If you know of a good vet that treats birds - and you are prepared to spend a bundle - then this would provide you with the best advice. In the meantime, my inexpert advice is that a four year old is not very heavy and the injury will probably heal on its own. Was your daughter wearing hard shoes and was the gosling on bedding (straw or wood shavings) or on a hard surface. That might make a difference. Can you detect any abnormal heat at the site of the injury, compared to the sound leg? Last year (to my shame) I stepped right on a day-old chick. I'm no lightweight and I was sure the poor thing was a goner. But a day or two later it was just fine. I assume that the deep bedding saved it from worse injury. In your place I would just keep it with its buddy in the brooder box and try to limit how far it has to go for food and water. Make sure that if it falls into the water dish it is not going to drown. I put stones in my water dishes as a precaution, just leaving enough room for the goslings to dip their heads. If you are using a heat lamp or other source of heat, make sure that the gosling can get under it and away from it. It's had a rough start: getting out of the shell, travelling to a new home, and then being stepped on. Let it rest as much as it needs to. Chances are good that with a few days rest and quiet, it will heal just fine on its own. Do reassure your daughter that accidents sometimes happen and that it is not her fault. If she is a calm child, let her help feed the goslings so that she feels part of "making it better", but if she is one of the excitable types, this might not be a good idea right now. I see from your Member Page that you are new to this Forum. Welcome! Are you new to geese as well? What breed are your babies? There are several goose enthusiasts who post here and if you read some of the previous threads, you will be amused and informed by our goose-stories. You can use the search feature to find goosey threads. Please post again to let us know how the gosling is doing. We always like to read the conclusion to a story and not be left hanging. ~ Maggie

I have to tell you a little story. My 15 yo granddaughter had a summer farm job. The farm raises their animals for food, chickens for the eggs, goats for meat and so on. That's how I ended up with 3 male goats!! This very young chicken ended up breaking a leg so the help took it and dropped it out in the field for the hawks and foxes, which they have done many times in the past, the only difference was my granddaughter now worked there! After it had been out there for the night she rescued it from the field and brought it home to her apartment (mom wasn't too happy). She nursed that thing, taped it's leg, which didn't help at all, for about 8 weeks, the leg stuck out like a sore thumb and it looked and walked like someone with a peg leg. The bone has fused so the hen can steady herself and scoots around with this straigt legs help. Anyway she is very happy, very active and living back at the farm She gets no special treatment unless my granddaughter is there. I have a small rescue and having a vet is a life saver, I have 3 vets one for the goats one for the birds and one for the dogs, cats and reptiles. If you take the responsibilty to raise them you should take the responsibility to keep the healthy. My husband and I work full time and sometimes I think its just for the animals. We are very careful not to take on more than we can afford or manage ourselfs. Sorry thats just how I feel. Clara, It sounds like you're doing all the right stuff especially the love stuff, I'll bet she will be fine.

How did you know it has an injured leg in the first place?! ______________ Angie Get free Zanussi user's manuals

I saw the butterfly out in my pool garden when I walked past my glass front patio doors from inside The house. It was trying to land on a bloom on one Of my tallest and most fully leaved out Lantana bushes. It was late afternoon,after four o'clock ,but the sun was Still up. The bushes circle the pool which is abt 75 to 80 Steps from the door. So I was in the middle of doing Something,and did not stop because I thought it was a Palamedes at first glance since I saw its topside. Later I did recall it looked a bit off for a Palamedes. The next day I went outside and saw the butterfly Was still there and that it was not a butterfly I had Seen in the yard before.Once it roofed it's wings And I saw all that yellow I got one of my guides And verified it to be a Giant. I went close to it then And saw that one side was fine,but the other side Had a good top wing but the bottom wing had been Cut half off as though the insect had got it caught Or it had been snapped off by a bird or something. I was easily able to catch it in my hands,as it seemed Weak. I took it inside and put it in a screen top tank To rest, but it died later that day. I went ahead and Mounted it for display with the group of insects that I have collected under similar circumstances(I do not Net and mount butterflies and dragonflies that I Provide habitat for and see on the road). The butterfly measured abt 5" across wing tip to Wing tip,and abt 3"long with wings spread; it's body Was abt 1 1/8" long. I was very impressed with its beauty,and hope I see Another one(more likely further south to Mobile Or Florida line). DD