Injured Goslings - What To Do?

[Snoopy Kim]

We had six Embden goslings hatched naturally and in the last week, we have lost two through injury with another one also injured. They are just over two weeks old and are very healthy and happy.
The first two injured ones had no signs of injury, but they couldn't walk or hold their head up and so we assumed that maybe they had been trodden on accidentally, or attacked by one of the adult geese - we have 18 of them. We took them and put them in the incubator to give them some warmth and peace, but they died within an hour. This one we have now is a bit more awake and can walk a little bit, but again there are no outward signs of injury (in terms of scrapes etc.). I found it on the nest. Is it likely that the mother is accidentally sitting on them and squashing them? She is also starting to leave them to roam around on their own more (not within sight of each other) and almost seems to have forgotten about them, which I guess is part of letting them grow up, but I am wondering if I should fence them off for a few weeks so that they have a better chance of staying alive, or will that be interferring with nature?

 

[sourland]

I'd try adding some niacin and vitamin supplements to their feed.

 

[GEESES Peanut Butter Cup]

We had six Embden goslings hatched naturally and in the last week, we have lost two through injury with another one also injured. They are just over two weeks old and are very healthy and happy.
The first two injured ones had no signs of injury, but they couldn't walk or hold their head up and so we assumed that maybe they had been trodden on accidentally, or attacked by one of the adult geese - we have 18 of them. We took them and put them in the incubator to give them some warmth and peace, but they died within an hour. This one we have now is a bit more awake and can walk a little bit, but again there are no outward signs of injury (in terms of scrapes etc.). I found it on the nest. Is it likely that the mother is accidentally sitting on them and squashing them? She is also starting to leave them to roam around on their own more (not within sight of each other) and almost seems to have forgotten about them, which I guess is part of letting them grow up, but I am wondering if I should fence them off for a few weeks so that they have a better chance of staying alive, or will that be interferring with nature?

How's the weather and temperature? Goslings' temperature need is different from adult geese's.