How and how to treat diseases in goslings

Kira Stoletova

Farmers who want to breed and keep winged ones need to know what diseases can occur and how to treat goslings. Basically, diseases of goslings occur due to improper care. Many farmers do not maintain cleanliness in the poultry house or the required temperature.

At birth, birds do not have established immunity, and therefore goslings can be exposed to many viruses and infections. It is also important to feed the goslings with the right and high-quality food, their condition and disease resistance directly depend on this.

Diseases of little goslings can be of two types: infectious (which are transmitted from one bird to another) and non-infectious (due to poor care and nutrition).

Prevention from any diseases - timely care and care of livestock. It is very important to show the birds to the veterinarian even when nothing bothers them. So it will be possible to prevent the onset of the disease in time and deliver the recommended vaccinations.

The most common ailments include:

coccidiosis;
pasteurellosis;
enteritis;
baldness;
rickets;
colds;
cloacite;
goose gait or twine.

Let's consider each of them in more detail.

coccidiosis

First of all, coccidiosis affects the intestines and kidneys of goslings. Basically, the disease is typical for young animals under the age of 3 months. Birds may lag behind in development, be weak.

The symptoms of gosling disease are characteristic. Usually, with the manifestation of coccidiosis, there is no appetite, sometimes anemia appears. With this disease, birds can shiver, even if the air temperature outside is positive.

To accurately determine what disease little goslings have, you should pay attention to the color of their feces. With coccidiosis, there is an unnatural shade of feces, diarrhea, and there may also be mucus or even blood in the secretions. In this case, the diagnosis in almost 100% of cases revealed coccidiosis.

If some goslings get sick, they need to be transferred to a separate paddock. The fact is that if a bird is infected, bacteria that can infect healthy birds come out with its feces.

Also, a gosling can be diagnosed with such a disease if order is not observed in the house and unsanitary conditions are everywhere. The disease can also be observed when feeding poor-quality or spoiled food. The cause of infection can be dirty water, work equipment and clothing.

When working with a sick individual, precautions should be taken and all objects and premises should be disinfected. If the geese are already sick with coccidiosis, then the premises should be disinfected several times a day.

pasteurellosis

Pasteurellosis is a dangerous viral disease. Symptoms in goslings with this disease are different, it all depends on the stage of the course of the disease and the susceptibility of the bird. Basically, goslings have symptoms of pasteurellosis in the first time after infection. There may be diarrhea, discharge from the nasal cavity, weakness and lack of appetite. Due to the fact that the young do not eat, they lose weight, their general condition is weak.

The causes of pasteurellosis are not fully known. The infection can also get through infected individuals and equipment. If this happened in young or even diurnal goslings, individuals may fall on their backs from exhaustion. Treatment should be carried out as soon as the first signs of the disease are detected.

In the acute stage of pasteurellosis, treatment with folk remedies or antibiotics may not give the desired result.

Infectious diseases, including salmonellosis or coccidiosis, should be treated with antibiotics prescribed by a veterinarian. At home, self-medication is unacceptable, as this is a serious disease, and the infection must be eliminated from the body.

In complex therapy, you need to improve the diet and add more vitamin and active supplements to it to maintain immunity and vitality.

Baytril is considered the least dangerous of all antibiotics, which is very important for young animals. The medicine is produced in the form of a solution, it must be taken orally. Baytril is well absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract. The course of treatment on average lasts about 3-5 days. Baytril should not be used simultaneously with other antibiotics. It is not worth treating the livestock on its own with such a drug; it is recommended to invite a veterinarian for examination and further instructions.

Enteritis

Viral enteritis is mainly characteristic of newborn or monthly goslings. A chick can catch enteritis due to improper housing conditions, if the room is dirty, the water is contaminated with bacteria.

An infectious disease can also appear as a result of feeding poor-quality feed. The young animals have not yet fully formed the digestive system, and therefore the monthly chicks are vulnerable. In unsanitary conditions, adult goslings also get sick.
The first symptoms of disease in geese are similar to those of poisoning. Diarrhea, weakness, lack of appetite, and lethargy may occur.

Treatment of viral enteritis and examination of goslings should be carried out as soon as the first symptoms appear, even if only one sign appears. To be sure that this is enteritis, you should take the birds to the veterinarian for a correct diagnosis. The veterinarian can take an analysis and pinpoint the cause of the ailment. If enteritis is confirmed, treatment can be carried out at home.

Basically, to get rid of enteritis, it is enough that the goslings are given a slightly pinkish solution of potassium permanganate with water.

Why do charming goslings get enteritis? Mostly due to the negligence of farmers. You need to know what poultry farming is and how to deal with daily goslings, how to feed and maintain. In the first days of life at home, it is necessary to create a clean and warm room for the adaptation of young animals.

