My Eqyptian goose female is an angel wing :(

[Pidgey104]

well now i'm mad. I had the one pair seperated and My mom thinking she knows everything put the other hen with them, well they killed her. So I can stop my search for another male . I didnt get home fast enough.

 

[chickenzoo]

Oh no, that's horrible...... sorry you lost her.

 

[DrinkTheRainbow]

What is an angel wing?

 

[Pidgey104]

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Where one or both wings turn out and point away from the body

Kinda like my two muscovys on my website. The black one in the frist pic and the grey and the second pic

http://poultryheavenfarm.webs.com/geeseandducks.htm

 

[cabincrazyone]

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I'm a newbie and hadn't heard of angelwing, either. In your pix it looks like the flight feathers are growing out wrong. It that what it is? Or is there a deformity in the wing bones?

 

[BlacksheepCardigans]

It's an actual twist in the wing. It's ugly but as far as I know it's not genetic. It never occurs in wild ducks or geese, only in domestic, and it's from eating too much high-protein high-grain food. Ducks and geese are grass/green-eaters (and ducks will also eat fish and snails and so on), so when you feed them dry grains there are consequences.

 

[Pidgey104]

Like she said above.
I only ahve the two muscovys like that. I had them since they were babys about 8 years ago. I didnt know much about raiseing back then so they might have been on Chick Starter.

 

[DrinkTheRainbow]

Oh thanks. Aww that's sad... $135 dollars on her and 2 months of waiting and he gave you an angel wing? WELL HE IS EVIL!!!

Sorry about your loss though...

 

[annageckos]

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I have seen it in wild Canada geese before, but only two or three. I remember one real well, both her wings had it. I volunteered at a wildlife rehab center. We called her 'Angel' (yes I know it is very original)