Puffy Feathers

[AGeese]

So I'm starting to notice a puffiness with my trio's feathers. I'm not for sure, but think it could correlate to feeding them in their pen after they're in for the night ..onset of Angel Wing?

They're free range on pasture during the day I just didn't want to pull food while they were young and haven't really taken it away yet. In fact I just started upping their food a bit after attempting to compensate for any lack of nutrients that might cause wobble; which I noticed briefly a couple occasions in one of my goslings. It's so infrequent and rare that I might just be over analyzing it. However there is definitely something up with the feathers.

So I think it's time to pull the food when I put them in for the night.

I'm seeing fluffed coats, frizzled ends, and otherwise healthy looking feathers poking out here and there.

If it's Angel Wing I should have time to stop the onset by reducing their caloric intake I had previously upped. Tonight instead of filling their bowl with pellets, I tossed them a couple handfuls of grass and left it at that. They've been eating outside all day in the field.

 

[DobieLover]

Where did you get the goslings?
Could they be Sebastopol mixes?

 

[AGeese]

Meyer and MPC. They had smooth coats up until this week. You can see the difference in my flock album. But I would much prefer that to be the case than something negative.

I'm pretty sure my largest Embden has some grey goose, probably Toulouse in her.

My Roman must have some other white goose admixture since his bill and feet are not pink, he's also just as large, but waiting to see how they mature out over the next year.

 

[AGeese]

Just an update, my neighbor who has two sisters to one of my Embdens is seeing the same thing. A week before we started seeing feathers everywhere. Since I've never reared goslings I'm guessing this is just a growth phase (I hope)

 

[JRies]

Really dosnt look like angel wing whch appens at the tip of the wing and usually starts and is notisible when they first start to feather in. .

 

[Iain Utah]

Agree the picture looks like sebbies, but it sounds like your birds are just molting. Nothing to worry about.

 

[AGeese]

Thanks you're probably right as before all this started I was getting a yard full of feathers. So the frizzy ends, and odd feathers are much reduced now.

Their coats aren't as smooth as they've been still a little puffed, but the neighbor also reports a yard full of feathers.

 

[JRies]

The people that live around me always have a yard of feathers. Its windy here but well the culprits are my geese. Someone is always molting and geese pull there own down while there grooming which is 1/2 there day. I blame it on the old cotton wood trees down the road.

 

[AGeese]

Guess I have to mow a little more regularly. I'll find out what my neighbor is feeding theirs too. Before I controlled the food I couldn't stop the geese from taking from the chickens and vice versa.

 

[JRies]

Guess I have to mow a little more regularly. I'll find out what my neighbor is feeding theirs too. Before I controlled the food I couldn't stop the geese from taking from the chickens and vice versa.

Just remeber that feathers are great for soil great nesting matural for wild birds. You just feeding the universe. Or plant a cotton wood tree and blame it.