Gosling with crooked bill/congested breathing

[r00bcub3]

Hey everyone! I’m new here and this site has been very helpful for us being new gosling parents. We found our baby about 3 weeks ago by herself with no mom and no siblings so we took her into our family. She has been eating fine and we are adding nutrients to her water but in the last week or so her bill has become crooked and she sounds congested. What else can we do to help her? We want her to live a long happy life. I will add pictures.

 

[Goosebaby]

It’s a deformity that sometimes occurs from moisture/heat discrepancies in the egg I’ve heard. I don’t think they’re capable of outgrowing it, it will be a special needs goose.
As long as they’re capable of eating and drinking on their own and their breathing doesn’t worsen I don’t see anything that would keep them from thriving though.

 

[r00bcub3]

Okay and can you explain more what you mean by moisture or heat discrepancies? She didn’t have it when she was younger at all. It only happened within the last week. I’ll show you a picture of her a couple weeks ago.

 

[Goosebaby]

Okay and can you explain more what you mean by moisture or heat discrepancies? She didn’t have it when she was younger at all. It only happened within the last week. I’ll show you a picture of her a couple weeks ago.

I’ve heard that sometimes when they’re developing in the egg if there’s to much moisture they can develop to quickly and deformities can occur. I have no idea if there’s any basis in fact with that theory though because I have little knowledge of incubating.
If they only developed that recently though I suppose it doesn’t matter and I’m clueless as to an explanation.

 

[r00bcub3]

So strange. I just hope it doesn’t get worse. Is there any other tips to keep them healthy?

 

[Goosebaby]

Unfortunatly I’m at a loss with this, I wish I could be of more help. It may continue to grow abnormally, but then it may not.
One of my girls “Delphi” was completly normal when she arrived from Metzer, she had a small bit of I think membrain stuck to one side of her face and beak, it wouldn’t come off for days and I didn’t want to hurt her by picking at it.
As time went by that spot turned into a little wrinkle, then a divot in her face as she grew. I think it presses against her sinuses just a little on that side of her face because sometimes I hear her snuffle just a little, but overall she’s healthy and happy. I wondered if it would continue to deepen but it halted.
Pic is of Delphi’s divot.


The only other goose I’ve seen with a beak similar to your baby’s would be Lucy Goose on instagram https://instagram.com/lucygooseyandfriends?igshid=h86fx5c6q113

 

[Goosebaby]

Looking around the internet ive found a few things suggesting that beak and other abnormalities may be due to contamination like pesticides, https://www.researchgate.net/public...ser_Snow_Geese_Chen_caerulescens_caerulescens

Or injury and nutritional deficiency
https://www.beautyofbirds.com/beakdeformities.html


After reading that last one maybe add a little durvet b vitamin complex and poultry nutridrench to their water and see if it prevents any more developmental issues. The b vitamin complex says it’s injectible but it can be taken orally also.

 

[r00bcub3]

Well that sounds promising since yours had it cover the nostril a little bit because that’s the one reason I was worried about her. Thank you for sending that too! She seems she will have a nice long life then

Pesticides? Eeeeek I better make sure that we keep an eye on that. We get the house sprayed every couple months.

I use the stuff in the picture is this the same stuff you are referring to?

 

[Goosebaby]

The probiotics are good for them, I’m not sure if that has vitamins in it or if it’s just microorganisms. This was the stuff I was talking about https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/durvet-hi-level-vitamin-b-complex?cm_vc=-10005

https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/nutri-drench-poultry-4-oz?solr=1&cm_vc=-10005&st=Nutri

I think those can also be found on Amazon. The b vitamins are pretty important, but the nutri-drench covers the other important vitamins like A, E, and so on. I think the little one will only need a few drops now and then.

 

[r00bcub3]

I ordered them both from that site. Thank you so much this is very very very helpful. Can I do all three of those at once?