possible misscariage ?

[popsmurf]

hi all, iv recently adopted a pair of goos (pat & peggy) from pets at home. iv read tonns of info on these amazing creatures and built a big cage for them. when i introduced the pair to the new cage peggy had no problem scaling the 4ft high walls but pat seemed far more cautios and had problems holding her own weight when coming down on the wire and subsiquently had a couple of small falls around 1ft, it has since come to light that she is almost definately pregnant as she is showing many of the symptoms, yesterday i noticed that she had something protruding from her privates, we watched her for a while and she pulled out what i can only describe as a white tubular piece of grissel and proceded to attempt to eat it, she left it alone so i took a closer look, i think it was a placenta as u could see the plug where it would have been attached and the other end of the sac had obviously been ruptured

i would really like to know if anyone has had any experience of this, seen afterbirth or knows if it is possible to miscary only part of a litter, presuming there are any more.

another case of dealing with somebody elses mistake

thanks pop

[buzz]

I'd get her to a vet, depending on how far along she was obviously relates to how much the baby had developed and if she was showing signs then it would seem to be fairly close to the birth date.

I don't know much but it would seem to make sense to me that if the baby is too big for reabsorption then its still inside her, which I'd imagine would end up being fatal.

[jackdaniels]

I would take her to the vets straight away in your case as if you could tell/ think she was pregnant she wouldn't have long left and the litter would have been pretty much developed.

I have seen when dogs only have one pup. Which is sometimes born still-born because it depends on having more pups to push each other out. Does this hapen to any other animals

[buzz]

most likely. I know that too few will sometimes not stimulate the mum enough to produce milk...

[jackdaniels]

I thought that effected the mother because she would be giving all the nutrition to her litter and none to herself

[buzz]

ooo, i'm talking about rodents, but I realise I never said the word rodent.

I have no idea on dogs.

its a bit off topic really but I was just saying that it might be possible to have a rodent pup that is still-born because of litter size as litter size it affects other areas such as milk.