My goose is choking on a piece of bread

[hayley3]

I have no idea how to help her...she is salivating alot.

 

[hayley3]

Okay...whew , she seems okay now but she was drooling heavily so I knew she was in trouble...
I normally throw homemade bread to the chickens and since the new ducks ran over too, the goose decided she was going to eat some.
I read on the internet before I posted my question but found nothing to help a goose that was choking.
So for the future if anyone knows, please let me know. It's scary when you dont' know how to help them.

 

[NatJ]

Offer a bucket of water, so she can have a drink and soften up the bread?
Look the other way until she solves her own problem?

I have no personal experience with geese, just with chickens and with reading about geese, so someone else might show up with better advice.

 

[hayley3]

She had a bucket of water and was drinking, drooling, drinking but it didn't seem to be helping.

 

[NatJ]

Obviously something worked--maybe it took several minutes of drinking to soften up the bread so it could go down, or maybe she would have just forced down anyway. Sometimes helping does help, and sometimes it makes matters worse--but I do not know how to help a goose, and I do not know how to recognize when helping is needed.

 

[hayley3]

It was fresh,homemade soft bread...so good thing I guess. Lesson learned, make sure when you give the chickens bread, stand between the bread and the goose.