Okay, so as usual the bleeding heart within my soul has struck and I have found a goose, which appears to me to be a White Chinese female goose, in desperate need of aid.
Things to know first and what exactly I am looking for by posting here.
1.) Yes I know I need a vet, can't do that until I get my money next month. No one was going to do anything about her otherwise so trying something is better than trying nothing.
2.) I am looking for advice of what to do until then and/or alternate methods of treatment.
3.) Has anyone seen or treated something like this before
Like does this look more like a very bad infection or tumor?
Additional information:
- She drinks and nibbles at food.
- Appears to be a healthy weight. I felt her, have carried her and established she's not skinny.
- Responsive, hisses at my dog and rooster, gentle and nibbly to me. Her poop seems pretty normal and she tried to follow me and honked when I was out of sight. She also saw my gosling and wanted to be with it, she was trying to be motherly. But clearly, I'm not going to let her too close to my healthy birds like this.
- She was found trying to lay on some weird kind of group nest where several geese where vying for the eggs. (One of the reasons my guess is female aside from the actual knob being more goose-like)
- The mass: It is soft and squishy to touch, although her skin is stretched quite bad, clearly, and she's sniffly and I can hear her swallowing. (Fluids leaking through sinuses?)
- You can see the lower part of her eye on the mass side, looks clear, but I can't see the second eyelid. Mass between eye lids? Sinus cavity? Appears to be contained. No bumps anywhere else on her body.
I made many calls but because she is domestic, no rehabilitation place around here wants to help.
I've contacted one for farm animals but I've gotten no reply yet
She's very tame and if I am able to save her I will likely try to put her up for adoption. If not, I will keep her
although I wasn't expecting to have 3 geese, I already have 2.
If anyone wonders how the last rescue went, my rooster went from
From THIS ^ to THIS v
So even those really nasty cases have a chance.
Things to know first and what exactly I am looking for by posting here.
1.) Yes I know I need a vet, can't do that until I get my money next month. No one was going to do anything about her otherwise so trying something is better than trying nothing.
2.) I am looking for advice of what to do until then and/or alternate methods of treatment.
3.) Has anyone seen or treated something like this before
Like does this look more like a very bad infection or tumor?
Additional information:
- She drinks and nibbles at food.
- Appears to be a healthy weight. I felt her, have carried her and established she's not skinny.
- Responsive, hisses at my dog and rooster, gentle and nibbly to me. Her poop seems pretty normal and she tried to follow me and honked when I was out of sight. She also saw my gosling and wanted to be with it, she was trying to be motherly. But clearly, I'm not going to let her too close to my healthy birds like this.
- She was found trying to lay on some weird kind of group nest where several geese where vying for the eggs. (One of the reasons my guess is female aside from the actual knob being more goose-like)
- The mass: It is soft and squishy to touch, although her skin is stretched quite bad, clearly, and she's sniffly and I can hear her swallowing. (Fluids leaking through sinuses?)
- You can see the lower part of her eye on the mass side, looks clear, but I can't see the second eyelid. Mass between eye lids? Sinus cavity? Appears to be contained. No bumps anywhere else on her body.
I made many calls but because she is domestic, no rehabilitation place around here wants to help.
I've contacted one for farm animals but I've gotten no reply yet
She's very tame and if I am able to save her I will likely try to put her up for adoption. If not, I will keep her
although I wasn't expecting to have 3 geese, I already have 2.
If anyone wonders how the last rescue went, my rooster went from
From THIS ^ to THIS v
So even those really nasty cases have a chance.
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