No she's not doing that. She will pick up a mouth full of bedding and throw it to the side of her, or throw it of to the front of her. If she's in the pen doing this she digs so far down under the bedding she gets into the dirt, then her nostrils are all full of dirt. I noticed today that now when she is in a setting position she is leaning back on her hocks with her feet pointing up. I am really scared of what is going on here. She spends a lot of time in the pools. Severe water issues or not they are going to have their pools. My husband is out of town and I feel so all alone. It's so confusing, she is so very alert, grooms, baths, drinks, I found a little bit of grass for her and she chowed on that as she does her lettuce, but she's not touching her food. I just don't know what else to do. And in closing you have a BEAUTIFUL baby there. Thank you for your concern.
Sounds like she´s nest-building, but doesn´t mean she´ll lay an egg. She´s old, of course, but she could have many more years ahead of her yet, so maybe the niacin will help, as she´s happy with the romaine which is rich in niacin, sounds like it´s helping a lot. The way she´s sitting could just be the discomfort she´s feeling.
MLyd´s got some good suggestions there. Of course, another way is you could dissolve niacin in a very small amount of water and float her ripped-up romaine lettuce in that, and then as she eats the small pieces, she´ll be taking in the niacin with the water. Greens are always the best food for geese, so if she´s eating her greens, that´s good news. Just need to build up the vitamins etc that she´s lacking. Sounds like you´re doing great so far.
I bought 2 geese recently, so scaredy-cat, won´t come anywhere near me. One of them can hardly move in the morning, just these 3 mornings now. I cannot get anywhere near her to medicate her. She takes off, wobbly legs or not. I imagine she´ll have to be really sick before I can get hold of her. So, thinking cap on... 2 days ago I fed all the other geese out of her reach, then put some food down for her nearby with Brewers Yeast mixed in. After a long wait, and amazingly no other geese stole her food, she went to it and picked out the corn and left everything else! OK, next day I tried a different tactic..I mixed up her food in a bowl, all chopped up and brewers yeast diluted in water, so it was impossible for her to separate it. She´s not used to the bowl, nor the chopped-up food, so it still didn´t work. So, I diluted Brewers Yeast in a bucket for all the geese to dring from, because it won´t harm any of them anyway, it´s good for them. They all drand it, ducks too, except the 2 new geese ! Today, a different tactic...I found an old bit of plastic marge pot that has been down there for ages since I had the tiny goslings, just never brought it back up, so she´s used to this...I put the mixed food in it, put it near her (she ran away, of course), then happily, without the other geese noticing, I managed to walk around at a distance, slowly herding her closer to the dish that she´s not frightened of....it worked. Goodness, these geese! So, now I´ll try what I did today again tomorrow.
So, just try different things until something works. I hope that was an interesting read for you!
I hope I can get the niacin into mine, and I hope yours is feeling a bit better today.
