Gosling foot injury help *PICTURES*

[rpittchickie]

We have three 2/3-week old white Chinese goslings who have quickly stolen our hearts and become an integral part of our daily lives. Today we were out walking around (my 2 year old, 3 month old in the stroller, and I) and unbeknownst to me, the goslings had huddled under the stroller. Of course baby was crying, I was distracted and doing a million things at once as every parent always is. Before I knew it, I saw one of them flop/trip and knew something terrible had happened. I picked him up and his poor little toe was very clearly broken/had been run over with the stroller wheel. I can’t tell if it’s just the one or if one of the others is also broken. He does still try to stand and hobble but there is clear swelling beginning. I just feel sick. What can I do here? I will try to splint but should I wait until 24-48 hours when the swelling reduces some? Have I just robbed this sweet baby of any future quality of life? I feel so awful Thank you for any guidance. I will upload a picture as soon as I can get back out and take one here in the next hour.

 

[rpittchickie]

Poor sweetie. I’ve splinted one of my chicken’s feet before for curly toe paralysis and did something kind of similar for this baby with a cardboard base with a cotton square between the foot and the cardboard, some sensitive tape spreading the foot into proper alignment and adhering it to the cardboard, then some vet wrap/Conan up around the leg some. He’s having a hard time walking with this as it’s kind of cumbersome but the foot is staying in good alignment…the leg however seems to be splaying outward now what should I do?

 

[JRies]

It dose look bruised and swollen so may want to uses some ice to get the swelling down. I would encourage him to not move around allot if you can.

Had a gosling who got a broken leg. Put her in a brooder box next to the other goslings she was happy to lay still. Floated her in the bathroom sink about 4 times a day. she was all healed in about 2 weeks and stopped limping about a week after that. the young ones grow bones fast and heal fast.

I had a yearling get her toes broke and it took a while I kept her quiet in small pen with thick wood shavings for a soft bed and then put here in a water trough with water for a few floats every day took her about 4 weeks to even want to walk.

 

[rpittchickie]

It dose look bruised and swollen so may want to uses some ice to get the swelling down. I would encourage him to not move around allot if you can.

Had a gosling who got a broken leg. Put her in a brooder box next to the other goslings she was happy to lay still. Floated her in the bathroom sink about 4 times a day. she was all healed in about 2 weeks and stopped limping about a week after that. the young ones grow bones fast and heal fast.

I had a yearling get her toes broke and it took a while I kept her quiet in small pen with thick wood shavings for a soft bed and then put here in a water trough with water for a few floats every day took her about 4 weeks to even want to walk.

Thank you so much for this! I did get him isolated a bit to where he’s able to lay and doesn’t have to move much to eat or drink. I was so excited this morning to see he was bearing weight and a ton of the swelling had subsided! I now we still have a long road to go but even a little bit of improvement was such a great feeling. Thanks so much for the reply, it makes me hopeful!!