Sick Goose - Lethargic/Tired

[Goosebaby]

Knowing what’s wrong is half the battle and this is great news, hardware disease is nasty and can have long lasting effects. Poor girl though, I have a few picky eaters like that and it’s frustrating when they’ll literally starve themselves rather than eat.

I would suggest once she’s back to a healthy wait occasionally mixing other feeds with the one she likes to help her adjust to something that’s different incase you ever end up in a situation where the local feed stores don’t have the right feed in stock or there’s a bad batch. One summer all of the purina flock raiser “what my birds prefer” at every store in my area was contaminated with mold so I had to switch to nutrena. The weird thing about nutrena is sometimes my birds absolutely love it, other times they’ll go hungry too rather than eat it.

 

[Pumperkinz]

Knowing what’s wrong is half the battle and this is great news, hardware disease is nasty and can have long lasting effects. Poor girl though, I have a few picky eaters like that and it’s frustrating when they’ll literally starve themselves rather than eat.

I would suggest once she’s back to a healthy wait occasionally mixing other feeds with the one she likes to help her adjust to something that’s different incase you ever end up in a situation where the local feed stores don’t have the right feed in stock or there’s a bad batch. One summer all of the purina flock raiser “what my birds prefer” at every store in my area was contaminated with mold so I had to switch to nutrena. The weird thing about nutrena is sometimes my birds absolutely love it, other times they’ll go hungry too rather than eat it.

Yeah my first bird ever to do this.
On the x-ray you could see a little fat on her bottom but her keel was nothing. I knew something was off last night as when I picked her up she is super light. I think she weighed right under 5 lbs.

Yeah the vet gave some anti inflammatory pills too so I can toss in her water or if she will eat it i'll do it.

What's weird is as soon as they got her fluids + B-12 and I got some peas in her. Her beak color went from dull -> orange/pink and her feet have a lot more color to them.

Another positive is she is full on honking now which she hasn't in a week. So I think she's feeling a lot better. I'm going to just associate this with the vitamin deficiency and let it be. Hopefully I can get her at least to gain some weight inside for a few days and kalmbach comes in early next week so I can start her back on the mini pellets.

 

[Goosebaby]

Yeah my first bird ever to do this.
On the x-ray you could see a little fat on her bottom but her keel was nothing. I knew something was off last night as when I picked her up she is super light. I think she weighed right under 5 lbs.

Yeah the vet gave some anti inflammatory pills too so I can toss in her water or if she will eat it i'll do it.

What's weird is as soon as they got her fluids + B-12 and I got some peas in her. Her beak color went from dull -> orange/pink and her feet have a lot more color to them.

Another positive is she is full on honking now which she hasn't in a week. So I think she's feeling a lot better. I'm going to just associate this with the vitamin deficiency and let it be. Hopefully I can get her at least to gain some weight inside for a few days and kalmbach comes in early next week so I can start her back on the mini pellets.

Vitamin deficiencies can cause them to have no appetite which just compounds the issue and vitamin injections are the most efficient way of getting them what they need. Dietary vitamins are good but avian digestion is so rapid that a lot just goes right through them. The only problem with the injections is it takes two people to administer it safely for a goose unless the goose is too weak to fight back.