My gosling isn't eating very much

[Miss Lydia]

Geese rarely eat worms. She does need some chick grit to eat anything other than her chick starter. Try taking her outside in some nice yummy grass. It needs to be soft grass thin blades not thick, but even goslings are foragers and eating some grass and getting some fresh air an sunshine might help her get started on her feed. Just keep an eye on her and not let her get chilled. Or over heated if it very warm where you are. How old and how is her brooder set up?

You can also cut her up very small some soft grasses and try her inside her brooder if it's still cold where you are.

 

[Clucksworth12]

Hello! As long as you are feeding her the eight chick starter, the other thing I allow my goslings to do is forage. Geese are very hardy birds that can easily sustain themselves when they have access to pasture. But for goslings just an enclosed spot with some lush vegetation! And I'm not sure geese like worms as much as chickens.

 

[Miss Lydia]

My female Toulouse goose loves meal worms dried. My gander won't touch them and as for live worms they both stick their bills up in the air.

 

[Ruralhideaway]

Is her feed chick starter? She shouldn't get adult chicken laying food. If she's already eaten things that are hard to digest you can give her chick grit or some sod from an untreated lawn. She can find grit in that I think.

She looks really young. Heat is important so brooder set up would be helpful as Miss Lydia said.

 

[Goslinglover23]

I have a baby goose and she wont eat much. She ate a couple of worms this morning and then ate a little bit of chicken food. Is there anything I can do to make her eat more? She is alone we are getting a companion for her on Friday please let me know if there is anything I can do to help her.

Also how old and what's her heat source?

We think shes about 3 weeks old maybe 2 we found her on a construction job. Her heat source us a heat lamp my grandma raises parrots so we had that on hand. We will stop the worms see if that helps

 

[Goslinglover23]

Can you show us the food label?

I really think she shouldn't be eating worms. I'll tag help @Pyxis

I will try and get a pic from my grandmother im not home currently

 

[Goslinglover23]

She is only eating shredded zuchinie and apple so far. I now that is only supposed be 20 percent of her diet

 

[Miss Lydia]

She needs chick grit or she has no way of grinding these foods up and can get impacted crop.

 

[Goslinglover23]

She needs chick grit or she has no way of grinding these foods up and can get impacted crop.

We put the food in water and grind

Geese rarely eat worms. She does need some chick grit to eat anything other than her chick starter. Try taking her outside in some nice yummy grass. It needs to be soft grass thin blades not thick, but even goslings are foragers and eating some grass and getting some fresh air an sunshine might help her get started on her feed. Just keep an eye on her and not let her get chilled. Or over heated if it very warm where you are. How old and how is her brooder set up?

You can also cut her up very small some soft grasses and try her inside her brooder if it's still cold where you are.

Her broader is set up in my room it's a nice temp in there but she does have a heat lamp on one side if she gets to cold but she shouldn't since my room is not cold. She goes outside quite a bit also but i will let her forage more often

 

[Ruralhideaway]

If I had to guess I'd say she's a week old.

Likely a canada goose, assuming you have them there. Hard to tell from the pic. I would try to get good pics because if she is you have a bit of a problem. There are ridiculous federal laws about having them as pets. Basically you can't. I've raised several and never discovered a loophole in these laws. I tried. They wouldn't even let me apply for a permit.

Then again if she's a Canada goose, she shouldn't have been left behind by her parents, they are very attentive generally. So there could be a problem with her health.

Earth worms ironically can give birds worms so that's usually a poor baby food choice. Does she follow you? If she does you might have to crawl around in the grass picking at it to get her interested. If that works scatter some crumble in the grass and pick at that too. Another baby would help, even a duckling.