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goosemaster
Egg
Joined: 24 Feb 2007
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Hi, my first post here, I was wondering if anyone could help me with this. I have 2 geese ( a male and a female) and a couple of weeks ago, I noticed that the male was having problems swallowing, and his face was swollen, and he had a lump under his chin, and his eyes looked bleary, he had just lost his spark. We took him to a vet, and he gave us some antibiotics, and liquid parafin, incase of congestion.
This didn't work, so we took him to a different vet who put a camera inside him, and X rayed him, and found nothing. He thought it might be zinc poisoning, so he gave him an injection for that, and he took a blood sample. When the results from the blood test came back, no trace of zince could be found, so it isn't zinc poisoning, but the vet said the blood was very fatty.
He gave us some antibiotics to give him, but these have proved so far unsuccessful. Does anyone know what my goose could be suffering from? |
Saturday February 24, 2007 5:55 pm |
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Fluffy Sue
Joined: 13 Jan 2005
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Hi there, welcome to fluffies.
I'm sorry to hear about your goose..  I don't know anything about geese, just that they're cute..
(What are their names by the way?)
Did you see avian vets? |
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Saturday February 24, 2007 7:11 pm |
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goosemaster
Egg
Joined: 24 Feb 2007
Posts: 6
Location: england |
The first vet we took him to was just an ordinary vet, but the second vet was an avian expert, and he couldn't work out whats wrong with him.
My geese don't have names lol, we were going to have them to eat but after a while they really grew on us. They make really good pets. |
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Sunday February 25, 2007 12:17 pm |
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shirin
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Joined: 27 Apr 2005
Posts: 7402
Location: Canada, Toronto |
Oh I'm so sorry that your goose isn't doing too well. I don't have any experience with geese either, but there is a lady here who has a goose/duck rescue, she might know what the problem is. I'm so surprised that the vets didn't find anything 
One thing I can think of, because one of my doves had the same symptoms, could it be that he might have a vitamin A difficiency? Because my dove had that, and she also had a swollen chin and had a hard time swallowing.. although that's something that an avian vet should recognize easily, so I don't know.
I wonder why vets are so quick to perscribe antibiotics when they don't even know what the illness is my vet did that too. |
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Sunday February 25, 2007 5:34 pm |
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goosemaster
Egg
Joined: 24 Feb 2007
Posts: 6
Location: england |
Thanks for the responses. I think it could be vitamin A defienency that he's suffering from, I checked the symptoms. I checked what foods are high in vitamin A, such as eggs, so I gave him 2 of those today, but I also bought some vitamin supplements, so i'll be giving him those in future instead of eggs, as they are quite fatty.
Thanks for the help. |
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Monday February 26, 2007 3:19 pm |
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Fluffy Sue
Joined: 13 Jan 2005
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Goosemaster.. I don't know about geese but do they also eat dandelion? It's quite high in betacaroten if I'm correct! (Pro vitamin A)
http://www.fluffies.org/en/flu......php?id=87 |
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Monday February 26, 2007 11:09 pm |
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shirin
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quote:
Originally posted by goosemaster
Thanks for the responses. I think it could be vitamin A defienency that he's suffering from, I checked the symptoms. I checked what foods are high in vitamin A, such as eggs, so I gave him 2 of those today, but I also bought some vitamin supplements, so i'll be giving him those in future instead of eggs, as they are quite fatty.
Thanks for the help.
Oh, hopefully it's just that! If so, it is easily treatable  Another thing you can do is add one drop of cod liver oil to his feed just once a week. That's very vaitamin A rich also |
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Monday February 26, 2007 11:13 pm |
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goosemaster
Egg
Joined: 24 Feb 2007
Posts: 6
Location: england |
The thing I forgot to mention is that for some reason, he hasn't been tipping his head back when he tries to drink/eat, so all of the feeding has to be done manually. |
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Tuesday February 27, 2007 7:25 pm |
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shirin
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Joined: 27 Apr 2005
Posts: 7402
Location: Canada, Toronto |
Hi goosemaster, how's your goose doing now? Has he been getting any better? He's been on my mind. I hope you've figured out what's wrong with him |
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Wednesday February 28, 2007 1:53 pm |
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goosemaster
Egg
Joined: 24 Feb 2007
Posts: 6
Location: england |
Well I'm starting to think he's not going to get any better from whatever's wrong with him- even though he's only been on vitamins for a day.
I'm going to carry on giving him the vitamins & anti biotics every day, and if that doesn't work, he might have to be put down.  |
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Wednesday February 28, 2007 11:18 pm |
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shirin
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Joined: 27 Apr 2005
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oh I'm sorry to hear that! I really hope he pulls through and you won't have to resort to that. It's obvious how much you love him |
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Thursday March 1, 2007 2:33 am |
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sentiels3
Experienced flier
Joined: 12 Oct 2005
Posts: 1312
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goosemaster, I am so sorry to hear of your goose's problem. I hope he does get better and that you don't have to put him down. Give him a fighting chance before making that decision. Do you have pics of your geese? Would love to see them. |
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Thursday March 1, 2007 7:10 am |
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goosemaster
Egg
Joined: 24 Feb 2007
Posts: 6
Location: england |
Well unfortunately, we had to have him put down today, as his condition was getting worse, he was making croaking noises when he was trying to breathe, and he kept on shaking saliva out of his mouth, he was very ill. |
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Saturday March 3, 2007 9:16 pm |
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shirin
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Joined: 27 Apr 2005
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Location: Canada, Toronto |
I'm very sorry for your loss. I know you loved him very much and did everything you could to make him better. May he rest in peace  |
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Saturday March 3, 2007 9:25 pm |
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