Sick Goose?

[JRies]

Is that all stuff that goes in the water? I can't get her to take anything from my hand. She didn't even want the comfrey leaf but she ate it when I broke it up and let it float on the water.

There are a few ways to get vitamins in goosebaby is right took me a few times but the syringe is the best . And Iv done it without help. You can do it. I also sprout grains for my geese and feed on day 3 of sprouting the evening before I add all there suplements to the sprouts. Water with geese is also a play toy and grooming tool so you never know how much they got. Another trick is whole wheat in about a inch of water they love getting the wheat from the bottom of the pan and do digest some of the water.

 

[FoggyFowl1719]

Ok, so I just got back from Tractor supply. I got the Poultry cell but they didn't have the B complex. I got the Liquid B-12 with vitamin K as I figured it was better than nothing. Can I give them at the same time or should I wait 2 hours between like an herbal tincture?

 

[FoggyFowl1719]

It's kinda funny what Goosebaby said about the Poultry and avian vets. We live in a rural area and I'm usually the one everyone brings all their pets and birds to. I have saved Cotournix Quail who have had their entire scalps removed to the bone. I have saved the life of my neighbors black lab when his face swelled to the size of a basketball. I have delivered puppies by c section, and I have rehabilitated chickens and roosters with broken legs. So when there's something that I don't know about an animal, I research.

 

[JRies]

Ok, so I just got back from Tractor supply. I got the Poultry cell but they didn't have the B complex. I got the Liquid B-12 with vitamin K as I figured it was better than nothing. Can I give them at the same time or should I wait 2 hours between like an herbal tincture?

Poultry Cell has Niacin that is your B. Niacin is water soluble therefor what they dont use when they take it in the will release. With waterfowl they can handle more than land birds. I might wait between the 2 just so her body has time to absorb what she needs.

 

[JRies]

It's kinda funny what Goosebaby said about the Poultry and avian vets. We live in a rural area and I'm usually the one everyone brings all their pets and birds to. I have saved Cotournix Quail who have had their entire scalps removed to the bone. I have saved the life of my neighbors black lab when his face swelled to the size of a basketball. I have delivered puppies by c section, and I have rehabilitated chickens and roosters with broken legs. So when there's something that I don't know about an animal, I research.

Goosebaby helped me out this winter. Yep took a goose to the vet not just any vet but the Colorado state teaching hospital. Who were over 800 dollars of looks like bumble foot and might have a infection. There was no bumble foot and probably some kind of swelling. She couldnt walk or use her leg. She lived in my kitchen and bathtub for the winter. Then my gander got in a fight and got his hip dislocated. Had 2 living in my kitchen. Gave up on vets. So research is the way to go. And asking for help. By the way both mine made it for another season.

 

[FoggyFowl1719]

That's awesome. I will admit that there have been some that I simply could not save. In fact we lost our 5 month old Royal Palm named Jive Turkey just last week. We had an abundance of rain and his food went moldy which made him sick. I worked with him for 48 hours straight to get him to try and detox the bad stuff. All the while trying to force food and water down him because he wasn't eating or drinking on his own and was only getting more lethargic. In the end, he went and we all cried. But I know that I did everything I could possibly do at the time. A vet here in New Mexico would have charged me $250 just to bring him in so they could tell me he's going to die. I've already had that experience with my parakeets and my ChiPin. I've helped more animals make it out alive for free than these money hungry liars who claim to love animals.

 

[JRies]

That's awesome. I will admit that there have been some that I simply could not save. In fact we lost our 5 month old Royal Palm named Jive Turkey just last week. We had an abundance of rain and his food went moldy which made him sick. I worked with him for 48 hours straight to get him to try and detox the bad stuff. All the while trying to force food and water down him because he wasn't eating or drinking on his own and was only getting more lethargic. In the end, he went and we all cried. But I know that I did everything I could possibly do at the time. A vet here in New Mexico would have charged me $250 just to bring him in so they could tell me he's going to die. I've already had that experience with my parakeets and my ChiPin. I've helped more animals make it out alive for free than these money hungry liars who claim to love animals.

