Can 3 week old goslings get damp?

[starrymutt]

My two new goslings were in their outside brooder all day since I was busy and it's been raining. I took them out for an hour when it stopped but noticed that their chests were wet, I'm not sure I'd say soaked through but damp enough I tried toweling them off (before their big siblings started screaming at me to let them go).

I'm assuming they went swimming in their water bowl and then while they were outside it started raining again, so I quickly put them back in the brooder, they obviously don't like it and won't stop screaming.

Will they get sick? It's humid and in the 80s, low tonight is 60s. I took them off the lamp last week.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

They will be fine. They are very waterproof. I generally let mine start swimming at around their age.

 

[Susan Skylark]

Baby wild geese are in the water in seeming seconds, they are made for it!

 

[Jenbirdee]

awww they be fine . wish you had pics, sounds very cute