She has had a swollen abdomen for the last three days, yesterday I felt somethign hard and expected her to lay it then. She didn't and still hasn't done so. I just found her then, all sleepy looking and with her eyes half closed. I have put her in a hospital cage, covered in balnkets and with a lamp on. She has food and water and I'm taking her to the vet tomorrow morning. Nothing booked, I'm just gonna rock up there and hope she gets treated, I think it is considered an emergency. Anyway thanks for listening. :budgiedance:

Oh no, i hope she's not. Put her in the bathroom and get the room really steamy, i've heard that can help them pass the egg. Let us know how you go at the vet.

yep, I'd agree with Bea. I had a hen that looked like it had an egg bum and the hospital cage worked a treat... I made mine steamy by putting the perspex front on and a shallow dish of water.

 

Good luck.

 

 

Feathers.

The warmth will help. I have had hens take up to two days to pass the egg, but in a hospital cage. I also gave calcivet by beak...a drop.. administered twice a day until the egg passed and then a course of it afterwards. Holidays next and didn't go back to the breeding cage.

No she is naughty, I never intended on breeding her ever and now with her current problems it was a definate never breed her again. But she has chosen the food bowl as her nest and Emmett is her beau.

keep us update I hope she is okay

if she is not better or doesn't pass the egg I would get her to the vet ASAP

I know there is something in our FAQ about being eggbound too

I won't put her in the bathroom, because I don't wanna move her. But she is going to the vet tomorrow.

l hope she will be okay, please keep updateing us on her.

Edited August 12, 200718 yr by birdluv

Oh no!!! I hope she does okay and that the vet can help her if she doesn't pass the egg by then. Good luck!!

Well she still hasn't passed the egg. I took her into the vet today and they are keeping her over night. She was still relatively perky this morning, and still perching, but her left eye was closed in what I think was pain. When I went back to visit her later on, the vet said that they had got her stabilised and that she was breathing better now that she had been in the incubator and warmed up. She managed to get 3mls of food into her and she has had some fluids. I think calcium and glucose etc. When I visited she was about to go in to have some x rays taken. There are some risks involved with the anaesthesia. But I don't think she'll have a problem, she's a strong little girl and she handled anaesthesia really well last time.

I'll go and check on her tomorrow. Here's hoping she'll be okay

Edited August 13, 200718 yr by Sailorwolf

I hope she does well at the vet, and passes that egg.

I just got a call form the vet. She says that even with the meds Saffy still hasn't passed the egg and that she doesn't look like she has been trying. Because that egg has been in there for over 48 hours it is most likely that it has started to bind to the uterus wall. So we could insert a needle into the egg and collapse it, but hat could mean the egg stays in there. The other option is surgery, where they will take the egg out and may have to do a hysterectomy. I think I will go for the surgery as it doesnot take much longer than the other procedure and they will be able to get all of the egg out. I have also asked that they do perform a hysterectomy as well so that this doesn't happen in the future. I will talk to the vet tomorrow and see what the costs are.

She said that there is definitely an egg there as it showed on the Xrays and that she was able to feed Saffy some more food, but she said that there is also a chance that Saffy may deteriorate over night, so i have to be prepared for anything.

Thanks for everything guys, wish us good luck.

Good luck, what is a hysterectomy? I hope that surgery goes well and Saffy makes a full recovery.

Ooh poor Saffy, I hope everything works out well, my thoughts are with you :nest: Bea a Hysterectomy is where they surgically remove all the reproductive organs, and uterus

Pure girl :nest:

I hope she will be okay soon

Sorry to hear the outcome is so serious Sailorwolf. Crossing all my fingers for her safe recovery :angel1:

Thanks you guys are awesome

The support is great.

I am so sorry Saffy is such a special part of our BBC community. Please keep us updated, big hugs.

l'm sorry, l'm hoping for the best for Sassy.

Oh poor Saffy! I am anxious for an update.

Hi Sailorwolf, just for future reference you can try taking the bird in your hand,you should be able to feel the egg, applying slight pressure from just above sometimes will easily dislodge it, or you can applya little olive oil brushed on the vent or carefully insert into the opening will help. Sorry this is a bit late hope all goe's well

Hi Sailorwolf, just for future reference you can try taking the bird in your hand,you should be able to feel the egg, applying slight pressure from just above sometimes will easily dislodge it, or you can applya little olive oil brushed on the vent or carefully insert into the opening will help. Sorry this is a bit late hope all goe's well

 

I would NOT advise anyone inexperienced trying to manipulate an egg in a bird who is eggbound.

((((HUGS)))) Oh SW that is so sad, I hope saffy makes it. You and Saffy will be in my thoughts. Keep us updated.

Well I got a call from the vet this morning and Saffy had prolapsed during the night and needed to go into surgery as soon as possible. I okayed it and got a call back an hour later to say that she had pulled through surgery quite well and is now staying in the incubator.They managed to get the egg out and push the uterus back in. I went to visit her later on today and she is looking really good. The vet said that to prevent this from happening in the future they could spay her or out her on hormone treatment. She didn't decide to do the hysterectomy on her as the uterus was still quite vascularised and everything. But I think that will be the choice in the future, because I don't want her to go through this again. However she needs a rest the poor little thing and that won't be happening for some time.

The vet managed to get some more food into her and now Saffy is eating on her own. She is on lots of things at the moment, such as antibiotics ( to stop infection from any necrotic tissue that may have formed while her uterus was prolapsed) I didn't manage to catch them all, but the main one that I was listening out for was analgesiacs (or pain relief) and she is on those, which is great. She is staying another night as there is still a risk of another prolapse. But in the incubator next to her is a lovely little yellow and white (not lutino) cockatiel, who was trying his hardest to get her attention and talk to her. He was even tapping on the glass with his beak. He was such a sweety (I want him) and he will certainly make her stay less lonely. When I left she was chirping to him. The little tiel was in there with heavy metal poisoning, but he looked pretty happy. I think he was just happy to get some company.

So hopefully she will be fine. I knew she would pull through she is such a little fighter and she is also stubborn. :ausb:

Thanks for your support guys.

Edited August 14, 200718 yr by Sailorwolf

I remember reading many years ago (like 25-30 odd years ago) advice for the egg bound hens was

1. warmth, confinement in a small hospital cage and rub vaseline on the area around the cloaca to soften it but if that fails to:

2. carefully break the egg to allow the hen to pass it.

 

Is that now frowned upon ... or forgotten? Hysterectomies seem an over-reaction and barbaric ... sterile and somebody-else's-problem but barbaric all the same.

 

KathyW.