Totally get it. Have a 800 dollar goose who will always limp because her hip was displaced. so its a one year at a time for her. And hoping we can have the holidays before she moves back in. At lest she dost snore////
Most vets dont take the time to get there exotic training so a bird well they have very little idea I work with the state vet once a year for testing my birds for NPIP I get allot better answer's from her.
Iv found this website helpful but as my state vet said look under chickens also there isn't allot about geese specifically.
http://www.duckdvm.com/view/symptoms.php

 

[Goosebaby]

When I was a kid there were a lot of farm vets in my area, California is a huge agricultural producer so no real surprise there. But in the last decade most of the farm vets retired, vanished, or moved somewhere else, like South Africa, and were replaced by shiesters, complete incompetents, or people that are doing the best they can in a broken system.
The only decent vet I know of is 3 to 4 hours drive away but she’s in such demand it’s hard getting an appointment, so with emergencies I’m on my own.

Veterinary colleges don’t like giving grants to rural kids because they see them as a risk that probably won’t pay off, so the kids that would be rural farm vets never become them. People from the city typically don’t like the life of being a farm vet, the hours, pay, and lifestyle isnt appealing, and cats and dogs are easier than chickens, heifers, other farm animals. The rise of VCA and other Veterinary corporations taking business away from small private practices is the final straw. That’s why the age of the farm vet is gone, and we’re suffering for it.

Eventually this will impact the food chain, I guess the implications will become relevant when the cost of a steak or a dozen eggs becomes too costly for the average person.

 

[Goosebaby]

That's awesome. I will admit that there have been some that I simply could not save. In fact we lost our 5 month old Royal Palm named Jive Turkey just last week. We had an abundance of rain and his food went moldy which made him sick. I worked with him for 48 hours straight to get him to try and detox the bad stuff. All the while trying to force food and water down him because he wasn't eating or drinking on his own and was only getting more lethargic. In the end, he went and we all cried. But I know that I did everything I could possibly do at the time. A vet here in New Mexico would have charged me $250 just to bring him in so they could tell me he's going to die. I've already had that experience with my parakeets and my ChiPin. I've helped more animals make it out alive for free than these money hungry liars who claim to love animals.

I’m so sorry for your loss, you did all you could and that’s the honest truth. Fighting fungal infections in birds is one of the hardest illnesses to fight, and most birds don’t survive it, the drugs that kill the mold are incredibly toxic also, so they can do as much damage as the illness itself, you couldn’t have changed what happened.

Unfortunatly the only effective drugs that (so far) seem to have no known side effects are still in development so it could be years before they’re available.
Olorofim has been in development for awhile so it could be approved for public use by next year at the very very soonest, the other “Turbinmicin” won’t be available for some time.

For us that have lost birds to fungal infections it’s bittersweet, but it is nice to know that an actual safe cure is on the horizon.

 

[FoggyFowl1719]

When I was a kid there were a lot of farm vets in my area, California is a huge agricultural producer so no real surprise there. But in the last decade most of the farm vets retired, vanished, or moved somewhere else, like South Africa, and were replaced by shiesters, complete incompetents, or people that are doing the best they can in a broken system.
The only decent vet I know of is 3 to 4 hours drive away but she’s in such demand it’s hard getting an appointment, so with emergencies I’m on my own.

Veterinary colleges don’t like giving grants to rural kids because they see them as a risk that probably won’t pay off, so the kids that would be rural farm vets never become them. People from the city typically don’t like the life of being a farm vet, the hours, pay, and lifestyle isnt appealing, and cats and dogs are easier than chickens, heifers, other farm animals. The rise of VCA and other Veterinary corporations taking business away from small private practices is the final straw. That’s why the age of the farm vet is gone, and we’re suffering for it.

Eventually this will impact the food chain, I guess the implications will become relevant when the cost of a steak or a dozen eggs becomes too costly for the average person.

Absolutely agree. But don't you like being one of the ones with brains who will survive when the shelves either go empty again or sit there full because food is too expensive. Just wait until all these namby pamby spoiled kids realize you can't eat an IPhone. They'll start wishing they had spent that crapload of money on a worthwhile investment. But too many of them will starve to death when Meta crashes and they don't have anyone to tell them how to breathe. But there are more and more of us who are denying our youth these vices and teaching them how to live offline. I have seen a large uptick of small farms starting all over. Let us hope humanity can come out of the cyber age alive