PLEASE HELP GOOSE HAD A FIT &DIED!!

[Cencor]

HI EVERYONE
ive just been to my allotment where my geese live. I have two geese and a gamder the girls are laying. My fabourite goose just went into a different nest box went in a couple of circles (i thought shewas nesting but then she started gasping) i lifted the.lid both her wings came upand her head flopped and she died. This all took literally two three mimutes. There was nothing im her throat an her vent all clean were absoloutly devastated there our pets more than birds doesanyone have any ideas please she had been acting fine swimming in the pond

 

[Iain Utah]

I'm very sorry for your loss! I do not know what happened to your goose, but it sounds just awful.

 

[Cencor]

Thank you i cant believe it i got eggs from her this morning and someone was biuying them icant bear to sell them weve had her since a chick and shes only young totally shocked

 

[Iain Utah]

By all means, do not sell them then. The buyer can wait and get eggs next week from your other goose. Do you have an incubator?

 

[Cencor]

Yes thankfully but never invubated goose eggs better get researching dont suppose you have any advice

 

[RURU]

HI EVERYONE
ive just been to my allotment where my geese live. I have two geese and a gamder the girls are laying. My fabourite goose just went into a different nest box went in a couple of circles (i thought shewas nesting but then she started gasping) i lifted the.lid both her wings came upand her head flopped and she died. This all took literally two three mimutes. There was nothing im her throat an her vent all clean were absoloutly devastated there our pets more than birds doesanyone have any ideas please she had been acting fine swimming in the pond

I am so sorry to hear your goose up and died right in front of you. I have an idea of what it might have been. When geese lay eggs they use the calcium from their bones to make the eggs and that has to be replenished and if it is not the goose will die from lack of calcium.
So I suggest you put oyster shell out and I have a new trick where I give shelled nut mixture because it is a form of calcium. I put some in their feed for them. It seems to help my girls.
It is a mixture I get from walmart in the bird feed section called patio, porch and deck mix. It has peanuts, pumpkin, sunflower and pastico all shelled nuts in it. I also use the nut and berry mix for them...

 

[Cencor]

Hi there on layers pellets mash (that has oyster shell) they also get a mixed corn that has sunflower seeds in it do you think they could still be lacking

 

[Iain Utah]

Here is the byc guide for hatching geese:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/491013/goose-incubation-hatching-guide-completed

I keep a pile of crushed oyster shell out for my geese to eat free choice. If they are picky, I offer then crushed egg shells instead as I have not met a goose yet that didn't love crushed eggshells.

 

[Cencor]

Funny you put that i put some out today an boiledsome chicken eggs they really enjoyed it thanks for that

 

[seminolewind]

All my chickens and geese get horse sweet feed (all oats) instead of scratch as a treat. I get a quart of the sweetfeed, put a big handful in of BOSS and flax, a few tablespoons of nutritional yeast, and a handful of oyster shell. The bag of oyster shell I get has a lot of crumble to it, and it all sticks well to the sweetfeed. This does give them all much more calcium than self choice.

I hear a lot about birds having seizures and dying. But I have to say that I think they die and then look like they're having a fit, but it's just the flapping around they do when they die (nerves).