Goose lovers – please help!!

[Iain Utah]

Steven, I believe I got 6 white females and 4 white males, so I have a pair you can adopt!!!!

 

[StevenW.]

Steven, I believe I got 6 white females and 4 white males, so I have a pair you can adopt!!!!

Even though that is very tempting.. A trip to Utah would be a 3,000 mile round' trip.. Plus the Escalade gets about 18 MPG if you drive the speed limit (

) Then with the trailer hooked on to it, I would be lucky to get about 14-15 MPG. AND I would be driving by myself and I would go crazy.. UNLESS someone is already taking a trip to Iain's house and wouldn't mind doing a little pit stop through Illinois.

 

[StevenW.]

And then I would just have to go and get some birds from Holderreads.. That would be a HUGE disaster right there!

 

[ChristineR]

Christine, those are just the geese. She has at least 200 chickens, 40+ emus, 20 ducks, 12+ llamas, a half dozen ostriches, 3+ dogs... and that is just what I saw when going to the section of her property that had the geese.

Holy cow! I didn't realize all of them were still left. They all have to go? What about the dogs and llamas?

Has animal control gotten involved? What about rescues in CA?

http://www.farmanimalshelters.org/

http://www.luckyduckrescue.org/home.html

http://animalplace.org/about-rescue-ranch.html

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Cali is having wild fire issues and shelters and rescues are having to help people who's animals/livestock that are wanted to be kept.

Kevin, Utah is shipping the birds come fall (cooler temps) you pay their feed now for while she holds them and the box and shipping fees to get them to you. Just sayin.... Total enabler over here

Christine, how I understand it is all the birds have to go, noobs ands or buts about it. Sad part is those numbers still left are after many have been already placed or removed from the property.

Iain, again glad you are finally home.

 

[SummerChick]

Bless you Ian, Happy to hear you and the geese made it home safely!

 

[psue]

My husband (Iain) and I made it home safely. We did the round trip of almost 1800 miles in 41 hours, including taking time out to fix an axle that came apart on my burb and going to a trailer place to get electric trailer brakes working before towing birds back. This was the definition of a murphy's law trip and I am a little surprised it was a successful mission. We got approximately 70 birds: 25 adults, 34-36 juveniles (6 weeks - 6 months), and 9 babies (3-5 weeks). I am extremely sad about the ones I had to leave behind, but our rig was filled to the max.

Here they are resting in front of my place while we figured out what to do with them. Juveniles were in the front half and the adults were in the rear.



Most did quite well with the trip, but there are two juveniles I am concerned about that got badly mishandled by the owner's workers in the loading process and Iain cautioned me before we left Carole's place that I need to expect these two to possibly not make it. They can barely get up, but they are eating and drinking well now that we are home. I have the juveniles in my dewlap's turnout yard for the time being. The avian sanctuary guy will be up here later to give them a careful once over and possibly take them with him if they need treatment.

Here are the juveniles in my side yard:


I have the babies in my ducks' coop until I can get a better pen set up for them this evening. The adults are in our currently empty hay shed. Hope to turn them out into pasture by the morning, though. I forgot to grab my camera when unloading them, but will take it when I go out to check on them.

Will post pics of the others and an update on the birds in a little bit.

And then I would just have to go and get some birds from Holderreads.. That would be a HUGE disaster right there!

 

[1MrsMagoo]

My husband (Iain) and I made it home safely. We did the round trip of almost 1800 miles in 41 hours, including taking time out to fix an axle that came apart on my burb and going to a trailer place to get electric trailer brakes working before towing birds back. This was the definition of a murphy's law trip and I am a little surprised it was a successful mission. We got approximately 70 birds: 25 adults, 34-36 juveniles (6 weeks - 6 months), and 9 babies (3-5 weeks). I am extremely sad about the ones I had to leave behind, but our rig was filled to the max.

Gosh, sounds like one of my mis-adventures...lol. Seriously though, I am very glad that you, your husband, and all the geese made the trip safely. I know what kind of torturous trip that many miles in those few of hours can be (We moved ourselves from NE Ohio to SE Louisiana...made multiple 2,022 mile round trips over the course of a few weeks).

I am so sad for the ones still on her property: Thank goodness you took initiative and got as many as you did. Hopefully, members in California will be able to take some of them and the Craigslist sales continue to be strong. Get yourself some rest because it sounds like you are going to have a busy day tomorrow as well.

Again, great job!

 

[Iain Utah]

Thanks guys!!! I just finished up with my avian rescue guy. The two juveniles I am worried about are for very good reason. The grey dewlap is the worst and appears to have a bad spine injury. Avian guy is concerned. The buff dewlap has a broken toe and possible spine injury, but avian guy is optimistic. We gave them meticam and he put them into a sleeve and took them home to nurse them tonight. He has a 9:45 am vet appt for them tomorrow. He pays for these things with donations, so for all of those who have offered to help with money, please help with this!! His paypal is asaputah.org (asap stands for avian sanctuary and protection) He will earmark the money you spend to specifically pay for these dewlaps.

We had him give a careful check to a 3rd grey dewlap that my hubby insisted we take for him to personally have. He stuck out as being very odd from the others, but not necessarily unhealthy. Avian guy thinks there is a vision problem and may be possibly blind in one eye. So we will be making a vet appt for him in the morning. We did not have time to give the rest a careful once over, but they appear good other than being underweight. They are relaxed and eating/drinking well in the yard. We will look the rest of them over in the next few days.

Avian guy gave each adult his own exam. Many adults have bumblefoot. Some concerned him, but none are lame. Not sure how to address these yet. Almost all of them are underweight. The zip ties were cutting into some of their legs, so we cut them off. He vent sexed each and the numbers were correct for grey dewlaps, but he believes the white africans are 2 females/1 male. Afterward, we turned them out into the pasture. My africans were very curious to meet them.

Here they are in the hay barn, waiting to get checked over:




As for the babies, they were moved over to the hay barn for the night. They look pretty good, but one has a possible eye infection and needs ointment. However, a more careful inspection needs to be done tomorrow. Here they are in the coop this afternoon:

 

[Triplell]

The poor things. Its no wonder some of them are under weight with bumblefoot, infections,and blindness. They just couldn't compete for the food. Thank you once again for your comitment to these geese. Now with new homes maybe they can learn to live a wonderful life and a productive one too. I can't wait to see my new babies this fall!! You are to be commended.