Antibiotics for geese?

[fancbrd4me02]

I just read how serious your goose's problem is. Can you bring her inside a house or building? if you can, I thnk you should. I have no ideas for how to keep her calm while you clean the area..... don't use any of the "caine" topical painkillers. I thnk they are toxic to chickens, so they might be toxic to waterfowl too. Do you have betadine? Use that when you clean the wound. You might want to let the goose swim in saltwater while the wound is healing - just don't let her drink it. keep us updated.

 

[KellyHM]

I actually plan on putting her under general anesthesia to debride the wounds. I'm a vet, but they don't teach us how to work on water fowl in school...and everyone wonders why vets don't see poultry!

Anyways, I don't know much about anesthesia in waterfowl, and I might kill her doing it, but at least she won't die slowly from rotting tissue.

I'll let you all know how it goes.

 

[KellyHM]

Ok, just an update for anyone who's curious. I put her under general anesthesia tonight (and didn't kill her with it!) so I could debride the dead tissue and remove the maggots.

It took a bit of work, but I got most of it cleaned out. The entire area around her vent had apparently been mauled by the dogs, but I just didn't see it at first b/c of all her curly feathers. Her butt is now bald since I had to pluck the feathers in order to debride the tissue. There wasn't enough extra skin to close the wounds, so it will just have to granulate in. For now she's nice and cozy in the incubator (not the kind for eggs) and has been started on Baytril. Fingers crossed everything goes well!

 

[chickenzoo]

Sorry about your goose. Hope she does well. I always soak the area with epsom salt too. Seems to help. I wish my vet would get back to me about a prescription for Baytril..... he gets so busy....... I like to keep it on hand for emergency's.

 

[ldaziens]

Kelly,

I cringed when I read this, because my first goose, Romeo, was attacked by a dog. My step dad had decided that he was too messy and moved his house outside the chain link fence, and a neighbor's dog got loose and chased him into his house and attacked him. The vet tried to stitch him up, but his airsacs were punctured. Then, for whatever reason, we kept him outside, and, of course, he got maggots. I remember holding him while he was crying and tweezing out maggots. It is a horrible memory. Maybe why I did NOT become a vet :0 We ended up putting him to sleep, because it was obvious he was suffering. In retrospect, it makes me livid that my parents thought it was okay to put a helpless animal out where predators could easily get to it and then didn't have sense enough to bring in INSIDE to recover.

I would imagine that you could wring the neck of the kid who's responsible. Ugh! I was excited about moving to the country on 8.5 fenced acres only to discover the neighbor's crazy cocker spaniel likes to come under the fence and bark at us. That lasted about a second with my mastiff. Thank God the mastiff didn't kill that dog -- thankfully, he did the closed mouth bite / head butt, but the stress of dealing with that just about killed me. So, knowing that I was starting the poultry this spring, I got the electric net fencing from Kencove to keep my dogs and poultry in and predators and the neighbors dog out. Although they say it won't shock you if you are wearing rubber soled shoes, I can assure you that it would deter your neighbor's child, and the dog

Additionally, I have been suprised at how hard it is to find a vet that will treat poultry. I just got a shipment of 15 White Midget Turkey Poults, and 11 of them had Navel issues - Omphalitis to varying degrees. I finally called one vet who said that he could give me an anti-biotic to put in the water. I told him I had Sul-Met, and he said to use that. I would think a vet that treats poultry could make a lot of money from all of these people with poultry pets and hobby farms. From a farming perspective, the 11 poults should be culled, but here I am hand feeding them and nursing them.

 

[KellyHM]

Thanks for the response, but she died the night after she underwent anesthesia. I think the infection and stress were just too much. In hindsight if I had looked more closely under all the feathers the first day I may have been able to fox her up a little better.

 

[TennesseeTruly]

Oh Kelly, I'm so sorry hun. That stinks.

Laurie