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Sick geese in rice field. Any ideas why?
Posted on 12/7/25 at 1:21 pm
Posted on 12/7/25 at 1:21 pm
Have had a few odd incidents over last couple years of non shot geese in field. Geese that are confused and let you walk up on em. Son went this morning and reports dozens of snows in pond. Could walk up on em, won’t and just swim slowly away.
Anybody see this before? A little concerning. Thousands of geese around. Only one was a spec of around 30-40.
Anybody see this before? A little concerning. Thousands of geese around. Only one was a spec of around 30-40.
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Posted on 12/7/25 at 1:30 pm to tigerfoot
Avian flu. Seems like it happens around big bodies of snows most often.
Posted on 12/7/25 at 1:34 pm to TigerDog83
That’s what I was thinking. Kinda sucks. I just have never seen it.
Posted on 12/7/25 at 1:44 pm to tigerfoot
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Anybody see this before? A little concerning. Thousands of geese around. Only one was a spec of around 30-40.
Botulism.
Posted on 12/7/25 at 7:21 pm to tigerfoot
Avian cholera?
Posted on 12/8/25 at 2:17 am to tigerfoot
Sounds like avian flu. It was bad a few years ago.
Posted on 12/8/25 at 6:24 am to tigerfoot
I've always seen it to some degree on a field that has been holding a lot of geese. They'll leave behind a few sick birds in various stages of death. However I've never see it as prevalent as the last couple years. One of our fields in Arkansas had dozens and dozens of these goose zombies waddling around last week. Really had my dog confused
Posted on 12/8/25 at 6:24 am to tigerfoot
Dp
This post was edited on 12/8/25 at 6:25 am
Posted on 12/8/25 at 7:53 am to LSUballs
quote:good description
goose zombies
And the wife is pretty certain both boys are gonna keel over any minute. Has shown zero concern for me, in fact I caught her stuffing me a new feather pillow.
This post was edited on 12/8/25 at 7:55 am
Posted on 12/8/25 at 12:50 pm to tigerfoot
I think the answer is a combination of all of the above illnesses plus a couple that may have been wounded either by being shot, or crippled in the commotion of them all getting up to escape a predator.
If there are 40,000 geese using a field regularly something is going to be wrong with a few of them.
We picked one up last year that was alive in the ditch the night before the hunt when we set decoys, and was still there the next day around lunch time when we quit. It seemed perfectly fine except for any fear of humans. It was alert with it's head up looking around but let me walk right up to it and grab it by the neck.
We put him the pile for pics but didn't clean him.
If there are 40,000 geese using a field regularly something is going to be wrong with a few of them.
We picked one up last year that was alive in the ditch the night before the hunt when we set decoys, and was still there the next day around lunch time when we quit. It seemed perfectly fine except for any fear of humans. It was alert with it's head up looking around but let me walk right up to it and grab it by the neck.
We put him the pile for pics but didn't clean him.
Posted on 12/8/25 at 9:13 pm to tigerfoot
That’s the good ol avian flu. Few years ago in South Dakota for spring snow season there were fields with 100s like that. It’s quite the feat to see. Basically like drunk geese
ETA: they are perfectly safe for human consumption.
ETA: they are perfectly safe for human consumption.
This post was edited on 12/8/25 at 9:14 pm
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