Goose lovers – please help!!

[Iain Utah]

UPDATE: Our wonderful byc friend who visited Carole's place today has agreed to take ALL remaining geese!!! They are getting picked up on Tuesday!!! We have a 100% liquidation success!!

 

[psue]

UPDATE: Our wonderful byc friend who visited Carole's place today has agreed to take ALL remaining geese!!! They are getting picked up on Tuesday!!! We have a 100% liquidation success!!

to byc friend

 

[Goose and Fig]

That is WONDERFUL! You guys are so great.

 

[kraftyladies]

UPDATE: Our wonderful byc friend who visited Carole's place today has agreed to take ALL remaining geese!!! They are getting picked up on Tuesday!!! We have a 100% liquidation success!!

 

[Miss Lydia]

 

[Marty1876]

UPDATE: Our wonderful byc friend who visited Carole's place today has agreed to take ALL remaining geese!!! They are getting picked up on Tuesday!!! We have a 100% liquidation success!!

Oh IAIN!!! Thats perfectly amazingly completely wonderful!

I'm gonna go nominate you for BYC FRIEND.

 

[1MrsMagoo]

Great work Iain and Celtic. Not only have you managed to save all the geese, but more than likely have done a great deal through your postings to help the other fowl and poultry needing homes as well.
Iain, I really have to say that I am very impressed with not only the efforts, but the amount of thought you have put into not only finding these geese homes, but good homes where they will receive the proper care and management they deserve.

 

[Iain Utah]

Thanks everyone!!! I am thrilled that we have gotten all the geese off Carole's property. But we still have a ways to go to getting these guys placed into good homes.

As a follow up to my research for getting NPIP certified.... apparently Utah is like Cali and I have to pay my private vet to get the testing done. Cost is $25 per test. I am required to have 10 random juveniles tested, so the grand total to get NPIP certified will be $250. I have an appt on Tuesday to get this done. Now to figure out how to make a pen in my burb to fit 10 birds in it.....

In the meantime, these guys are finding their appetites and feed costs are rising to close to $15 per day. I appreciate everyone's initial response to helping and received almost $200 in donations. However, the donations have stopped rolling in completely while the costs continue to rise. Factoring in the $200 offset of donations, I have invested over $1300 into this rescue, am facing a $250 vet bill, and an ongoing $100 per week food bill.

Any additional financial help would be a great help!!

 

[Iain Utah]

Lots happening over here. I have a tentative commitment to place the beautiful adult white african trio with Jim Konecny, the president of the international waterfowl breeder's association and a wonderful man! He is also using his inner contacts to help place the other white africans!! All buffs are placed and a waiting list is being developed (just in case). I believe an awesome person from south Florida is taking our group of brown africans. I am excited for them (geese and new owners). We still have a few adult grey pairs, but some have tentative commitments as well. We still have 6-7 grey ganders that need homes, but I have various people like Jim Konecny and Dennis Fuller contacting their contacts.

We are setting up a pen off the adults' pasture today. Wednesday, our local avian sanctuary hero is coming up to help us worm, re-sex and tag, and get the two greys that may need attention into a separate medical pen (also being set up today). And then Tuesday, I am taking 8 juveniles (plus my Spirit girl and her companion) to the vet for salmonella pullorum testing to get NPIP certified. I will also get a recheck on worms to see if 2nd treatment needed.

Hope to get a report tomorrow on status of the remaining birds scheduled to be picked up on Tuesday from Carole's place.

Thank you to those who recently made additional donations!!! It really helps!!

 

[psue]

Awesome news! Really glad the africans are going to people that really know how rare and special they really are

for good news for the ones tomarrow!