Honk or Something Else?

[3xhhheather]

So yesterday I thought I was hearing what could be a developing honk, but now I'm not so sure. Today her voice sounds raspy about 50% of the time, even pushing out like a loud raspy honk? She's still eating and drinking like crazy and has water bowls that are plenty deep, plus a clean brooder. It has been kind of chilly here (low 60s) and rainy, so I'm worried she caught something from when we went outside in a drizzle. Her food is Mazuri starter with oats to bring down protein and nutritional yeast mixed in (+ a sprinkle of kelp). She also has access to water + apple cider vinegar, and tons of fresh greens (kale + clover).

To add to it, I'm not 100% on the hatch date, I was told May 24th, but from her feather development, I'm wondering if she's at least 2 weeks older. Anyway, just a slightly worried goose mama, hoping it's just a honk and not something worse.

https://imgur.com/a/76Uz8mJ

https://imgur.com/a/D2naRYm

https://imgur.com/a/r8LZrdL

 

[The goose girl]

In the last two vids she's making the "whirr" sound that means she's tired, cold, and/or wants to snuggle. She doesn't sound wheezy to me, and as long as she wasn't wet for a long time and got to dry off and warm up afterwards, a little drizzle and cool weather shouldn't be able to harm her.

Hatch date May 24th seems right. Here's a video of my goose when she was 22 days old:

A week later she looked like this:

 

[3xhhheather]

Love love love that video, could watch her run around all day! Thank you for posting the comparison it makes me feel a lot better about the hatch date being correct.

I'm going to put little heater out in the room to bring the temp back up a bit, she has her sister to snuggle with but I don't want them to feel stressed by the lowered temps we're having and neither of them fit under their brooder anymore

 

[Goosebaby]

Beautiful! What breed is she?

 

[3xhhheather]

Beautiful! What breed is she?

She's a French Toulouse; her parents had pretty dark coloring, hoping she'll have that too!

 

[Leader Bee]

I thought that they were toulouse; My Norbert is 5 weeks old and i'm certain his voice started to break within the last 1-2 weeks, I have peeps mixed in with what sound like mini honks.

 

[3xhhheather]

That's what I'm hoping this is, but since they're my first lil ones everything that is "new" is scary lol

 

[Leader Bee]

Yeah, all new to me too, i'm in the same boat...it seems more obvious in the mornings when he is waking up and then goes back to peeps for a while once he has composed himself that I've not abandoned him after leaving him for the night