We only have 4 so this is very upsetting. I went out this morning and one gosling the 2nd that hatched a week ago is just standing around like a chicken does when it's sick. I let them out and it kept up with the others but when they stopped to pick grass or drink from their platter he just stood there. Kinda wobbly.
Wasn't like this yesterday at all. Want to catch this before it gets worse! He's not lively like others and something is definitely not right.
I got him out of the pen (parents didn't mind) and put him in a little box w/ paper towel to see what's coming out of him and it's 99% water with just a few little spots of solid material. He pooped like that earlier today too. Twice on the towel and some on my shirt. It's like lots of water coming out but just a little food in the poop and I mean like just enough to make the size of a pin.
I think he's still drinking but is not eating the mazzuri starter from the feeder with the others when they eat and not picking at grass.
Yesterday parents found some sand near chicken pen and they were showing goslings to dig in it and eat it, could have been that? or anything I guess they eat and pick at everything on the ground and I think he might have eaten something not good. I keep it all vacuumed up but parents eat cracked corn from big bowl and drop bits here and there - maybe he ate one of those, I don't know, could have been anything he picked up or got a hold of.....
ACV for goslings??? I have sav-a-chik packet - should I do that?
HELP!! He's going downhill since just this morning.... now just standing there wobbling and others bumping into him...
Wasn't like this yesterday at all. Want to catch this before it gets worse! He's not lively like others and something is definitely not right.
I got him out of the pen (parents didn't mind) and put him in a little box w/ paper towel to see what's coming out of him and it's 99% water with just a few little spots of solid material. He pooped like that earlier today too. Twice on the towel and some on my shirt. It's like lots of water coming out but just a little food in the poop and I mean like just enough to make the size of a pin.
I think he's still drinking but is not eating the mazzuri starter from the feeder with the others when they eat and not picking at grass.
Yesterday parents found some sand near chicken pen and they were showing goslings to dig in it and eat it, could have been that? or anything I guess they eat and pick at everything on the ground and I think he might have eaten something not good. I keep it all vacuumed up but parents eat cracked corn from big bowl and drop bits here and there - maybe he ate one of those, I don't know, could have been anything he picked up or got a hold of.....
ACV for goslings??? I have sav-a-chik packet - should I do that?
HELP!! He's going downhill since just this morning.... now just standing there wobbling and others bumping into him...
