HELP! My 2 month old Touloose goose has droppy wings!

[flaming007]

I have had droopy wings with my goslings also. Just cut back the protien and tape them if its really bad but they can easily grow out of it if helped out before they get to big.

 

[imanerd]

Oh my, those wings look severe. I've never seen that in any of my geese. They just had a little trouble keeping their wingtips crossed over their backs/tails, but the wings never hung down under their bodies like in this picture. How old is the gosling? Is it me, or does it look kind of skinny?

"She" is about 10 weeks. We bought another gosling (African) and four ducklings at the same time and none of them have wing problems. Even before the wing issue we thought that something may be wrong with her because she is always the last to follow her flock...it almost seems like she has a hearing or vision problem. We affectionately call her Deegee (DG = dumb goose).

Should I tape her wings?

 

[The goose girl]

I don't know if taping would help.

I'm no expert (please chime in, experts), but to me she looks underweight/malnutritioned. Have you tried weighing her - and the African too, for comparison, if they're roughly the same age? She may have accidentally swallowed something that blocks or impairs her digestion.

I once found a piece of metal wire inside a goose's gizzard. The wire had penetrated the gizzard, and it must have been very painful for her to eat. She was somewhat smaller than the other goose I had back then, but I had no clue why until they were butchered.

One of my friends bought a goose for Christmas from a farm. The goose was really skinny and underweight (it was supposed to be fully grown, but it weighed only 7 pounds). When she removed the innards, she found a whole plastic bag in the crop. No wonder it was skinny.

This is what my goose looked like at 10-11 weeks:


She weighed about 10 pounds back then.

 

[imanerd]

I don't know if taping would help.

I'm no expert (please chime in, experts), but to me she looks underweight/malnutritioned. Have you tried weighing her - and the African too, for comparison, if they're roughly the same age? She may have accidentally swallowed something that blocks or impairs her digestion.

I once found a piece of metal wire inside a goose's gizzard. The wire had penetrated the gizzard, and it must have been very painful for her to eat. She was somewhat smaller than the other goose I had back then, but I had no clue why until they were butchered.

One of my friends bought a goose for Christmas from a farm. The goose was really skinny and underweight (it was supposed to be fully grown, but it weighed only 7 pounds). When she removed the innards, she found a whole plastic bag in the crop. No wonder it was skinny.

This is what my goose looked like at 10-11 weeks:


She weighed about 10 pounds back then.

Your goose does look much healthier than mine. My two geese are the same age but shouldn't the African weigh more than the Chinese? My bird has a little tuft on her head so she could be something else. I'll try to get a weight later and some more pictures. She actually seems to be holding her wings up better this morning.

 

[imanerd]

Both geese weigh about 4-5 pounds. Here's another picture:

 

[imanerd]

One more...

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Sadly that goose pictured is severely under weight. The lack in nutrition is adding to the wing issues going on.

What are you feeding the goslings?
How are they housed?
How long have you had them?

 

[The goose girl]

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If both geese are underweight, it's unlikely to be "hardware disease".

Also, she doesn't look at all Chinese. Maybe a tufted Roman?

 

[BayGoose]

I agree, looks like a tufted roman. It looks very underweight. Do you have a qualified poultry vet nearby? I never seen a goose as skinny as that one. Poor thing. Hope you can fix him/her right up.

 

[imanerd]

Just posting an update... The white goose has totally grown into her wings so no more droopy problem! And she has gotten so fat that she has rolls of fat deposits between her legs. To answer earlier questions the two geese are housed in an 8x12 enclosure with four runner ducks at night and free range during the day. The enclosure is attached to the chicken coop and was meant to be a run but now we keep the hatch closed so the birds don't bother each other. They have a few acres of grass to forage during the day and are fed a big bowl of Purina Flock Raiser each evening when they're put up. They normally have some food left in the morning that the chickens finish off. We also give them tons of scraps. Watermelon is their favorite...I chop it to bits for them, including the skin. They also eat a little cracked corn that I throw in the grass for the chickens and wild birds.

Oh and she eats an occasional feather when a chicken gets too close.

I do agree that she's a probably a roman tufted or mix, not the white Chinese she was supposed to be. Makes no difference to me though