Sick Bird? Strange Egg & Not Wanting To Leave Coop

[sawilliams]

No idea how to go about treating the geese, due to the way they messily consume/bath in large quantities of water.

Maybe a direct method? I honestly don't know either I don't have geese

 

[Pyxis]

Oh! Questions on wormers!! So I think did the math on the wayzine and figured out need 3ml of solution in 12.5oz of water for my five birds all over six weeks old. Ok. They will go through that water quickly, so will keep adding water prolly 4oz at a time over the day.

But what about the geese? Does anyone ever worm their geese? I mean what is the point as they do nothing but eat dirt. If so, how on earth would you calculate water because who knows how much they take in and how much they bath with. Certainly they would have hard time even drinking from a few oz of water. They need a gallon or two to slosh in. So...guessing no one worms geese but thought would ask. Yes, will keep their water separate from the chickens while worming.

The other thing? Safeguard. Have not seen any safeguard labeled for chickens. Guessing using the stuff for dogs or pigs or whatnot. How much would I use on my 5 chickens? Is there a liquid version you add with water then? Or you crush up and mix? No idea why no one in U.S. can simply make a wormer for chickens. Saw one company in UK but they cannot ship it to U.S. That is another rant, lol.

I worm my geese. I use Safeguard. It's the liquid for goats that you use. Mine love bread, so I just put the correct dose on a piece of bread and hand it to them and they gobble it down. Easy

If you don't have a treat you can feed it to them on like that, then you'll need to catch them and administer it directly. You'll have to do the same for the chickens if you can't feed it to them on a treat, too.