Eagle Flight Farm
Songster
Our male Buff goose is just about 8 & 1/2 weeks old and we are at the avian vet as an emergency.
He has swallowed a portion of a length of baling twine from a square bale of hay! I could not remove it and I fear he has swallowed about 2 & 1/2 feet of the length. We had prepared their enclosure for an approaching storm last night and put fresh hay on the floor of their enclosure. The remainder of the bale (over 1/2 the bale) was on an elevated shelf. Evidently he was able to find and reach an end of the one piece of twine that was cut. (Our huge mistake!) In our rush to secure everything, we missed removing this one piece of twine that he was strong enough to remove from under the bale and tall enough to reach.
The vet is sedating him now to see if she can manually remove the length of twine. If it cannot be removed after sedation, they will proceed with surgery.
Thank you for caring and sending up a prayer for our boy. Also, heed our warning and remove any object your geese or ducks may think they need to try to consume! We had swept all their housing, run, and very large enclosure for any metal objects with a rolling magnet. But, in our rush to make them dry and safe, we missed the baling twine that we didn’t think could be reached.
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