had two ducks with droopy wings and I clipped one and not the other.The one I didnt clip always had the droop wings. Just something else you can do if the other doesnt work
 
I saw this happen to a toulouse that was kept inside as a house goose. She wasn't allowed to graze or get the slightest bit dirty. Her feathers becamse brittle, her bill turned grey and her wings drooped. A week after rescueing her and putting her on wheat grass, she had her color back and wings started to lose the drag. With feathers - sometimes you haev to wait until the next moult if they have been too deficient.
The good thing is- all of this can be corrected if you catch it in time.
 
imanerd said:
Is this the same droopy wing problem?

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Oh my, those wings look severe. I've never seen that in any of my geese. They just had a little trouble keeping their wingtips crossed over their backs/tails, but the wings never hung down under their bodies like in this picture. How old is the gosling? Is it me, or does it look kind of skinny?
 
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