My goose keeps laying soft shell eggs

[wendigo]

She laid around 10 normal eggs at first and then became broody. After a few weeks she started laying again. First 3 eggs were normal and then the next 2 were soft shelled. She is lethargic the entire day with the soft egg, walks slowly, leans on her right leg and doesn't eat. She goes back to normal after the soft egg comes out.

Right now she has these symptoms. I also noticed that saliva is dripping from her beak. It's a bit sticky and yellowish.

I already give them calcium. What else can I do?

 

[RURU]

Maybe put her in some warm water to see if that pull the maybe a broken egg is in her and she needs some help getting it out... Also an antibiotic maybe she has an infection. I am no expert at this so just suggestions. Hopefully other that have had these problems will chime in here soon...

 

[The goose girl]

What kind of calcium do you give her? Does she have free access to oyster shell, egg shell, or the like?

If not, do that. She needs an incredible amount of calcium to be able to turn out a ginormous egg every second day. Egg shell is made almost entirely out of calcium, and it counts for about 10% of the weight of the egg. My goose eats from the oyster shell bowl several times a day when she's laying. Just elaborating in case you didn't know.

If she's already getting enough calcium/shell, there's unfortunately not a lot you can do, except keep an eye on her if she appears egg bound.

My late goose, Keld, laid a lot of shellless eggs, about one in every three eggs. She showed the same symptoms you described: lethargic, slow, no appetite. She did have access to all the oyster shell she could gobble up, and I even tried baking oyster shell treats for her. It didn't help. Something must have been wrong with her "egg producing system", and she died from an ovary infection due to a huge shellless egg stuck high up in her body.

 

[nichkojr7]

Needs calcium


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