How to fix Angel Wing

We have a African goose at school, sweetest guy on the planet, but he has it in both wings... is there any way to treat it?

He is an adult, and it does seem to bother him quite a bit, and the other bachalor creatures in the pen (A muscovy male and a Patagonian Cavy male) are always getting hit with them or trying to bite them.

What should I do?

My Ag. Teacher thinks it's a show quality.... (Which I know it's not -_-) and I want to try and stop it or somehow get rid of it...

it's help the poor guy out alot.
 
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Wondering what to do about this just seemed to start. About 7 week old chinese gosling can't seem to hold wings correctly. Any thoughts.
 
With young ducks, as their wing feathers start to come in, it seems like their wing muscles take a while to strengthen . . . wondering if this drooping is just part of that normal process. I am a duck person, not a goose person, but they may have similar development.
 
I have a gosling that is just beginning to develop angel wing. He or she is about a month old now but the wing feathers haven't developed yet. When is the best time to wrap it up? Now? Do I wait for feathers to form?
 
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I have a gosling that is just beginning to develop angel wing. He or she is about a month old now but the wing feathers haven't developed yet. When is the best time to wrap it up? Now? Do I wait for feathers to form?

I have read the earlier the better. Have you seen the thread on "How We Wrap Angel Wing?"
 
Thank you. I just checked that thread out. I'm going to wrap it up in a week or so. She will certainly still be growing then and the wing feathers will be a little more developed. Theres really not much to wrap without them.
 
How old do ducklings have to be when u can start wrapping their wings because I'm suspecting my mallard duckling (3 weeks old) has angel wings as their is a slight upward tilt in the wing tip and developing feathers.
 
Can someone tell me exactly where, anatomy wise, angel wing occurs? I ask this because I have a duck I acquired as an adult who has it.

I have treated it successfully in various ducklings and it always seemed like it was thefeather twisted, not the bone...but I havent really looked at it that closely, usually too busy trying to get the duckling into the corrective sleeve with minimum fuss...

Anyway my adult girl with angel wing is moulting and right now, her wing feathers are gone and new ones just growing in. So right now, she has no visible signs of angel wing, and, as I did last year, I can't help but wonder whether if I put a corrective sleeve on her now if it might fix her angel wing at least till next moult...?
Still I guess if angel wing were a defect in the feather rather than the bone, then you would expect it to recur at moult with at least some of the ducks who got it as ducklings, and clearly that doesn't happen....

So I am assuming the reason nothing anywhere mentions fixing angel wing in an adult at moulting time, is because the deformity is in the bone, not the wing feather? But wondering if anyone can point me to some reliable reputable info on this mainly so I can stop being tempted to wrap my adult girl each summer moult, lol
 
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since posting this I have learned that this is from lacking something in their diet. so I ad oats to their food and so far so good, the wrap did nothing.
 

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