Hello Everyone,

It has been awhile since I have visited this group, and only now when I
have an emergency am I here; nevertheless, I have a very sick Toulouse
goose. Yesterday evening I noticed that she couldn't walk. I isolated
her to keep the drakes off of her (horny drakes don't care what species
they mount). She is not happy to be away from the others; and gets very
upset when I leave her alone.

She is drinking, won't eat poultry feed, but is eating fresh greens; the
last few days she and my gander have been loosing a lot of wing
feathers. I assumed they were molting. Her droppings are watery but
not too frequent. I don't know what to do. I called our vets office but
the new avian vet at the clinic won't be back in the office until
Wednesday (day after tomorrow). I put some vitamins and electrolyte mix
in all the poultries water hoping that might help.

One other thing..these are not production birds, they are my pets.

Thanks,

Nicholas

Hi, Nicholas!
Does she have any other symptoms, such as floppy head, runny nose,
etc.?
Was she eating poulty feed before this happened? Try tempting her
with a bit of cracked or rolled corn.
It's possible that you hit the nail on the head exactly in the
beginning; sometimes drakes "mob" females and cause lameness or
worse. Give her a few days to heal on her own if she is eating
greens. The more varied the greens the better.
Most birds heal well after mating lameness, though it takes a week or
two or three. Maybe it's time to thin the drakes.
Best of luck!

Kathleen
Straw Barry Fields Farm
Beefalo
Kentucky, USA

Hi, Nicholas!
Does she have any other symptoms, such as floppy head, runny nose,
etc.?
Was she eating poulty feed before this happened? Try tempting her
with a bit of cracked or rolled corn.
It's possible that you hit the nail on the head exactly in the
beginning; sometimes drakes "mob" females and cause lameness or
worse. Give her a few days to heal on her own if she is eating
greens. The more varied the greens the better.
Most birds heal well after mating lameness, though it takes a week or
two or three. Maybe it's time to thin the drakes.
Best of luck!

Kathleen
Straw Barry Fields Farm
Beefalo
Kentucky, USA

magnoli...@windstream.net wrote:

Hi, Nicholas!
Does she have any other symptoms, such as floppy head, runny nose,
etc.?
Was she eating poulty feed before this happened? Try tempting her
with a bit of cracked or rolled corn.
It's possible that you hit the nail on the head exactly in the
beginning; sometimes drakes "mob" females and cause lameness or
worse. Give her a few days to heal on her own if she is eating
greens. The more varied the greens the better.
Most birds heal well after mating lameness, though it takes a week or
two or three. Maybe it's time to thin the drakes.
Best of luck!

Kathleen
Straw Barry Fields Farm
Beefalo
Kentucky, USA

Thank You Kathleen, my goose is on the road to recovery and you were
correct about it being mating lameness. The over zealous drake is a
particularly fat Blue Swedish who just doesn't know when to quit. He is
also my daughters favorite drake whose name name happens to be Max. I
wonder if a Vet could neuter a drake to stop this behavior; similar to
caponizing a chicken.

Thanks Again,

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