Egg bound goose, no avian vet can see her today!

[Miss Lydia]

I am so sorry, maybe all your doing will start to work. It's so nice to at least have your nursing background to fall back on. Do you know how old she is, and has she been laying regular before now? No poops doesn't sound good at all. I was very disappointed that there wasn't more in my book about problems like this. .I'll keep looking also and see if I can find anything else that might be of help. Hang in there.....Kim another thing you can give is 5 to 7 cc of liquid calcium along with the metacam. Keep me updated please.

 

[Kim65]

I don't have liquid calcium, but I have Tums, and gave her one dissolved in water.

The metacam seems to be working, she's more perky and drank some water. Stuck her bill in the food but didn't eat. She looks a little brighter anyway.

What she needs is an xray to see if this is even the issue, and not something else. Last year the vet said she had a heart murmur. That vet is the one who isn't in this week

Miss Lydia, I am very touched by your researching for me. Thank you very much. I've been reading a lot, too, and have looked and looked and about all I can do, I've done. I can't feel an egg through her abdomen or feel a hard egg in her oviduct. So I can't try and gently massage it down ward, or extract it.

I rescued her last year. A local gal had her and her "husband", but the gander was killed by a coyote. WHen I got out to pick her up, she could barely walk. This was in June, so just past laying season. She was looking rough. The previous owner told me she had a period of time where "she couldn't walk at all". I took her to my vet and her xrays were fine, that's where I got the metacam. She limped for a few more weeks, and then got along fine.

She's always been more clumsy and slow than my other two geese. She is truly a waddler. So I'm flying in the dark here with some ideas. Still going to give the Pen G injection just in case.

 

[Kim65]

OK, she just had a pretty massive poo

And is standing up calling for Petey (the gander).

A half hour ago, she was listless and bleary, just sitting there panting with no energy. Hmmm.

 

[Kim65]

Ummm . . . now she's preening and chewing on my hair. Sick geese do not preen. Was she CONSTIPATED?? The poop was large sized, but not hard.

 

[Miss Lydia]

wouldn't that be wonderful if that was all it was! Lets hope, if you decide to take her to the vet, please post so we'll know how she is doing. I'll be thinking about you both. Listen I am so wrapped up in my animals, they are my life, just knowing others feel the same way is a blessing to me. Let me hear, Thanks, Trish

 

[Kim65]

So she's eaten and drank a bit, and pooped a little more too. She acted "normal" for about two hours, and then I saw her start to breathe a little harder, got that "I don't feel good" look in her eyes.

I gave her another dose of Tums, and an hour later, she's perked up, holding her head up, talking, chewing my clothes.

Good grief, she's calcium deficient. The thing is with calcium is you have to have it in balance with phosphorus, and I don't have any phosphorus laying around my medicine cabinet. Or Vitamin D. She needs blood drawn to determine what the issue is.

She was weak and a big mess last laying season, which I got her right after it was over. I think she had this before. And she'll probably have it again and again unless I treat her or have her spayed (they don't have spaying down very well in birds, unfortunately).

So after the vet visit I'll update. She must be critically low, and each time I give her Tums it bumps her up closer to normal but this can't go on without causing her damage.

 

[Kim65]

Yep, there she goes. Standing up and grooming and preening like mad. An hour ago she was panting and miserable. Poor baby. Now to look for calcium supplements and do some research on that . . .

 

[redhen]

Poor thing...
How are you getting the Tums in her?

 

[Kim65]

They crush up in water easily, then use a liquid oral syringe and squirt them down her bill (against her will of course)

 

[crtrlovr]

any update?