Sick Gosling! Help!!

[Enchanted Sunrise Farms]

The dosage i read on this board for the epson salts is a teaspoon per cup. That seemed a bit high to me, so i used a couple of teaspoons in dish of water, which held about three cups.

On the ACV, i have read folks use anywhere from one teaspoon to a tablespoon per gallon of water. You want the natural ACV, the cloudy one. You can get it in the health food section of most grocery stores. The kind i have is Bragg. The purpose of the ACV is to cleanse and tone the stomach. My sister would take a teaspoon in warm water whenever she had an upset stomach, and it fixed her right up. i've used it with my chickens and ducks on occasion.

 

[littlenell1]

I hope your gosling is picking up. We had a couple of runner ducklings hatch that seemed to be having problems keeping up with the others with food etc. I made their crumb into a mush with some boiled-cooled water and added a little tree barks powder. I use that on our dogs when they have gut issues and it really helps. Otherwise I offered small amounts of honey mixed into rehydrate solution to keep them hydrated and give some energy. I have to say it is hard to syringe anything into a gosling/duckling! I ended up wearing quite a bit of it.

 

[Oneacre Homestead]

How is he? I would think that if he already has diarrhea you should not give a laxative but fluids with electrolytes, but I admit I am not an expert.

 

[ellenmartin]

Gosling doing fine now... so far. he took a bad turn but now seems to be coming around - watching him daily! Thanks for the helps!!!

 

[Miss Lydia]

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Great news!!!!

 

[New Dreamz]

I am new to raising geese myself, I had a week old baby i hatched out of the incubator go down on me last week, It was fine all day and then all the sudden it just got wobbly and lathargic. I walked away for a couple of min to go get a syringe to give her some fluids and she had already passed and was stiff as a board. Was amazed at how fast she went downhill. The other 2 are doing fine so far.

What is this ACV you are talking about? Sorry I'm new to all of this.

I know for the dogs and ourselves, if we get a case of the trots, i have acidopholis powder that i will mix in a glass of warm water and drink, or sprinkle it on food. That works very well. Also canned pumpkin works wonders and its all natural, straightens the dogs out the very next bowel movement. I would imagine it would be safe for the geese too.

As far as the bleach. 1part bleach to every 10parts water. Mist all contaminated areas, let dry and and all is good. This is what we have done and never a problem with any animals, even our parrots cages, and they seem to be sensitive to a lot of things and they put their mouths on everything!

I'm glad to see he is feeling better, hope it stays that way. What kind of gosling is he? Any pictures? Mine are roman tufteds and brown chinese. I have one egg that is getting ready to hatch, excited to see what kind that one is.

 

[Oneacre Homestead]

Wow that is great! How did you end up treating him?

 

[Oneacre Homestead]

Also thanks for the informative post New Dreamz!

 

[cracking up]

ACV is apple cider vinegar. I'm really glad the little thing is better. I'm sure he'll turn out to be worth the trouble.

 

[ellenmartin]

Dad said he looks like he's growing again - all in just 2 days! He had poo in his mouth and I think Pete or whoever was right that he might have gotten some in his respitory so I cleaned out his mouth - gave him vitamins and electrolytes for a day or so and made sure he ATE....... put his water by the food (which I think its critical for crossbeak anything) they need help.....

Then I woke up this morning and he had poo on him AGAIN!!!!!!! I think they need a bigger space - 2 parents and 4 goslings need more room I guess so I'm working on that today...