4 Week Goslings Pulling Poop Out Of Diapers

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Thank you for the helpful and positive feedback. Anyone else with diaper experience please feel free to add your 2 cents! Even if it is not positive experience.

I am also not so sure about the design of the Mother Goose diaper. They seems more awkward than what I've seen the adult geese in - so I thought maybe it was that they needed to grow into them. Plus they're not waterproof - which really surprised me!

 

[The goose girl]

Plus they're not waterproof - which really surprised me!

Oh yes, I totally forgot about the indoorducks harnesses having a leakguard. Although not 100% leak proof, it really helps a lot.

Here's a picture of Keld wearing his stars & stripes harness for Christmas. He was inside for six days, only out for a short walk every day, and we had no accidents! Except that he plucked lint from the carpet and started building a nest underneath the coffee table.

His name is a boys name, but he is actually a girl and started laying two weeks later.

 

[Miss Lydia]

what a cute picture, looks like she's wondering where her presents are.

 

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Oh yes, I totally forgot about the indoorducks harnesses having a leakguard. Although not 100% leak proof, it really helps a lot.

Here's a picture of Keld wearing his stars & stripes harness for Christmas.

Thanks for the info - I will look into them.

Keld is beautiful!! Our babies are MacGregor and Porig (a name from the Irish TV show Ballykissangel).

 

[Shiloh Acres]

Not a diaper story, but once I had a very small batch of goslings I was raising indoors until they got old enough to go outside. With so few goslings, and I had to separate them because one chewed the feathers of others, they looked to me a LOT for attention and to be "ok".

I kept them in plastic Rubbermaid tubs (the biggest ones I could find) lined with cheap towels. The totes were easy to move to be near me and each other if needed, and they could see out of them, but most of the mess was contained.

Just a suggestion, if you can't get the diapers to work.

 

[adrian]

Upsetting to hear some people think duck and goose diapers are cruel. That's not the case at all. They show irritation with their diapers, but I'm sure they show irritation with many things, such as leg bands, or clipped wings/pinioning in wild breeds. Pretty much nothing we're doing with them is natural. It's up to the owner to gauge the quality of life of their pets. Hopefully they are doing so fairly, realistically, and sensitively. I've had pet house geese and my friend has had a pet house duck, and they sometimes fuss with their diapers but soon become comfortable and get over it.

I mean, honestly people. Parrots are not domesticated at all, yet they live in cages, aviaries at best, and often wear harnesses and even flight suits that are very much like these diapers. Ducks and geese are at least domesticated animals.

 

[shelleyd2008]

They are crying for you when you put them in their pen because they think you are mom. They will always do that, you just have to ignore it.