Embden Goose

[Hillery Vincent]

What brand and what's the nutritional content on the label?

 

[Hillery Vincent]

It is some I order from the hatchery I got her parents from. So I'm not quite sure they package it themselves.

 

[Hillery Vincent]

I wouldn't rule out heatstroke. OP is in the South. And her bird is still a gosling. I lost a few to heatstroke before I figured that one out. I've also had goslings getting into washwater run off and getting apoplecticform septecimia. That was so fast, I could only save one. I had no antibiotics except choramycitin on hand and no access to anything else(I dosed the first one with that and he keeled over asap!). All I could find in my cupboard was a small can of wasabi powder. So I dosed them with it.. Well two more were too far gone but the smallest, though looking quite woosie made it through.. I'd given her 3 doses in all.
She lived a long happy sassy life. (White Chinese who hated for my mother-in-law to try to sweep.)

Yes I am now starting to this she had heat exhaustion, I am seeing so much improvement in her today. She has been inside my house since we noticed something was wrong with her, she is acting like herself again.

 

[Hillery Vincent]

Personally, I think either it's from the heat or she got a bug. I would try horseradish, or wasabi paste if she doesn't improve or looks any bit worse. Goslings really need access to baths and shade all day in super hot weather (90°F and up).

She has all the shade she wants or needs outside, and they have 24/7 access to their pond. I also keep multiple fresh clean drinking water throughout the yard where they all roam at. They all go lay under my house when closer to it, or they will lay under my camper is closer to that. They have also went laid inside the barn with the dog if they were closer that way.

 

[Hillery Vincent]

So you're thinking heat stroke as a possibility? It's been pretty hot out here over the last month, but mine are adults and do have access to shade and plenty of water.

Mine do as well, and she is a little over a month old. Today I am seeing so much improvement I think she was heat exhausted.

 

[AGeese]

That's good. Not sure if heat stroke is anything like in people for geese, but if so they could be more sensitive to heat now.

 

[skeeeter]

It seems to me that some goslings don't realize they are heat stressed til they almost keel over. I have had to pick some of them up, as I'd noticed that they were panting, and put them in their pool. Just setting them down next to it sometimes just didn't work. Where do you think the saying "Silly Goose" came from?