I put a gauze pad right over the wound and wrapped it pretty tight (but hopefully not tight enough to cut off the circulation to her foot) with vet wrap. Then, I stuck her whole foot and leg into a big bowl of ice water for a few minutes. It seems to have slowed because it is not overflowing the bandage, but I don't want to take off the bandage to check because I figure it will just start bleeding again.
I am just so darn mad at myself right now because this is all my fault. At night, my 4 pilgrim geese and the runner ducks sleep in a rolling broiler chicken tractor and they free-range during the day. In the evening I usually just go out and put a scoop of feed in their house and they all run in, but sometimes one or two of the geese don't go in. This usually leads to me letting everybody else back out of the tractor and just trying again and again until they all go in at once, but the last couple of time I have not had the patience and have just shut in the rest of the flock and then caught the stragglers by hand to put them in. They are pretty tame but don't like to be caught or handled, so it is kind of a goose rodeo but at least it is faster than trying to herd them in.
We were rounding up the last two geese and trying to get them cornered so I could grab them, when this one spooked and ran over to the side of the coop where I have all of the scrap wire and fencing and whatnot for coop building. I am guessing she cut her foot on some hardware cloth.
I didn't even notice until a few minutes later when I was bottle feeding one of my goat kids and saw that I had blood all over my arm but no cuts anywhere.
The wound itself is not large, but man, as soon as I cleaned the dirt off it went from a steady drip to a squirt of blood right through the air! I got it to stop spraying, but it still kept up a steady leak that made me wonder how much blood a goose can lose before it is in serious trouble.
