- Oct 18, 2011
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I am new to this site and forum and have joined in the hope of getting some "first-hand" information from all the goose-lovers out there. We recently lost our beloved pet goose, Honk, to what the vet diagnosed as an oviduct infection.
We treated with Baytril antibiotic for 3 days but she slowly got weaker and died in my husband's arms on the third night. We are gutted, as is our gander, and her sibling/mate, Toot. We first noticed something wrong when she stopped laying after only two eggs, yet seemed not to be ill. We assumed she was opting for a "two egg season". After another 2 weeks or so she laid one more egg, then stopped again, but was still eating well, bathing, etc. However she seemed to rest a lot and about 3 days later stopped eating her normal amount of food and just stood on the nest as though waiting for something to happen. We suspected egg-binding and took her to our avian vet who said he couldn't feel an egg, but that she had an oviduct infection. He immediately injected her with Baytril and vitamin B, and gave us tablet antibiotics for the next 5 days. We are now so upset that we didn't take her to the vet immediately that the egg laying pattern was interrupted. She was 5 yrs old and has layed in the previous years without problems. She ate waterfowl food produced by our avian vet. The eggs are infertile, so we would usually let her sit for a month until she gave up, in order to not start her on more laying if we removed eggs.
Has anyone else had a goose that stopped in the middle of laying? Is this ever "normal" or always a sign of a problem? At the time I spent hours searching the internet for info on this phenomenon, but could find nothing other than egg-binding, which she didn't appear to have as she seemed healthy. Please, everybody, give me your experiences with this sort of problem - we would love to get Tootles another female next year when more goslings are ready, but I'm afraid of getting another female with the risk of laying-associated death. We don't feel we could go through such a heart-wrenching loss again.
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We treated with Baytril antibiotic for 3 days but she slowly got weaker and died in my husband's arms on the third night. We are gutted, as is our gander, and her sibling/mate, Toot. We first noticed something wrong when she stopped laying after only two eggs, yet seemed not to be ill. We assumed she was opting for a "two egg season". After another 2 weeks or so she laid one more egg, then stopped again, but was still eating well, bathing, etc. However she seemed to rest a lot and about 3 days later stopped eating her normal amount of food and just stood on the nest as though waiting for something to happen. We suspected egg-binding and took her to our avian vet who said he couldn't feel an egg, but that she had an oviduct infection. He immediately injected her with Baytril and vitamin B, and gave us tablet antibiotics for the next 5 days. We are now so upset that we didn't take her to the vet immediately that the egg laying pattern was interrupted. She was 5 yrs old and has layed in the previous years without problems. She ate waterfowl food produced by our avian vet. The eggs are infertile, so we would usually let her sit for a month until she gave up, in order to not start her on more laying if we removed eggs.
Has anyone else had a goose that stopped in the middle of laying? Is this ever "normal" or always a sign of a problem? At the time I spent hours searching the internet for info on this phenomenon, but could find nothing other than egg-binding, which she didn't appear to have as she seemed healthy. Please, everybody, give me your experiences with this sort of problem - we would love to get Tootles another female next year when more goslings are ready, but I'm afraid of getting another female with the risk of laying-associated death. We don't feel we could go through such a heart-wrenching loss again.