I purchased my goslings from a feed store, close to me. I was getting non-medicated turkey starter for them. Then, unexpectedly they switched my feed to a medicated turkey starter, without telling me. Turns out their supplier made the switch without telling the feed store about it. They gave me a bag of non-medicated laying mash in exchange, but the damage was done. I lost a small gosling, Tiny. She was suffering from niacin defiency, butwahhabi started supplementing her, the day after I opened one of the new bags of feed is when she had seizures and died. That can't be coincidence. Now tell me how selling only non-medicated laying mash is good for growing goslings? The calcium alone is bad for babies. Cause that's all that feed store had left to offer. I stopped shopping there and now get my feed from a feed store further away, but they special order flock raiser for me, and have special ordered medicines and even chicks and goslings for me. My new feed store is where I will stay for all my flocks needs.
Not trying to take sides, but sharing what happened. I do believe that the medication in the feed was too much for a gosling that was struggling already. A fully healthy gosling may have been OK, the other 5 showed no serious issues. But they also only ate it for 2 days before I got a different feed for them. Tiny was very small, she wasn't growing as well as the other 5 geese, but she was growing. I think she could have made it, if I had known about both issues before they took her down.
Not trying to take sides, but sharing what happened. I do believe that the medication in the feed was too much for a gosling that was struggling already. A fully healthy gosling may have been OK, the other 5 showed no serious issues. But they also only ate it for 2 days before I got a different feed for them. Tiny was very small, she wasn't growing as well as the other 5 geese, but she was growing. I think she could have made it, if I had known about both issues before they took her down.
