Help! Gosling with hard crop won't move

[Kelsie2290]

Sorry about your gosling not making it, hope the rest of her hatchmates are OK and you are able to figure out what was wrong with her.

 

[Starfire669]

Thank you. I suspect it was medicated feed and a niacin defiency together. The feed store didn't know their supplier no longer sells unmedicated turkey feed. The 1st bag I bought was fine, the next 2 were not. I returned the unopened bag and they switched it for the only nonmedicated feed they have left, a layer crumble. So I'm looking for a different feed store to purchase their feed at.
I also got brewers yeast and have started adding it to their water. Hopefully this will prevent this from happening again.

 

[gander007]

Starfire669 I am so sorry and being niacin sounds about right ....

If you could boil up some water and make some hard boiled egg's
to serve to the other baby's you have, remove the shell and mash
up the egg real good and feed them one to two egg's a day for a
week as this has everything your little ones need for a healthy
body and I wish you all a healthy flock

 

[Starfire669]

I have some eggs cooling now. They don't seem to be affected but I don't want to lose another baby so I'm doing everything I can to keep them healthy. My kids are distraught over the loss of the gosling, and so am I.