So, I would not concentrate on the egg laying... I had a Chinese Brown Goose, Lucy, such a lovely goose, let her out of the pen on a Sunday morn, all was fine with the world. I had found that she had laid an egg later in the morn. Later on in the day, she was acting pecular, kind of lethargic. By the evening the world was NOT right. The next day I took her to my Avian Vet, on the other side of the county. They took her in, did an exam, which was inconclusive. She was given pain med's, and I left her there for x-rays later on. I was called 2 hours later, they told me she had "crashed". The next day they did a necropsy, and was told she had experienced a perforated bowel/intestines, possibly a week before. Long story short, her whole insides had turned septic, which had puzzeled me immensly. How could this be....? She had JUST laid an egg the day before, I was told that the "systems" are separate and it was not uncommon for something like this to happpen.She has lived in my back garden for over 2 yrs .. I have no dogs, no cows or any other animals that might have caused her injury. The CCTV footage shows that she was fine earlier this morning. Struggled to move after being in the sun on one spot for nearly an hour.
If you haven't yet read the thread......she had laid an egg this afternoon which confuses me more as she has no mate.
The big question is to I have her put down considering the injury?
I would concentrate on the shell Damage!
Not being there, In my opinion that poor creature got crushed, or attacked by a wild animal.