goose warts!!

[Miss Lydia]

My first guess would be pox, but I've never seen pox in waterfowl, so check it out.

-Kathy

I have never heard of water fowl getting fowl pox either but I guess it could be it does sort of fit. How did you treat your chickens? I'd try the poultry aid on these places and see if it helps. Maybe try and keep them out of the pond till they are gone so an open sore isn't a place for bacteria to enter in.
Thanks K.

 

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Just to let you know this is a female :/

 

[thejoyofchicks]

Just to let you know this is a female

that's awesome! i thought so, based on that funny youtube video.
what tipped you off?

 

[thejoyofchicks]

I have never heard of water fowl getting fowl pox either but I guess it could be it does sort of fit. How did you treat your chickens? I'd try the poultry aid on these places and see if it helps. Maybe try and keep them out of the pond till they are gone so an open sore isn't a place for bacteria to enter in.
Thanks K.

after some extended online research (me + google + 15 min!), it seems that waterfowl can get pox. wild ones don't usually, but domestic ones can. that fits my goosies' symptoms, and i'm pretty sure avian pox is endemic in our mosquito population. i didn't even think about vax'ing the geese.

go me!!

oddly enough, my family has raised chickens all my life 20 miles north of here and i had never heard of chickens getting "chicken pox" until this year.

as for the earlier poultry outbreak, we mainly sprayed the worst offenders with poultry aid, and added extra oils to their water. rosemary, oregano, lavender, etc... thankfully it was only dry pox, not the wet pox kind. we still lost a couple hens, mainly because i didn't know what i was dealing with right away.

unfortunately, keeping the geese out of the pond is not really feasible with our property. we have three acres, and the pond meanders across 1.5. i wonder about treating them with that "wonder" wound powder or silver to seal the pox after cleaning them (what is the singular of that?? pock?)

thanks so much for all your help!

 

[Carrosaur]

If there's no possible way to keep them out of the pond could you clean it up? Pond filters, certain types of fish, pond cleaners you can buy at co-op and such?

 

[Carrosaur]

http://www.amazon.com/Pondcare-Pond-Zyme-Enzymatic-Cleaner-1-Pound/dp/B000OVCI2S

 

[thejoyofchicks]

oh yeah, carrosaur! we have been trying various things since buying the place. carp, bass, tilapia, pool skimmers... don't get the wrong idea, it certainly has fish and turtles and such living in it. *even the occasional unwelcome gator* we also have a windmill aeration system. so it has a lot of duckweed on the top, but its not a cesspool.

. however, this being Florida, there's always some freaky bacteria, protozoa, and who knows what else in that water...

 

[Miss Lydia]

after some extended online research (me + google + 15 min!), it seems that waterfowl can get pox. wild ones don't usually, but domestic ones can. that fits my goosies' symptoms, and i'm pretty sure avian pox is endemic in our mosquito population. i didn't even think about vax'ing the geese.

go me!!

oddly enough, my family has raised chickens all my life 20 miles north of here and i had never heard of chickens getting "chicken pox" until this year.

as for the earlier poultry outbreak, we mainly sprayed the worst offenders with poultry aid, and added extra oils to their water. rosemary, oregano, lavender, etc... thankfully it was only dry pox, not the wet pox kind. we still lost a couple hens, mainly because i didn't know what i was dealing with right away.

unfortunately, keeping the geese out of the pond is not really feasible with our property. we have three acres, and the pond meanders across 1.5. i wonder about treating them with that "wonder" wound powder or silver to seal the pox after cleaning them (what is the singular of that?? pock?)

thanks so much for all your help!

I'd try that, if you close them up for the night that would be a good time to treat then they would have all night with the treatment on before getting in the pond.

 

[Carrosaur]

oh yeah, carrosaur! we have been trying various things since buying the place. carp, bass, tilapia, pool skimmers... don't get the wrong idea, it certainly has fish and turtles and such living in it. *even the occasional unwelcome gator* we also have a windmill aeration system. so it has a lot of duckweed on the top, but its not a cesspool.

. however, this being Florida, there's always some freaky bacteria, protozoa, and who knows what else in that water...

My pool backwashser thing is broken and it's compketely green with algea coverinh the sides... Great for the geese! The water runs all day so it's not sitting still and there are skimmers... Now I'm worried about what's living in it!

 

[thejoyofchicks]

My pool backwashser thing is broken and it's compketely green with algea coverinh the sides... Great for the geese! The water runs all day so it's not sitting still and there are skimmers... Now I'm worried about what's living in it!

I'm so glad I could provide you this opportunity to never get in your pool again.

. have you heard of the bacteria that go in through your nose and ears and eat your brain?! jk. as long as its a chlorine or bromine pool, you're fine!