phyona1
In the Brooder
- May 9, 2018
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Hi I'm new to these forums so I am hoping people can help. We are in the North of England in the UK and have several chickens and some geese.
The geese are Embden geese, we hatched them out this time last year and have a mix of males and females. We have 16 of them in total. One of them has developed sores on her foot. She does not pick at them or seem bothered. No other goose has anything like it on their feet. They are quite aggressive towards each other at the moment, what with it being breeding season. They all look in a bad way with feathers missing etc where they grab each other. Could it be down to stress? She has a bit of a skeletal look to her feathers too. We give them brewers yeast in their wheat every day and they graze a large field of grass every day. The field has not had any type of waterfowl of chickens on it for many years and we have only been grazing the geese on it for the last year. I will try to add a pic!
Many thanks
The geese are Embden geese, we hatched them out this time last year and have a mix of males and females. We have 16 of them in total. One of them has developed sores on her foot. She does not pick at them or seem bothered. No other goose has anything like it on their feet. They are quite aggressive towards each other at the moment, what with it being breeding season. They all look in a bad way with feathers missing etc where they grab each other. Could it be down to stress? She has a bit of a skeletal look to her feathers too. We give them brewers yeast in their wheat every day and they graze a large field of grass every day. The field has not had any type of waterfowl of chickens on it for many years and we have only been grazing the geese on it for the last year. I will try to add a pic!
Many thanks