Help my sebbys.

[CassyGurl]

I bought 5 Sebastopol goslings over a week ago they’ve been doing good eating drinking running around but they had pasty butt I got it cleaned up all was well…they were a week old then..so just over 2 weeks old today 1 was acting lethargic/week I separated it from the other 4…went to get some food maybe 20 minutes when I got home that one was dead along with 2 of the others. Now these 2 are acting the same..and I keep cleaning pasty butts. They are under a producers pride heat plate..I tried an egg yolk for my remaining 2 they are drinking it. I’m a little upset cuz they were so expensive and all of a sudden 3 are dead. How can I help my remaining 2?

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

My guess is that they are too hot. Goslings can keep their heat pretty well, pasty butt is a good indicator that I'm right.
What else can you tell us about their feed, water, bedding, enclosure?

 

[CassyGurl]

My guess is that they are too hot. Goslings can keep their heat pretty well, pasty butt is a good indicator that I'm right.
What else can you tell us about their feed, water, bedding, enclosure?

Kalmbach feed..they have water they can dip heads in. And I’m using the pine flakes from tsc and I have them in a big tank so they can get out from under the heat plate.

 

[Goosebaby]

If you have them on Kalmbach’s 20% flock maker that’s alright but if they’re on the chick feed or the flock maintainer the protein percentage is too low.

 

[CassyGurl]

If you have them on Kalmbach’s 20% flock maker that’s alright but if they’re on the chick feed or the flock maintainer the protein percentage is too low.

Feeding duck goose food like I did my others. It’s got pics of full grown ducks & geese as well as ducklings &goslings. It also says feed from hatch through entire life cycle.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

Can you put a thermometer in the brooder and see what temp it says?

 

[JRies]

I would probably get them off the raw egg yolk. Wetting your flock raiser. Egg yolk is a good supplement for the first feeding or even for few days but it needs to be cooked preferably hard boiled. Baby birds come with salmonella from left over dander on there down so there a little tolerant but raw eggs could be adding to your problem.

 

[CassyGurl]

I would probably get them off the raw egg yolk. Wetting your flock raiser. Egg yolk is a good supplement for the first feeding or even for few days but it needs to be cooked preferably hard boiled. Baby birds come with salmonella from left over dander on there down so there a little tolerant but raw eggs could be adding to your problem.

That was the first one I gave them..I seen somewhere to give them yolk if lethargic. It did seem to help. But I just seen one having a fit it looked like a wry neck fit it was flinging its head around and around and went backwards into the corner after flipping back and me picking it up. And I never seen any of them do that till now. I don’t think that one’s gonna make it either .

 

[Goosebaby]

That was the first one I gave them..I seen somewhere to give them yolk if lethargic. It did seem to help. But I just seen one having a fit it looked like a wry neck fit it was flinging its head around and around and went backwards into the corner after flipping back and me picking it up. And I never seen any of them do that till now. I don’t think that one’s gonna make it either .

That sounds like a nutritional deficiency. I still don’t know exactly which bag of feed you’re feeding them but I would sugest switching them to a higher protein feed if they aren’t on it already and definitely getting them a liquid multivitamin like rooster booster poultry cell and liquid B complex.

Also get them out from under the brooder like @BirdsBeesTrees suggested. Goslings require warmth but not as much as chicks. If they’re trying to avoid the heat source they’re too hot.

 

[Goosebaby]

They might also be suffering symptoms of heat stress, if you have any electrolytes or pedialyte try giving it in their water.