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I have a 6-year-old pet goose who spends a lot of time inside and who is part of the family. This year her egg-laying has been problematic.
I will describe her behavior and symptoms and maybe someone can tell me what might be going on and if there is anything that can help her.
Up until this cycle and her last, she has been fine, and her eggs have been normal. Today I have her confined with a pen around her egg box so I can keep an eye on her. She is not eating but is drinking.
Her diet consists of grass, all the fruits and veggies she wants, and rice crispy cereal (Don’t judge me. She refuses to eat pellets). She also has access to whatever she can find outside and a bucket of gravel and oyster shells inside. She also has her water bucket which has poultry vitamins, electrolytes, and probiotics.
Her last cycle started in the middle of January with several days of diarrhea, lethargy, and no appetite. Finally, she laid a soft-shelled egg and the rest were normal except for her next egg which was very bloody inside. I took her to her vet, and she was given anti-diarrhea medicine and a couple of kinds of antibiotics. It was a shorter than normal egg-lay with about 9 eggs. Following her 9 eggs, she brooded which is normal for her.
Her current cycle started a few days ago with lethargy and no appetite for a couple of days. Finally, a couple of evenings ago, she passed an intact egg that had no shell at all. But after passing the egg there was a white stringy thing hanging out of her. My plan was to call the vet the next day. But in the night, she passed the stringy thing and a second smaller egg. The second egg was intact and had no shell. Yesterday the vet gave her a probiotic for the diarrhea.
Her usual pattern is to go to her egg-laying box for normal labor before her egg comes but this time, she has no interest instead she just stands in the same place for hours. Today she is behaving the same as a few days ago – standing, not eating, squirting water periodically, and generally looking miserable.
Has anyone had experience with this and did your goose survive?
I will describe her behavior and symptoms and maybe someone can tell me what might be going on and if there is anything that can help her.
Up until this cycle and her last, she has been fine, and her eggs have been normal. Today I have her confined with a pen around her egg box so I can keep an eye on her. She is not eating but is drinking.
Her diet consists of grass, all the fruits and veggies she wants, and rice crispy cereal (Don’t judge me. She refuses to eat pellets). She also has access to whatever she can find outside and a bucket of gravel and oyster shells inside. She also has her water bucket which has poultry vitamins, electrolytes, and probiotics.
Her last cycle started in the middle of January with several days of diarrhea, lethargy, and no appetite. Finally, she laid a soft-shelled egg and the rest were normal except for her next egg which was very bloody inside. I took her to her vet, and she was given anti-diarrhea medicine and a couple of kinds of antibiotics. It was a shorter than normal egg-lay with about 9 eggs. Following her 9 eggs, she brooded which is normal for her.
Her current cycle started a few days ago with lethargy and no appetite for a couple of days. Finally, a couple of evenings ago, she passed an intact egg that had no shell at all. But after passing the egg there was a white stringy thing hanging out of her. My plan was to call the vet the next day. But in the night, she passed the stringy thing and a second smaller egg. The second egg was intact and had no shell. Yesterday the vet gave her a probiotic for the diarrhea.
Her usual pattern is to go to her egg-laying box for normal labor before her egg comes but this time, she has no interest instead she just stands in the same place for hours. Today she is behaving the same as a few days ago – standing, not eating, squirting water periodically, and generally looking miserable.
Has anyone had experience with this and did your goose survive?
