Is this normal?

[dragonfly31573]

Well I have some ideas about possible variables connected to why this started.

Were you by any chance giving her medicated feed early on?

Some people have commented for years, how people are giving their animals hormones and hormone injected food early on in poultry and other things. Its possible this may have contributed to how it may be too young to be egg bound but still have that problem.

And for the food to have hormones in it, you wouldn't have to know about that for it to happen. In theory, a lot of places making lets say 'dog food' are ordering ingredients made by others, and they might not even know everything themselves about whats in ingredients they use.

So you can see why I don't necessarily go for medicated food. Medicated or hormoned....

People have always wanted bigger, meatier animals, which led to tampering.

Now I wouldn't raise any hell or talk to them about this. It'd be a waste of time.

But if you can at least realize how it happened, you'll be better off.

There's a lot of stuff in our food that we don't realize as humans.

Now just from the covid nonsense there are examples of how forces at work fight over the future of industries. 'You can't go outside, unless you are can, or you're special. You can't work, unless you can. You can't meet with groups of people, unless you can. You can't go to church, but you can go to the bar (lol)'. These kinds of conditions were created by one group making rules not to do certain things, and another creating backdoor exceptions.
An example, some places have rules against hormones in feed, but allow for 'feed additives'. Guess what's in feed additives...

Sounds silly right?

We basically go in circles with stuff like this.

Ya its all nuts but I did make sure it was non medicated food, I have been giving them a little brewers yeast sprinkled on as recommended but that is all other than some peas for treats occasionally.

 

[Goosebaby]

It is odd, she does look egg bound, she’s straining so much. I wonder if she could have an obstruction she’s straining to pass.

There’s a chance it could be respiratory. I had a gander with aspergillosis, I never saw him breathing that heavily but asper is insidious and attacks the body in different ways and sometimes you never know how they got it in the first place. I never saw mold in their area, always had dry bedding, none of the other geese or ducks ever had an issue, yet Thor got it somehow.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Hopefully you can get her in to see a vet. If she didn't eat peas yesterday to make her poop green she may have an infection.

 

[dragonfly31573]

I wonder if it would be much added stress on her to bring her in and separate her from Max for a few hours so I can see if she eats and or poops

 

[Miss Lydia]

That’s something you’ll just have to play by ear. Do you put food an water inside their coop?

 

[dragonfly31573]

I wonder if it would be much added stress on her to bring her in and separate her from Max for a few hours so I can see if she eats and or poops

*too much added stress

 

[dragonfly31573]

That’s something you’ll just have to play by ear. Do you put food an water inside their coop?

yes

 

[Miss Lydia]

Maybe bring her inside an see how that goes if she gets too stressed maybe you can bring Max in too? If that won’t work then hopefully she’ll eat an drink once you put them up

 

[Three Little Bunnies]

My girl duck started laying at 4 months, I guess it is possible for yours to be laying at 3...

 

[dragonfly31573]

Would it hurt to give her some calcium gluconate?