Baldness or sagging

In the first weeks after birth, birds are very vulnerable, and many farmers say that sometimes during this period of time, chicks lose their down. In a newborn, almost blind chick, the legs may part, and the entire back and other parts of the body may be left without fluff. Sometimes the fluff falls out so that even in the area of the head, eyes and neck there is not much of it at all, bald spots are visible in places.

The causes of baldness can be different. Basically, fluff falls out due to a poor diet and beriberi. The diet of goslings should be studied, perhaps their food lacks calcium. It is also required to observe individuals: some are so aggressive that they can pull out and pinch fluff from each other. Sometimes pooh-eating is the result of being kept in a cramped and stuffy room, where individuals go crazy and begin to pinch themselves and their fellows.

How to treat all goslings at home? First you need to identify aggressive behavior or shedding fluff. With the right diagnosis, you can easily cope with the disease. If the reasons are in a poor diet, you can give young animals eggshells or special supplements to restore the balance of all microelements in the body.

Prevention of such diseases should be carried out regularly. If the birds are healthy, but the fluff continues to fall out or the relatives pluck it, you need to let the goslings out for a walk more often and give more fresh greens in the summer. If you do not take action, then baldness can go all over the body, and the goslings will be completely left without fluff.

Rickets

Goose disease rickets occurs mainly where the birds move little, hardly walk, and they are deficient in vitamin D. The symptoms of gosling disease such as rickets are as follows: lack of appetite, weight loss, lethargy, brittle bones and a soft beak. All these symptoms indicate a vitamin deficiency in the body. It happens that individuals are so weak that they are not even able to stand up and move.

In the first days of life, it is very important to provide pets with proper care. Prevention of such a disease comes down to normalizing the mode of walking, rest and nutrition, as well as including foods with fish oil in the diet, you can give yeast and vitamin D products.

When it is sunny outside, it is imperative to let the birds out for a walk so that they can receive the necessary amount of sunlight. Ventilation should also be installed in the house so that there is fresh air in the room.

Colds

If the room is constantly drafty, the birds will often catch cold. Goslings may have snot, symptoms of bronchitis, cough. It happens that farmers do not monitor the temperature in the poultry house. If the gosling is frozen, the cause of the disease lies precisely in this.

If goslings have something like a cough, it is necessary to take tests, only in this case the veterinarian will prescribe the appropriate treatment. Treating all birds indiscriminately by any means may not be effective.

As a preventive measure, it is necessary to install a thermometer in the room and monitor the temperature. Newborn goslings should be kept on warm bedding, provided with clean drinking water and changed as needed. It is also important to ensure that there are no drafts in the house, otherwise the whole livestock may catch a cold. In order for the immunity of birds to be resistant to various viruses and weather changes, you can feed them with complex top dressings and vitamins. With a deficiency of various vitamins, goslings not only suffer from weakened immunity, vitamin B deficiency can cause paralysis.

Cloacite in birds

Cloacitis, or inflammation of the mucous membrane of the cloaca, can occur with a deficiency of vitamins A, E and D, as well as mineral feed. This disease of small geese is sometimes compared with hemorrhoids, it is also characteristic of ducklings. As a treatment, it is necessary to adjust the diet: add more green fresh food and carrots to it. On the street, you can build a feeder with a shell and give bone meal.

Treatment with water procedures and water walking helps well. If the inflammation is neglected, then pus may appear at the site of the cloaca. In this case, the cloaca is cleaned of secretions and lubricated with a 5-10% iodine solution. After treatment with iodine, zinc ointment should be applied to the mucous membrane of the cloaca. Veterinarians recommend penicillin and streptomycin. They are based on antibiotics and effectively cope with inflammation of the cloaca. Sometimes they use fat.

Goose walk or twine

Twine, or moving paws, can occur in newborn goslings. This happens because not always the birds can keep their legs in the right direction. Most often, in young animals, the paws move apart to the sides, creating the illusion of a twine, hence the name twine appeared. This disease can be seen already in diurnal birds.

Basically, splits occur due to the fact that the floor in the house is not suitable and the birds simply have their legs moving apart.

In order for the goslings to learn to stand and walk, it is necessary to make the right floor. If the surface is slippery, it must be sprinkled with sawdust. It is necessary to take care of the quality of the floor and its coverage even before the birth of the goslings. Also, many farmers do not pay due attention to those individuals that are kept after birth in an incubator. There, the walls and floor are made of smooth material or covered with a film that makes it impossible to walk and develop normally. Growing in an incubator with a slippery floor even for several days provokes the appearance of twines even in healthy day old goslings.

Twine also appears due to lack of food. The fact is that if you keep adults and small individuals together, sometimes the young simply do not get food, and the growing body must constantly receive a balanced diet. Twine can even be obtained due to the fact that adults peck at cubs, resulting in body deformation.
Be sure to monitor the behavior and maintenance of individuals and conduct timely monitoring of their health.