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Posting this goose post here, too, as the duck parents might share some knowledge and experience of health cases both ducks and geese might have.
I have some photos of the goose after he passed away, but I'm still not ready to post them due to grief.
The goose was Duckling the goose, for those of you who know him. He's 6 years old. Although he had some respiratory mold infection history, his breathing has seemed OK for a while - no heavy breathing, no constant gaping, no constant panting. He still made his comfy voice and other sounds recently. He had been eating actively, too. Within 5 hours of his passing away, he could still make his greeting voice, but when he tried, the blood (see below) seemed to stop him from making the full greeting voice.
On Tuesday, May 27th, 2025, around 8PM, my family noticed he had blood coming from his nostrils, and some blood of an area size of about a fist on his breast. We didn't see any external injury.
Not long before we took him to the hospital, he showed interest in eating.
We took him to an animal hospital (Dove Lewis in Portland, Oregon, USA) as soon as possible. When he's in the car, initially, his breath was OK, and he was standing, but I noticed his feathers' ends weren't looking normal in terms of the shapes and texture - it's much less fine than usual. In the beginning of the car time, he still drank water from time to time.
It took some time to drive to the hospital.
Later, still in the car, his bleeding amount increased (not sure if the road condition worsened the situation). Initially he started to show some signs of trying to get something out of his nostrils. Then as the bleeding amount increased. He started laying down and started to have heavier breath and panting with obvious obstructed sounds, as if there was mucus. He coughed out a lot of blood. There was a lot of blood in the car.
When we arrived at the hospital, he was taken for treatment almost immediately. Not long after that, the vet came to suggest us to be with him for his last time. The vet told us with the amount of blood, it's unlikely for him to survive.
We were taken to the room, and we can see they used a tube to collect some blood, not sure if it's to prevent air congestion. However, there was a lot of blood from his nostrils and on the ground.
The technician asked me if I wanted to sign the euthanasia agreement form. I signed almost immediately, but before euthanasia happened, Duckling passed away.
Duckling will be sent to Oregon State University for necropsy on Wednesday, but we don't know when the results will come out.
The amount of bleeding was so much that the vet suspected a car crash, but he had been in the backyard.
We have 2 other geese. They seem normal so far (~1 AM on Wednesday). One of them had some lettuce not long ago. The other seemed to be the watch goose as usual.
While waiting for the necropsy results, any knowledge or experience of potential cause of death (DVE? HNEG / HNEG (https://www.researchgate.net/figure/fig1_269992594 )? Other diseases? Other injuries? Other causes of internal bleeding? Poisoning? etc.), possible ways to prevent the other geese to encounter something similar, emergency treatment, etc. highly appreciated.
I have some photos of the goose after he passed away, but I'm still not ready to post them due to grief.
The goose was Duckling the goose, for those of you who know him. He's 6 years old. Although he had some respiratory mold infection history, his breathing has seemed OK for a while - no heavy breathing, no constant gaping, no constant panting. He still made his comfy voice and other sounds recently. He had been eating actively, too. Within 5 hours of his passing away, he could still make his greeting voice, but when he tried, the blood (see below) seemed to stop him from making the full greeting voice.
On Tuesday, May 27th, 2025, around 8PM, my family noticed he had blood coming from his nostrils, and some blood of an area size of about a fist on his breast. We didn't see any external injury.
Not long before we took him to the hospital, he showed interest in eating.
We took him to an animal hospital (Dove Lewis in Portland, Oregon, USA) as soon as possible. When he's in the car, initially, his breath was OK, and he was standing, but I noticed his feathers' ends weren't looking normal in terms of the shapes and texture - it's much less fine than usual. In the beginning of the car time, he still drank water from time to time.
It took some time to drive to the hospital.
Later, still in the car, his bleeding amount increased (not sure if the road condition worsened the situation). Initially he started to show some signs of trying to get something out of his nostrils. Then as the bleeding amount increased. He started laying down and started to have heavier breath and panting with obvious obstructed sounds, as if there was mucus. He coughed out a lot of blood. There was a lot of blood in the car.
When we arrived at the hospital, he was taken for treatment almost immediately. Not long after that, the vet came to suggest us to be with him for his last time. The vet told us with the amount of blood, it's unlikely for him to survive.
We were taken to the room, and we can see they used a tube to collect some blood, not sure if it's to prevent air congestion. However, there was a lot of blood from his nostrils and on the ground.
The technician asked me if I wanted to sign the euthanasia agreement form. I signed almost immediately, but before euthanasia happened, Duckling passed away.
Duckling will be sent to Oregon State University for necropsy on Wednesday, but we don't know when the results will come out.
The amount of bleeding was so much that the vet suspected a car crash, but he had been in the backyard.
We have 2 other geese. They seem normal so far (~1 AM on Wednesday). One of them had some lettuce not long ago. The other seemed to be the watch goose as usual.
While waiting for the necropsy results, any knowledge or experience of potential cause of death (DVE? HNEG / HNEG (https://www.researchgate.net/figure/fig1_269992594 )? Other diseases? Other injuries? Other causes of internal bleeding? Poisoning? etc.), possible ways to prevent the other geese to encounter something similar, emergency treatment, etc. highly appreciated.
