Food stuck in esophagus! HELP!!

[Miss Lydia]

Okay good. As for grit just keep it where he has access not in his food. He'll use it as he needs it. If they have access to outside they find grit that way but still leave them down.

 

[KristieM75]

Okay good. As for grit just keep it where he has access not in his food. He'll use it as he needs it. If they have access to outside they find grit that way but still leave them down.

Ok, thank you. If you can’t tell, Gilbert is my very first goose. I have so many questions, and have searched through this site for different things. This is the best place to find almost all the answers I have for my crazy questions.

 

[KristieM75]

Ok, thank you. If you can’t tell, Gilbert is my very first goose. I have so many questions, and have searched through this site for different things. This is the best place to find almost all the answers I have for my crazy questions.

I think I seen a thread or article about adding a different herbs to their water, I’m not meaning now..I wouldn’t want to make anything worse for him, but once he feels better I need to bump up his immune system.
Does anyone know of any thread or article about that. I can’t seem to find it. Also, I would need help in figuring out how much would be used since he is just one goose. I just want to try and do everything I can for him.

 

[gailbelanger]

It is right next to his food bowl. You just can’t see it because his body is blocking it. You can kinda tell he’s wanting to get a drink a few times but stops himself.

I had a rooster just going through something like what your gosling is going through. He was moving his head/neck in a really strange manner like he swallowed wrong.
I put a little apple cider vinegar and Corid in his water. Apple cider vinegar has anti bacterial properties in it so if food did get stuck and sits too long it could start to build up bacteria the Corid you'd have to look up to see if it would work for your gosling.

Also I don't know if a goose has the same kind of crop as a chicken but you should feel it to see if it's full or empty. I know that the crop can get impacted or sour when food gets stuck or sits for too long. This might be totally off base too because I never had a goose. I'm just thinking that birds are built closely, not exactly, the same.

 

[Goosebaby]

Oh my goodness, those pops are normalbut yes, they do have that consistency.
I did notice him drool and then pant when we went outside for his greens. I did notice it again last night tho. I’m thinking he’s getting too hot on the bed but he cries to get up here and there are two other people sleeping and I can’t bare to hear him cry for me so I get him. I also think he may be a bit scared of the dark.
I’ve definitely kept food down for him, I figured as long as he wanted to eat then I’d let him.

No, he doesn’t have any difficulty swallowing through the day at all. So far it’s only been that one time. This morning I made sure he got a drink of water BEFORE he ever touched his food and he did good.
I have an odd question, we got a a big bag of grit for him and I put it beside his food (it’s really smally rocks) but he doesn’t touch them. I take him outside and he goes nuts looking for them. I sprinkled the same ones outside so he’s still getting the same ones just not very many. Is that ok? Someone said to put a tiny bit in his food but I’m scared to, with what I mentioned, would you guess that he was getting plenty of grit?

I did find a vet that will let me bring in a sample of his poo to run tests, if he doesn’t find anything in the first test he will run a more thorough one. And only 45 bucks! But that will be on Monday.

A vet that will run a fecal test for $45 without having to bring the animal in is a keeper! There aren’t many vets like that in my area anymore, you scored finding him!

I can’t get my geese to eat normal sized grit, they’ll only eat baby grit, sometimes they don’t even like that and will find rocks or sand out in the yard, so your goose is fairly normal I guess. I don’t mix grit in with food, I keep it in a separate little bowl for them to access when they need it,I don’t think it’s necesary to make them eat grit when they don’t need it but different owners have different opinions on that.

My guess at this point is that your goose could just be overheating, that could be the cause of the loose runny droppings. If he continues doing the swallowing thing more and more then I would think it’s an infection, but for now it could easily just be that he’s getting to hot.

 

[KristieM75]

I had a rooster just going through something like what your gosling is going through. He was moving his head/neck in a really strange manner like he swallowed wrong.
I put a little apple cider vinegar and Corid in his water. Apple cider vinegar has anti bacterial properties in it so if food did get stuck and sits too long it could start to build up bacteria the Corid you'd have to look up to see if it would work for your gosling.

Also I don't know if a goose has the same kind of crop as a chicken but you should feel it to see if it's full or empty. I know that the crop can get impacted or sour when food gets stuck or sits for too long. This might be totally off base too because I never had a goose. I'm just thinking that birds are built closely, not exactly, the same.

Did you put the ACV in only his water? If you did happen to do that, would you know the ratio of ACV to water?
I actually have the ACV, but it’s the one with the mother, is that ok?
I did check his crop at first, it was normal, seemed to be empty in the morning and throughout the day would get a little fuller, then at night it would be really full. But these last due days it’s been really small, I can feel the bone in there throughout the whole day, even at night.
I definitely want to add the ACV to his water tho, if anyone would know the ratio to maybe a gallon of water??

 

[KristieM75]

A vet that will run a fecal test for $45 without having to bring the animal in is a keeper! There aren’t many vets like that in my area anymore, you scored finding him!

