What’s wrong with my Gander?

[Lover duck duck]

My 2 year old gander seems to be having a long molting. The feathers around his ear holes are thin and the hole looks dark on his left side. I am also concerned a little because he seems a little off balance compared to how he has been in the past. He also seems to be in a mood here lately. Should I really be concerned and take him to a vet or is this part of a ganders molting. See pictures attached:

 

[Goosebaby]

This is concerning, molting can be rough but that looks like his body isn’t coping with the strain of shedding and regrowing. Being off balance is a big red flag.

He ther has a underling illness or he isn’t getting the right nutrition, what feed is he on?

 

[Lover duck duck]

This is concerning, molting can be rough but that looks like his body isn’t coping with the strain of shedding and regrowing. Being off balance is a big red flag.

He ther has a underling illness or he isn’t getting the right nutrition, what feed is he on?

He is on Nutrena All Flock but I will be changing here soon to the Flock Raiser. The girls seem to be doing fine and they are starting to do some molting, well at least one is starting to molt. We tried giving him some nutridrench but it doesn’t seem to be helping him.

 

[Goosebaby]

Nutrena all flock is a good brand, he should be getting enough from it, so then he must have some underlying sickness, Candida, a bacterial infection in the upper digestive tract, or parasites can cause absobtion problems, another issue could be a pancreatic or liver problem, though that would be more uncommon. Pancreatitis isn’t studied in birds, I have one gander who has chronic pancreatitis and he’s what my vet called “a mystery” because there’s next to no information about it or treating it other than an old article I once found out of Australia.
What do his droppings look like?

 

[Goosebaby]

Also I wanted to ask, how long has his wobblyness been going on?

 

[Lover duck duck]

Nutrena all flock is a good brand, he should be getting enough from it, so then he must have some underlying sickness, Candida, a bacterial infection in the upper digestive tract, or parasites can cause absobtion problems, another issue could be a pancreatic or liver problem, though that would be more uncommon. Pancreatitis isn’t studied in birds, I have one gander who has chronic pancreatitis and he’s what my vet called “a mystery” because there’s next to no information about it or treating it other than an old article I once found out of Australia.
What do his droppings look like?

My husband is the one that’s with him all the time since he basically had him in the house for the first year of his life with him in the office room where he works out of. He says his poop is normally brown. One of the girls hatched babies but somehow we found them dead we managed to save two of them out of 6 that hatched cause we caught them in time. But again I go out there to change their water around 4pm after feeding horses and I never see him stumble but again my husband is the one that sits out there with them in the mornings and evenings. He doesn’t like me because I am the one that actually has to grab him to check him all the time such as his feet or something, etc. because my husband and doesn’t want him to get mad at him

 

[Goosebaby]

My husband is the one that’s with him all the time since he basically had him in the house for the first year of his life with him in the office room where he works out of. He says his poop is normally brown. One of the girls hatched babies but somehow we found them dead we managed to save two of them out of 6 that hatched cause we caught them in time. But again I go out there to change their water around 4pm after feeding horses and I never see him stumble but again my husband is the one that sits out there with them in the mornings and evenings. He doesn’t like me because I am the one that actually has to grab him to check him all the time such as his feet or something, etc. because my husband and doesn’t want him to get mad at him

That’s not surprising that only your husband has seen him stumble then, birds hide sickness until they can’t anymore, and it’s pretty dire at that point, they only show their symptoms to those they completely trust before that.

Goose droppings normally look like little brown or green logs with a white cap
Like this

Every few droppings they’ll produce what’s called a cacal poo which is pretty much a pile of dark green or dark brown pudding that smells horrendous, it’s normal.
If they’re eating a lot of watery foods like cucumber, fruit, or melons or they’ve been drinking a lot of water on a hot day the droppings can be really wet runny puddles.
If the droppings are consistently runny for days it can be a sign of GI upset, if there’s undigested food it could be because of worms, coccidia, or an infection.
If they’re black it’s bleeding in the upper gi, red if it’s bleeding in the lower gi, neon green if it’s lead poisoning or emaciation.

The white part is urates, which should always be white or creamy/off white. If theyRe yellow or green it can indicate a severe issue with the kidneys or liver.

 

[Lover duck duck]

That’s not surprising that only your husband has seen him stumble then, birds hide sickness until they can’t anymore, and it’s pretty dire at that point, they only show their symptoms to those they completely trust before that.

Goose droppings normally look like little brown or green logs with a white cap
Like thisView attachment 2738486

Every few droppings they’ll produce what’s called a cacal poo which is pretty much a pile of dark green or dark brown pudding that smells horrendous, it’s normal.
If they’re eating a lot of watery foods like cucumber, fruit, or melons or they’ve been drinking a lot of water on a hot day the droppings can be really wet runny puddles.
If the droppings are consistently runny for days it can be a sign of GI upset, if there’s undigested food it could be because of worms, coccidia, or an infection.
If they’re black it’s bleeding in the upper gi, red if it’s bleeding in the lower gi, neon green if it’s lead poisoning or emaciation.

The white part is urates, which should always be white or creamy/off white. If theyRe yellow or green it can indicate a severe issue with the kidneys or liver.

I just asked him and he said yes his and the girls poop look normal. Sometimes is really watery when they drink a lot of water when the humidity and temperature get really high here in central florida. He did mention to me that one of the girls this morning pooped a mint green with the white. Is that bad?

 

[Goosebaby]

I just asked him and he said yes his and the girls poop look normal. Sometimes is really watery when they drink a lot of water when the humidity and temperature get really high here in central florida. He did mention to me that one of the girls this morning pooped a mint green with the white. Is that bad?

Not necessrily bad.

 

[Lover duck duck]

Not necessrily bad.

So could it be she ate something that made her poop that way? We have an aviary vet but she’s only there on fridays. Do you think we should take him to the vet? My husband loooves that gander, I would hate for something g to happen to him. He is just 2 years old.