Gosings are picking on my smaller ducklings

[KymSommers]

My ducks and geese have been together the entire time I’ve had them and issues have started this week. My bigger to geese are picking on the smallest duckling and almost killed it today. These birds will be 4 weeks old on Friday and the ducks are 5 Peking and 1 crested Peking and the geese are 2 African Greys and 2 Toulouse. I looked up what might be causing it but I’m not sure what to do. I read it could be caused by boredom, being too hot, lack of space or a need for more protein. Please help me I isolated the duckling and not sure what to do besides let it heal. These are my fair projects for FFA and 4H please help me.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Yes....The Poopers need to go out to the coop bad run now..

....They are bored and all lettuce will do is make them poop loose and more..

...lol


Best wishes!

Hanging romaine lettuce is one way of giving gosling something to do besides chewing on each other which happens quite often. When they are bored and really doesn't make their poop that much different than normal except a smidge green.

 

[Miss Lydia]

My ducks and geese have been together the entire time I’ve had them and issues have started this week. My bigger to geese are picking on the smallest duckling and almost killed it today. These birds will be 4 weeks old on Friday and the ducks are 5 Peking and 1 crested Peking and the geese are 2 African Greys and 2 Toulouse. I looked up what might be causing it but I’m not sure what to do. I read it could be caused by boredom, being too hot, lack of space or a need for more protein. Please help me I isolated the duckling and not sure what to do besides let it heal. These are my fair projects for FFA and 4H please help me.

Time to give each ones their own space. Put the ducks together and the geese together. Make sure they all have plenty of room to move around and try things like hanging heads of Romaine lettuce up for the geese to nibble on and interact with. Geese are bad for nibbling on each other too so you have to give them something to do. If the weather is warm take them outside with supervision and let them run around play in the dirt and nibble grass. Do the same for your ducks and be sure to give the lil duckling who is injured a buddy duck so it won't be alone.

 

[Ducks4us]

Hanging romaine lettuce is one way of giving gosling something to do besides chewing on each other which happens quite often. When they are bored and really doesn't make their poop  that much different than normal  except a smidge green. 

Agree, great for boredom. Didnt change poop at all, they already eat a ton of grass and drink a ton of water.

A patch of grass /dirt dug of from the yard if you have a place you can take it from works too.
We dug some up when planting trees and gave ours a patch. They love it

 

[Ducks4us]

Yes this is the one the geese kept picking on. He was responding but then stopped he would stand up and try to walk but now he just lays there... He's drinking water great and was acting like he wanted food so I gave him some but wet it some he ate a couple bites and went back to sleep and seemed to be doing alright under the circumstances

well that sounds a little better already. i hope he makes it

 

[Miss Lydia]

I do not but I will get some and give him. There were no issues that I could see

Okay just checking since he is the only one hurt. Sometimes the other birds will pick up on one not quite right and pick on them.

PND is an awesome product. Just put it right inside the bill tiny bits at a time. It is fast at getting in the blood stream.

 

[KymSommers]

@Miss LydiaI will do that

 

[BirdCrazy12]

I am so sorry about your little ducklings @KymSommers! My first geese also killed my two first ducks. It wasn't probably from lack of space or lack of protein. Boredom is more likely. I would advise you to separate them. You can do this in a few ways. The first is to put them in completely different pens. The second is to put hardware cloth divider into the pen to separate them, but so that they can see each other. Then they will eventually make up on their own. I hope this helped you and I hope your babies get better

-BirdCrazy12

 

[KymSommers]

Thank you both so much I am working on separating them right now and I will add some lettuce in for the geese

 

[chickens really]

Yes....The Poopers need to go out to the coop bad run now......They are bored and all lettuce will do is make them poop loose and more.....lol


Best wishes!