A gander with mysterious chronic illness

[Miss Lydia]

I thought he had been on antibiotics best go back an reread!

 

[Goosebaby]

Update:
The probiotics seem to be helping him digest his food better, he still has runny weird droppings quite a bit but I’ve seen some better formed goose logs.

His abdominal fluid completly disappeared and he had a tight little butt for a few days, today it feels like there could be a little but it’s so slight I could just be imagining it, I’m not sure.

On a disturbing note in the last two days his bill has started turning yellow again.

His bill started fading to yellow after last year’s molt, it may be coincidence that it’s doing it again around this year’s molt but I personally think they’re related, something to do with horomones.

I think I also may have solved how it’s turning yellow and the confusion with jaundice and anemia that I had before.
I used to think he was anemic or had jaudice and that caused the color change last year but my vet said that birds don’t show those conditions visually therefore it couldn’t cause his beak to turn yellow from bilirubin buildup or lack of red blood cells.
The top fleshy crown of the bill and along the sides are where there’s noticeable changes in color, where there’s more blood flow. I’ve noticed that it fluctuates through the day and looks more noticeably yellow when he’s been at rest so I think it’s blood pressure related, so it isn’t jaundice. It doesn’t explain to me how anemia wouldn’t have a similar visual effect though.

I remember reading about two gander brothers on Majuestic Waterfowl, the Duran Duran brothers. One sadly died of renal tumors and his beak turned yellow not long before and they mentioned that as a clear sign of jaundice, and I read a really ancient medical journal that mentioned geese looking yellow after they’d had their livers surgically removed, hence why I thought it was jaundice.

There seems to be a lot of gaps in medical information regarding geese so there could be other reasons why the Duran Duran gander turned yellow that’s as yet unknown but his condition could have also caused low blood pressure, and if low blood pressure can alter the color of the bill maybe that’s why it was mistaken for jaundice in him and the geese that had their livers removed?

I may be wrong, I don’t know.

For anyone reading this who might have a similar situation there’s a lot of things that cause low blood pressure and low blood pressure can cause all of those things that can cause low blood pressure...which is confusing.

The root of Parsnip’s problem could be liver “#1 on the list” Heart, kidney, pancreas, colon, gall bladder, hormonal, nutritional, and more and like I said any one of those could trigger an issue with the rest.

Sometimes I really wonder if I over think stuff and he could have something mild and easily fixable, other times I argue with myself that if it was something like that I would have figured it out and fixed it ages ago.

It’s upsetting to me because it’s my Parsnip, but I wanted to post it for the off chance it could help someone else somehow if my hunch is right.