Deformed Sebastopol Geese

[animallover75]

We took in three Sebastopol geese and two of them have deformed wings. We have been told by Cornell’s exotic department and another vet that it is not angel wing but no one knows what it is.
They act perfectly normal minus their wings are bent downward. They can stretch them out and lift them up and down just fine.
Does anyone know what it may be? We have no idea on ages. They are females.
A second issue is one is one is somewhat smaller than the other two and she also is slower and can not walk more than a short distance and wants to lay down. The other two often run her over. Again we see no physical signs on the outside of her and other than walking slow and laying down often she seems normal. She is one of the ones with the downward wings. But hers are not as bent as the other one.
We are new to geese.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

Wow that's sad... I hope you get some help. I've never seen that.

 

[Isadora]

Wow that's sad... I hope you get some help. I've never seen that.

I agree. Sad and strange.

 

[Goosebaby]

Angel wing is the twisting of basically the “wrist” causing that part, the tips and pinion feathers to stick straight out sideways. They can hold their wings up but the wrist sticks out.
https://poultrykeeper.com/external-problems/angel-wing/

It’s defi not angel wing though something looks structurally off, it isn’t normal drooping from feeling ill, I’m sorry but something is very wrong.
The smallest is the most critically effected from what you described, I think something is probably wrong with all of their health but the smallest is critically ill, any number of things could cause her behavior, from an infection, organ damage, to starvation.

Do you know what they weigh or have done a physical examination by any chance?

I can’t say really what’s wrong based on the pictures but there could be genetic defects at play here, or wherever they came from they were extremely malnourished while growing.

 

[Goosebaby]

Question: Can they move their wings fully?

Also where did you get them? Was it a hatchery, backyard breeder, or rescue?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

They kinda look like my BBW turkey we think had a stroke or 2. Not saying that's what's wrong, but they do look similar in the pictures

 

[yesterDAYNE]

To me it sounds almost like they might not have the muscle definition to be able to hold the wings up? With being unable to walk far and everything I almost wonder if somehow they just don't have enough muscle to keep themselves really going.

 

[ColtHandorf]

To me it sounds almost like they might not have the muscle definition to be able to hold the wings up? With being unable to walk far and everything I almost wonder if somehow they just don't have enough muscle to keep themselves really going.

Sometimes a gosling or two in a clutch does this, but not to this extent. It's almost like their feathers grow in too quickly and some of them just can't quite manage to keep them pulled up. Have you had the opportunity to actually lay your hands on them. Stretch the wings and see what they do? Do they run and flap them when they are excited? Or do they just hang limply?

 

[Miss Lydia]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/wing-problems-in-sebastopol-goslings.787917/

 

[animallover75]

Wow that's sad... I hope you get some help. I've never seen that.

Yes that is what everyone is saying.