Should I be concerned?

[The goose girl]

I'm hoping so much your Natasha pulls through.

Her trouble standing and walking could be from pain and/or an infection of her abdomen.

According to my vet, warm baths are really good. They help relieve the pain and lets her use her strength to pass the egg(s). Also her weight won't squish her body down. The baths should be hand warm, like for a baby.

If she has developed an infection and is running a fever, she'll feel unusually warm - especially her bill will feel hotter than usual.

I lost my precious goose Keld last summer due to egg binding. It was her last egg of the season that caused it, and since she had started molting I thought she was through laying. The egg was very, very large and stuck high up in her oviduct, so I only first noticed when she stopped eating altogether due to infection. By that time the egg had been stuck for almost three weeks, but she had been acting her normal happy self. The vet operated, but due to Keld's infection and her severe weight loss I lost her after five weeks of fighting for her life.

Since your Natasha is already having all these symptoms, my guess would be that her egg is stuck much further down the oviduct and that greatly improves her chances of laying it.

 

[Going Bhonkers]

I'm hoping so much your Natasha pulls through.

X 2

 

[Miss Lydia]

Hows Natasha doing this morning?

 

[Haunted55]

I've been wondering the same thing.

 

[squirrelbug]

Me too ...

 

[Iain Utah]

Me three......

 

[RURU]

Me too 4 x

 

[flockman]

Antibiotics, warm baths and calcium are not helping. She is getting worse. I have been trying to massage, but it is not helping. I am afraid I may have to put her down. I will keep trying to help her for a while yet.

 

[Haunted55]

Antibiotics, warm baths and calcium are not helping. She is getting worse. I have been trying to massage, but it is not helping. I am afraid I may have to put her down. I will keep trying to help her for a while yet.

http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2012/07/chicken-egg-binding-causes-symptoms.html?m=1 Scroll down until you get to the drawing of the chicken that shows the egg duct. From right in between her legs and back. Can you feel anything there? Are you putting her in water deep enough so that she is floating? Standing won't do it, she has to be floating to take some of the pressure off of her insides. What dose of the Duramycin did you give her? You may hav already thought about this yourself but let me ask just in case. If you have to put her down, do you plan on using her for the table? Awful question right? I am sorry but if you are thinking along those lines you really don't want the antibiotic in her. If, like me, you wouldn't even consider that, then I say go for broke and up the dosing on the antibiotic. If you went with the dosing for the 400mg, up it to the 800mg mix. You have nothing to lose right now and everything to gain. As far as I know she could also have an asprin mixed in water. This would help with pain and fever. Unfortunately, it's a race now and not being there I can't 'see'.

 

[Haunted55]

I'm hoping so much your Natasha pulls through.

Her trouble standing and walking could be from pain and/or an infection of her abdomen.

According to my vet, warm baths are really good. They help relieve the pain and lets her use her strength to pass the egg(s). Also her weight won't squish her body down. The baths should be hand warm, like for a baby.

If she has developed an infection and is running a fever, she'll feel unusually warm - especially her bill will feel hotter than usual.

I lost my precious goose Keld last summer due to egg binding. It was her last egg of the season that caused it, and since she had started molting I thought she was through laying. The egg was very, very large and stuck high up in her oviduct, so I only first noticed when she stopped eating altogether due to infection. By that time the egg had been stuck for almost three weeks, but she had been acting her normal happy self. The vet operated, but due to Keld's infection and her severe weight loss I lost her after five weeks of fighting for her life.

Since your Natasha is already having all these symptoms, my guess would be that her egg is stuck much further down the oviduct and that greatly improves her chances of laying it.

Goose Girl, I am so sorry you lost her. I know the care you give your birds from reading your posts on BYC. Sometimes, even with the best of care, we lose them. It's an awful thing to deal with. Again, I am so very sorry.