4 Month Old Sebastopol Won't Stand

[Goosebaby]

I'll give that try, right now she's just kind of dosing in and out of sleep. Just wondering if antibiotics/anti inflammatory meds can make them sleepy? I'm wondering if she's just really tired or it's more than that. I know this has to be stressful but I brought her in from outside because it started raining.

Exactly how is she behaving? Is she napping with her beak tucked into her wing or is she going in and out of consciousness?

 

[Cuspy]

This is her to tonight, still not walking, drinking and has been given her meds and some syringe feeding (haven't received the tube yet, should come tomorrow) still preening and trying to stand

 

[Goosebaby]

This is her to tonight, still not walking, drinking and has been given her meds and some syringe feeding (haven't received the tube yet, should come tomorrow) still preening and trying to stand

She looks like she’s doing well.

 

[Cuspy]

She looks like she’s doing well.

You'd think in the water, but on land she's struggling to stand and not eating and stressing her momma out

 

[JRies]

You'd think in the water, but on land she's struggling to stand and not eating and stressing her momma out

Just to give you a idea on timeline with mine she got to go out yesterday for a little while. Really limping but she is strong. I don't remember the first day she went down and I did catch her before she completely went down. But to yesterday I think was about 10 days. Today she is back out with the flock but walking like her leg was in a cast limping. First 5 days were very little attempts to stand. It takes time but your girl looks good. It takes time especially at her age. She is healing and developing at the same time. My girl hatched in early June. so close in age.

 

[Cuspy]

Just to give you a idea on timeline with mine she got to go out yesterday for a little while. Really limping but she is strong. I don't remember the first day she went down and I did catch her before she completely went down. But to yesterday I think was about 10 days. Today she is back out with the flock but walking like her leg was in a cast limping. First 5 days were very little attempts to stand. It takes time but your girl looks good. It takes time especially at her age. She is healing and developing at the same time. My girl hatched in early June. so close in age.

I appreciate that, I've had many sick chickens but never a sick goose. So my mind is in the "rapidly decline and be dead the next morning" space because that's how chickens can be unfortunately. But she seems very sturdy, and I'm just trying to be patient.

 

[Goosebaby]

If it’s a vitamin deficiency it can sometimes take a few weeks to recover the ability to walk, assuming that’s the issue. If it was hardware poisoning she probably would have worsened and passed away by now without the CaEDTA so my guess is it does seem like a vitamin disorder or an illness that caused a deficiency or was caused by a deficiency.
There are some other things that can cause lameness, like some sort of trauma or laying issues but she’s still too young for that.

The best thing at the moment is to rule out some more common causes of going of feed which are coccidia or some other gi issue. I would say it would be a good idea to get a gram stain and fecal float but parasite testing is fairly notorious for coming up with false negatives, they can be a lot of help if they turn out positive but if the parasite isn’t shedding while samples were taken it’s not likely to show anything.
You can try putting her on a round of corid but you’ll have to stop giving her vitamin supplements during treatment or it will be pointless. If you give her an oral dose you can shorten the treatment to three days rather than 5 days though. Once she’s off corid start giving her vitamins again, I would strongly suggest also adding a liquid B vitamin Complex so she’s getting a high concentration of all the Bs.

It might also just be her diet, it’s important to know what feed she’s on, not all feed is appropriate. If feed is over 4 months old it starts losing potency and their nutrition will suffer. If it’s layer feed or chick start, often that is formulated for chickens and doesn’t have enough B vitamins for waterfowl, the extra calcium in layer feed is also unhealthy long term for males and females that aren’t currently laying and the calcium can also absorb nutrients.

As for her condition, she is in serious condition without a doubt, but the fact that she is preening is a very good sign and she hasn’t reached dire condition. Whatever you’re doing is helping her.
When they stop preening, the eyes get sunken, and overall they get a sucked up ragged look, they’re in need of critical care, sometimes even oxygen because emaciation and anemia are setting in.
This is my gander Roxby a few years back who went through several bouts of partial paralysis and he got pretty close to me losing him where he lost all ability to move his legs, he wasn’t able to preen at all, and was struggling to keep his neck up. I had alot of trouble figuring out what was wrong and treating him because it turned out he had three things going on at once, coccidia, giardia, and a clostridium infection that caused him to get vitamin deficient because he wasn’t absorbing any nutrients from anything he was fed. He survived because he was moved inside and was under constant intensive care and alot of medication.

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The point is though is your goose is doing better at the moment so that is a good sign and the path to recovery once they’ve gone off their legs is often slow and comes in various steps, think of it as lots of little victories in the right direction. You’re doing good so far.

 

[Cuspy]

This is her today, loved the bigger pool vs tub. Recieved my tube for tube feeding this afternoon and did my first one following this video (although for ducks still very helpful)

And she did great! Although I did go a little rogue with my formula, a combination of critical care powder from the vet, peas, banana, chick starter, hot water, and some pedialyte and using my emulsifier wand. I found the more liquid the easier to depress down the tube and she did awesome!

 

[Goosebaby]

This is her today, loved the bigger pool vs tub. Recieved my tube for tube feeding this afternoon and did my first one following this video (although for ducks still very helpful)

And she did great! Although I did go a little rogue with my formula, a combination of critical care powder from the vet, peas, banana, chick starter, hot water, and some pedialyte and using my emulsifier wand. I found the more liquid the easier to depress down the tube and she did awesome!

That’s wonderful news and I like your recipe!

 

[Cuspy]

Update: she is starting to stand unsupported but when she tries to walk she loses balance and starts hobbling backwards until she plops down again