bigbillybagel
Chirping
Hi all,
So a little while ago I posted a Q about putting geese eggs with broody chickens to hatch, as my geese were forever bashing their eggs around in their house.
The positive news is that 2 goslings hatched to their surrogate chook mums, one was thriving (Barnaby) sadly the other died after a week despite my efforts (I think it struggled with the heat at the time tbh).
Barnaby steadily grew and was eating and drinking well, although he did have a falling out with the chicks, I think as he was forever chasing them around they ganged up on him so I removed him and his "mum" at the age of around a month.
The sad news is that despite looking as energetic and boisterous as usual in the morning and early afternoon yesterday, he started wobbling and sitting down a lot in the later part of the day - to the point where my wife and I had to pick him up and put him in his bed. It was really very sudden and I was shocked by how quickly he detriorated in the evening, and then this morning at 2am I went to check he was dead.
I am absolutely devastated as he was a real character, and I can't understand how he went downhill so quickly. I was wondering if he had got stung by a hornet, as there was one hanging around his drinking bath, or maybe he had eaten something that he shouldn't have?
I have read a few similar threads and a heart defect was mentioned as a possible problem in young goslings.
I'm truly devastated as I was really looking forward to him growing up into a fine goose
So a little while ago I posted a Q about putting geese eggs with broody chickens to hatch, as my geese were forever bashing their eggs around in their house.
The positive news is that 2 goslings hatched to their surrogate chook mums, one was thriving (Barnaby) sadly the other died after a week despite my efforts (I think it struggled with the heat at the time tbh).
Barnaby steadily grew and was eating and drinking well, although he did have a falling out with the chicks, I think as he was forever chasing them around they ganged up on him so I removed him and his "mum" at the age of around a month.
The sad news is that despite looking as energetic and boisterous as usual in the morning and early afternoon yesterday, he started wobbling and sitting down a lot in the later part of the day - to the point where my wife and I had to pick him up and put him in his bed. It was really very sudden and I was shocked by how quickly he detriorated in the evening, and then this morning at 2am I went to check he was dead.
I am absolutely devastated as he was a real character, and I can't understand how he went downhill so quickly. I was wondering if he had got stung by a hornet, as there was one hanging around his drinking bath, or maybe he had eaten something that he shouldn't have?
I have read a few similar threads and a heart defect was mentioned as a possible problem in young goslings.
I'm truly devastated as I was really looking forward to him growing up into a fine goose
