Help. Whats wrong with my goose??

[akhomegrown86]

Hello,
I have a gosling that hatched in and incubator about 2 1/2 days ago. He/she doesn't seem to be doing so well. I have only done this one other time two su.wrs ago and those two goslings seem to walk and eat and drink.per normal with in 24 hours. However, this gosling is still not standing properly and doesn't want to eat. It has drank water and it kinda pushed itself around on its chest. Almost like it can't lift its chest enough or isn't strong enough. I really don't wanna lose this gosling, but I'm worried. And everytime i put it with the baby chicks that hatched at the same time the chics just stand on the goose. It also seems to just wanna sleep. I totally get how exhausting it is hatching and such but everything about this gosling is opposite of the two I hatched two years ago.

 

[akhomegrown86]

Oh man lots of mistakes in that so.... not in and incubator - in a incubator* not two su.wrs - two summers*

 

[Goosebaby]

Don’t worry about the spelling, I’m a chronic abuser of grammar and spelling so you’re in good company here.

Goslings and ducklings can be born with vitamin deficiencies, if you can find a good b vitamin complex in liquid to put in their water that may resolve it if it’s a niacin deficiency. Tablets will work also if they dissolve in water.
A vitamin E deficiency is the second most common cause so if you can get that as well it might help.
I’m not sure where you are but save-a-chick electrolytes is a good brand to use as a multivitamin.

If those don’t work the gosling may have a birth defect, something wrong internally unfortunatly, hopefully they recover soon.

 

[akhomegrown86]

Don’t worry about the spelling, I’m a chronic abuser of grammar and spelling so you’re in good company here.

Goslings and ducklings can be born with vitamin deficiencies, if you can find a good b vitamin complex in liquid to put in their water that may resolve it if it’s a niacin deficiency. Tablets will work also if they dissolve in water.
A vitamin E deficiency is the second most common cause so if you can get that as well it might help.
I’m not sure where you are but save-a-chick electrolytes is a good brand to use as a multivitamin.

If those don’t work the gosling may have a birth defect, something wrong internally unfortunatly, hopefully they recover soon.

Is there any at home remedies. I live in rural Alaska and somethings just aren't easy to find on the shelf here.

 

[akhomegrown86]

Don’t worry about the spelling, I’m a chronic abuser of grammar and spelling so you’re in good company here.

Goslings and ducklings can be born with vitamin deficiencies, if you can find a good b vitamin complex in liquid to put in their water that may resolve it if it’s a niacin deficiency. Tablets will work also if they dissolve in water.
A vitamin E deficiency is the second most common cause so if you can get that as well it might help.
I’m not sure where you are but save-a-chick electrolytes is a good brand to use as a multivitamin.

If those don’t work the gosling may have a birth defect, something wrong internally unfortunatly, hopefully they recover soon.

Can it drink Gatorade powerade or pedialyte

 

[Ebony Rose]

You can use human vitamin supplements.

 

[Goosebaby]

Gatorade and pedialyte don’t look like they’re great sources of niacin if they have any at all, Powerade has niacin (B-3) so it’s the best out of the three, human vitamins would be the best.

 

[Goosebaby]

The main Things to look for on ingredient lists are
B3 also called niacin
Vitamin E

Anything that also has B1 and B6 are great too.

 

[akhomegrown86]

Thank you so much!

 

[gosherd]

at about 2 weeks goslings bones will start being supportive of their increasing body weight. If the hip sockets are not fully formed by then, the femur will slip and the weight of the birds body will not be supported by bones, but basically be "hanging" from soft tissue. Which is extremely painful for the gosling, who will continue to try to stand and walk to keep up with the flock. Or if its in a group of goslings with the others.


Ive raised geese for years, 400 at a time and have never seen this get better. I put them down.

What happens is a cycle that makes it worse. The gosling will stop walking because its so painful. It will get dehydrated and hungry from not being able to forage while its young body is continuing to grow. Obviously the malformation of the hip socket will stay the same as the bird grows, increasing its pain and decreasing its ability to get around until its the perfect wave of not enough nutrition, dehydration, increased pain, unable to keep up with the flock or other goslings, so will eventually have attacks by the other healthy goslings and die after along period of painful suffering.

I once kept one of these goslings and raised it and bathed it, it was a pet. It lived in a sling in a box. It lasted almost a year. But it is a cruelty really, as a goose's primary life includes being able to flap its huge wings, while standing and stretching and preening its entire body as well as obviously huge amounts of walking and swimming and diving and foraging and living within a flock.

Since then I have humanely killed them. Its very hard, but I wont allow my animals to suffer so terribly. And these goslings do suffer from immense pain from this issue.