I can’t get my geese to eat normal sized grit, they’ll only eat baby grit, sometimes they don’t even like that and will find rocks or sand out in the yard, so your goose is fairly normal I guess. I don’t mix grit in with food, I keep it in a separate little bowl for them to access when they need it,I don’t think it’s necesary to make them eat grit when they don’t need it but different owners have different opinions on that.

My guess at this point is that your goose could just be overheating, that could be the cause of the loose runny droppings. If he continues doing the swallowing thing more and more then I would think it’s an infection, but for now it could easily just be that he’s getting to hot.

Would he be getting too hot from being sick or other reasons? He’s an inside baby and it’s always either 69-70 in the house. I think he’s definitely sick with something. I went to pick him up this morning to take him out for him to eat his grass and I was shocked to feel how much different he felt from one day to the next. I could actually feel his ribs and that’s never happened before and he just seemed so tiny compared to what he has been.
He’s still staying on the cold tile in the dining room floor, but I did put a small throw for him and he seems to lay on that some.

Oh, and I definitely agree with you, I couldn’t believe the vet would do the tests for such a cheap rate. But I did forget to ask what his actual fee was. Fingers crossed that it’s still the same when I call on Monday morning. I didn’t even think to ask that part.
I’ve been keeping his grit separated from his food, he just won’t touch it unless it’s outside in the dirt and he gets to look for them. I was just hoping I wasn’t doing that wrong and that was the cause of his issues.

 

[KristieM75]

The super smelly poos could be cecal poo, it will have the consistency of pudding and smell pretty strong, those are normal.

That doesn’t mean that he doesn’t have diarrhea, which is abnormal.

Let him eat as much as he wants, it’s a good sign he’s still eating.

At his age goslings can go through metabolic changes that cause them to overheat easily, and if he’s overheating and panting that could cause him to drool.

Have you seen him drool at any other time during the day?
Does he have difficulty swallowing when he isn’t eating? Will he make the swallowing motion through the day?
Have you noticed any red or orange in his droppings?

I know I’ve already replied to this but one thing that’s new today is that he will be playing with something like the pop dot on the back of my phone and making his little peep peep noises but has to stop pretty quickly To catch his breath, at least that’s what it seems like he’s doing.
He hasn’t finish a whole bowl of his food today, by now he’s usually finished two or more.
I can also feel his ribs when I pick him up, I’ve never felt them before. He feels like he’s lost so much weight just from one day to the next.
He’s super quiet, which is NOT like him at all. He usually so chatty and chirping all through the house because he doesn’t hardly ever sit still.
I can actually feel the bone in his crop throughout the whole day, even at night. One vet that we spoke to yesterday said to give him pepto and that’s been helping a little bit from him not having just liquid diarrhea, he’s had some solids, but they are more white than they are tan/brown or green.

 

[african chickens]

I know I’ve already replied to this but one thing that’s new today is that he will be playing with something like the pop dot on the back of my phone and making his little peep peep noises but has to stop pretty quickly To catch his breath, at least that’s what it seems like he’s doing.
He hasn’t finish a whole bowl of his food today, by now he’s usually finished two or more.
I can also feel his ribs when I pick him up, I’ve never felt them before. He feels like he’s lost so much weight just from one day to the next.
He’s super quiet, which is NOT like him at all. He usually so chatty and chirping all through the house because he doesn’t hardly ever sit still.
I can actually feel the bone in his crop throughout the whole day, even at night. One vet that we spoke to yesterday said to give him pepto and that’s been helping a little bit from him not having just liquid diarrhea, he’s had some solids, but they are more white than they are tan/brown or green.

poor baby

 

[Goosebaby]

I know I’ve already replied to this but one thing that’s new today is that he will be playing with something like the pop dot on the back of my phone and making his little peep peep noises but has to stop pretty quickly To catch his breath, at least that’s what it seems like he’s doing.
He hasn’t finish a whole bowl of his food today, by now he’s usually finished two or more.
I can also feel his ribs when I pick him up, I’ve never felt them before. He feels like he’s lost so much weight just from one day to the next.
He’s super quiet, which is NOT like him at all. He usually so chatty and chirping all through the house because he doesn’t hardly ever sit still.
I can actually feel the bone in his crop throughout the whole day, even at night. One vet that we spoke to yesterday said to give him pepto and that’s been helping a little bit from him not having just liquid diarrhea, he’s had some solids, but they are more white than they are tan/brown or green.

Then he does sound like he has an infection, he could have gotten something from eating the dirt and rocks outside, but not giving him access to the outside world would leave his immune system unprepared so unfortunatly there’s not much you could have done to prevent it, some things just happen.

I would get his poo tested for sure, worms, coccidia, giardia, or some sort of bacterial infection are most likely.

In the meantime most feed stores carry corid (amprolium) and safeguard horse wormer (fenbendazole) if you can have someone pick those up for you, you can start treating for worms and coccidia yourself.
Corid works by inhibiting the coccidia from absorbing b vitamins which will starve them out, but it’s important that you do not give b vitamins during the treatment time (5 days) or it makes the treatment useless.
Fenbendazole is a broad spectrum wormer that eliminates most worms except tapeworms, it also has some effectiveness against giardia.

Do you know the exact weight of your goose so I can give dosage for the wormer if you do end up getting it?