baby geese hatrched to early....help

[jenni1]

one of geese eggs (in the incubator) starting hatching and seemed to be struggling so i helped it on out.there was some blood and yolk and the geese was pretty small compared to the 2 others that hatched on there own. and on its little belly is a place like a knot and bloody stump. this is my first dealings with hatching geese. so i washed it good in warm water to get the blood off and have been giving it sugar water with a syringe. today (day 2) it seems to be trying to walk and is moving around in the incubator alot. is there anything else i should be doing?

 

[CorralitosSunflower]

I think you helped it hatch too early. If it began pipping and zipping you should just let them be, especially if they are ahead of their time. They absorb the yolk into their stomachs just prior to hatching so if you speed the hatching this process may not be finished, my guess this is why they have a bloody stump on their stomach. I would be really careful it does not get infected, put neosporin on it daily with a q-tip and keep trying to get baby to eat and drink. Too much sugar water is not good for them either, so I would not go overboard with that. It will need to get out of the incubator soon if it is on day 2 and under a heat lamp. Good luck and keep us posted on the progress

 

[TennesseeTruly]

Unless they're in distress or you know for certain they're not going to be able to hatch, you shouldn't help! You did this baby a disservice by helping him or her to hatch. You definitely helped too early because that knot and blood means the baby hadn't yet absorbed its yolk. This baby may be weaker than the others.

I would stop feeding it sugar water. For the first 24 to 48 hours it doesn't need to eat because the yolk will take care of it. If its walking around the incubator you might be able to take it out but I don't know if it will be strong enough to put with it's siblings.

I recently had to help a male Sebastopol gosling hatch. His head was under his leg and he was stuck. I could see that from the hole in the egg. When I helped him there was no blood, no yolk, he was truly in distress. He was barely peeping.

Good luck to you and your gosling.

Laurie

 

[MrsCountryChick]

I am by no means an expert, but now that you have a weak young gosling to take care of now...... I've 'heard' of people syringe feeding small amounts of jarred baby food 1st food (protein meat in a jar) to a weak grown chicken healing from an injury or sickness or a weak chick or gosling so they can gain strength. (never done this myself, but read of it). I'd put this young sick lil one in the warm brooder with the other gosling siblings, but section off an area for this little one out of a piece of hardware cloth, so it can get both in & out of the heat, see & hear the other goslings, but can't be trampled or injured by them. Good Luck!