Adult geese not walking for long time...

[Tiago Leonardo]

I have a 3 year old female which does not walk for almost 2 months. She was getting slower and slower and sudendly stopped walking.
In the begining I took her to the vet and injuries were detected. I then started feeding her some vitamin supplements advised by the vet.
After 2 weeks with not improvement I read a bit more and figured out niacin defficiency should be the problem (the supplement had no niacin).
I have been feeding her 200 mg of niacin daily since then and noticed some improvement, but she is not yet walking properly, although standing.
She was always eating and drinking. Will she ever recover? Would it be advisable to inject niacin?

 

[IvysAnimals]

I'm not sure of injecting the Niacin, nut I would say help her up and try to almost reteach her how to walk and build strength.. If she's improving, that's great! I don't know if she'll ever get better or be 100% better, but there is a good chance she might! Hopefully that helps and all goes well!

 

[Tiago Leonardo]

Thanks a lot! Have you experienced a similar situation?

 

[IvysAnimals]

Thanks a lot! Have you experienced a similar situation?

I've had similar situations with my chicken and ducks, but not my geese, they seem to be pretty healthy. Usually it's just with their diet, age, amount of exercise, possible injuries and genes

 

[Tiago Leonardo]

Thanks! And did they manage to recover?
Did you experience it with adult ducks? How long did they take to recover?

 

[IvysAnimals]

Thanks! And did they manage to recover?
Did you experience it with adult ducks? How long did they take to recover?

They did! I've had it with little babies and adults, it can take a couple of days, 1 was 2 weeks, and some were months.. It can take a while depending on how hard it was for them