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.

 

[Pumperkinz]

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.

Yeah much better to have the vet do the fluids + b shot. Especially now that she's gotten strength back. She gave me some pain meds too and it's helping her relax a bit.

She seems to be a bit more peppier. Still not wanting to walk around much today, but she did take a few steps with a little assist. I assume with giving her a buffet to let her choose what she wants.

She really hates this nutrena food batch. The other geese do not care at all. It's so strange, but chickens I've never had one starve themselves before. I've got kalmbach coming monday so should resolve the issues I hope. I also brought her outside for a few minutes withher boyfriend, and she seemed stressed/but happy to see them.

Thank you again for the help! (Vitamin deficiency is no joke) and now that I know Imma sit here and watch them more making sure everyone is eating, and keeping vitamins in the water.

Can you add any kind of supplement to their feed to help with making sure she's getting enough vitamins>?

 

[Pumperkinz]

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.

OH another side note. The doctor said no egg obstruction, but she did say she does seem to be coming into production age. I'm wondering if the non-eating + reaching sexual maturity and weather changes messed with her hardcore and may have just spiraled this into a bigger problem.

Do you think putting her in some shallow/warm water in the bath would help with her legs and build back some muscle strength? (Just wanting to keep her moving if possible).

 

[Goosebaby]

OH another side note. The doctor said no egg obstruction, but she did say she does seem to be coming into production age. I'm wondering if the non-eating + reaching sexual maturity and weather changes messed with her hardcore and may have just spiraled this into a bigger problem.

Do you think putting her in some shallow/warm water in the bath would help with her legs and build back some muscle strength? (Just wanting to keep her moving if possible).

Water therapy can help, just make sure she’s not in too long, birds with mobility issues can’t preen and dry off as well and they can get waterlogged and chilled easily.

There are various vitamin mixes you can add to water, rooster booster, poultry nutri drench, and producers pride vitamins & electrolytes are three I regularly use.