2 y/o Sebastopol limping

[Cwilkins711]

Hi all,

I have a 2 year old Sebastopol goose that has been limping for a few days. I was hoping it would resolve on its own but I’m afraid it’s not, it’s possibly getting worse.
I checked the bottoms of her feet for sores or abrasions and I haven’t seen any. She has another goose friend that’s the same age that has no issues. She’s eating well, I feed Kalmbach duck and goose. She also grazing in the yard but I’ve noticed she isn’t venturing as far as usual and seems a little more dull. She also is laying as well.
She has angel wing that she unfortunately had when I purchased her as a gosling and even though I tried to wrap her wings it didn’t correct. (I think she was too old at that point)

I can’t appreciate any swelling anywhere on her legs either.

- is there anything I can do to make her feel better?

I did have a Marricks disease scare this winter with two young (chicken) hens. They are presumed positive after state testing was done. I just don’t know how common the disease is in adult geese.

I do want to add I’m trying to find a veterinarian in my area that will see geese but that’s posed to be more difficult than I thought.

Thanks all for your insight!

 

[Goosebaby]

Can you post a picture of the bottoms of her feet? Some issues aren’t obvious unless you’ve encountered them before and know what to look for.

Beyond that could you feel for her keel to see how pronounced it is? You won’t feel it at all if she’s overweight, if she’s healthy you’ll feel a nice slope that graduates to it, but if she’s underweight it will feel like an abrupt blade jutting out from her body.

What do her droppings look like? Have you noticed any unusual colors like bright green, yellow, orange, pink, red, black, or mostly white? Have you noticed any that are bubbly?

Have you seen her eat recently? Does she eat as often as the other goose?
Also does she have access to oyster shell?

Most of the time limping is caused by a nutritional deficiency, sometimes even if they have a balanced feed they can still end up with a deficiency because of numerous issues like bullying, a parasite or infection, or some other issue.

If she were my bird I’d start her off on a round of corid just to be sure and then start her on a regimen of B vitamin complex and rooster booster every day for a week and see how she does.

There isn’t clear information that I’ve found online that actually documents incidences of Marricks in waterfowl so either they’re immune or partially immune to it or that incidences of it are so low that they’re rarely reported, I can’t say that you can rule it out completely but it’s probably unlikely that that’s the issue.



Corid oral dosage is 0.1 ml per pound once or twice a day.