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UPDATE:
We just got back from the vets. She was in a quite sorry state when I got home from work - swollen, messy, unable to pass much faeces, tail right up in the air, sad and slow-moving.
We rushed her in to the emergency vet's surgery, and whilst she was in transit in her carrybox she'd managed to lay a completely membrane-less egg in the bottom of the box. Literally a white and a yolk with nothing enclosing it.
The vet listened to her story and saw the evidence in the box and diagnosed egg peritonitis - our worst fear obviously. He spent a long while massaging her abdomen and examining her vent, and still looked doubtful.
Then, just as he wandered over to the computer and it seemed he was within moments of putting her to sleep, she strained, pushed and plopped yet another egg onto the examination table! To say I'm now astonished is putting it mildly.
So, then she really perked up, flapping, wanting to be let go, acting like the normal Bella again! Very feisy and naughty. Even the vet was rather surprised I think! He seems to think that if we wash her to stop her getting sore, get her eating as much calcium as possible, and restrict her diet to layer's pellets only (to firm up her poop and aid her in keeping that rear end clean), she'll recover well.
I'm, however, worried that there may be even more eggs sitting in there. She has never missed a day yet - so how on earth she's managing to lay daily and at the same time lay internally is quite a mystery. She's obviously working overtime.
Does anything else think the outlook still seems pretty bleak? Or should I stop being so negative?
We just got back from the vets. She was in a quite sorry state when I got home from work - swollen, messy, unable to pass much faeces, tail right up in the air, sad and slow-moving.
We rushed her in to the emergency vet's surgery, and whilst she was in transit in her carrybox she'd managed to lay a completely membrane-less egg in the bottom of the box. Literally a white and a yolk with nothing enclosing it.
The vet listened to her story and saw the evidence in the box and diagnosed egg peritonitis - our worst fear obviously. He spent a long while massaging her abdomen and examining her vent, and still looked doubtful.
Then, just as he wandered over to the computer and it seemed he was within moments of putting her to sleep, she strained, pushed and plopped yet another egg onto the examination table! To say I'm now astonished is putting it mildly.
So, then she really perked up, flapping, wanting to be let go, acting like the normal Bella again! Very feisy and naughty. Even the vet was rather surprised I think! He seems to think that if we wash her to stop her getting sore, get her eating as much calcium as possible, and restrict her diet to layer's pellets only (to firm up her poop and aid her in keeping that rear end clean), she'll recover well.
I'm, however, worried that there may be even more eggs sitting in there. She has never missed a day yet - so how on earth she's managing to lay daily and at the same time lay internally is quite a mystery. She's obviously working overtime.
Does anything else think the outlook still seems pretty bleak? Or should I stop being so negative?