A Detailed Guide to Common Diseases of Wild Geese and Their Prevention and Treatment
The wild goose, also known as the greylag goose, is a large migratory bird in China, belonging to the national second-class protected animals. Wild geese have very thick feathers and highly developed breast muscles. Their meat is rich in protein, fat and other nutrients, making it a rather good nutritional health product today. Wild goose meat can dispel wind-cold and boost yang qi. The feathers also have good warmth retention and can be used as filling material for pillows, clothing and the like. However, during the breeding process, some diseases often occur. What diseases will occur? How should they be prevented and treated? Let's take a look below!
1. Gosling Plague
Symptoms: Gosling plague is an acute infectious disease caused by the gosling plague virus that occurs in goslings, mainly infecting the digestive tract of goslings. Goslings within three weeks of age are the most susceptible to the disease. After infection, goslings are listless and depressed, with a shrunken neck, difficulty walking, and they do not stay with the flock and often walk alone. Then they begin to have diarrhea, eat little or not at all, and in the later stage develop severe diarrhea, with feces containing turbid grayish-white or yellow bubbles. Before death, the neck twists and the whole body twitches continuously.
Prevention and treatment: After goslings are born, they should be vaccinated with the attenuated gosling plague vaccine. Serum prepared from adult geese can be injected into them for effective prevention. If goslings begin to show symptoms at only 3-5 days after birth, it means the incubator has already been contaminated. At this time, incubation in the incubator should be stopped immediately and thorough disinfection should be carried out, then incubation can continue.
2. Goose Influenza
Symptoms: Goose influenza, also known as exudative septicemia, is an infectious disease mainly caused by Shigella bacteria. This pathogen can spread and cause infection through contaminated feed and water, and can also infect through the respiratory tract. The incubation period of this disease is very short; symptoms appear within a few hours after infection. There is serous nasal discharge in the nasal cavity of the goose, rapid breathing with relatively loud sounds, and violent shaking of the head from time to time. In severe cases, both feet become paralyzed and the bird cannot stand normally, and it dies after a few days, with diarrhea appearing before death.
Prevention and treatment: After sick geese are found, they must be isolated immediately to prevent further infection of other geese, and dead geese must also be buried deep or burned immediately. Antibiotics or sulfonamide drugs can be used for treatment, twice a day, and the disease can basically be cured after about four days of continuous treatment.
3. Goose Egg Plague
Symptoms: Goose egg plague is an infectious disease mainly caused after female geese lay eggs, triggered by inflammation of the ovaries and oviducts of female geese. After the onset of the disease, the anus of the female goose has foul-smelling excrement, and the feces contain small pieces of protein and egg yolk. The bird does not eat or drink, and after 2-6 days it often becomes weak and dies due to lack of water.
Prevention and treatment: To treat goose egg plague, the growth of female geese must be ensured, and the feed and water must be disinfected to ensure they contain no contaminants. After the onset of the disease, give the geese oral furazolidone, at least 25 mg per goose, which can be mixed into the feed or water and given continuously for about three days, or drugs such as chloramphenicol can be injected into the muscle.
The above are the common diseases encountered in the process of raising wild geese. When raising wild geese, you must keep the goose house clean and hygienic, and disinfect the goose house regularly and on schedule. Control the feed and water of the wild geese well, and do not feed spoiled feed to the wild geese, as this is very likely to cause digestive tract or respiratory diseases in the wild geese, which may then be complicated by infectious diseases. Therefore, I hope everyone will manage the environmental hygiene of the goose house well and provide a good growing environment for the wild geese.