Hi BYC community; my little Virgilia is almost 2 years old - she's a golden commet. yesterday she sat in the nesting box all day, fluffed up like a broody hen. but then i noticed egg white in her poop. and then later she passed what looked like a mangled soft shelled/malformed egg along with a lot of yolk and white.
i tried to soak her in a bath (she didn't fit very well in the bucket, and refused to sit so as to fully submerge her vent), and used a syringe to try to flush her vent area (but again, was afraid of injecting water with too much force into her...so not sure it really got up in there enough. She stood pretty motionless in one place for as long as i was awake last night (inside a kennel in the living room), but did eat a little scrambled egg at one point.
this morning when i checked on her, there was some more normalish poop (brown and white). but her crop was firm and full still, even though i didn't really see her eat anything but a few bites of egg all day yesterday. So now i'm wondering if her crop has been impacted for a while, and malnutrition maybe caused the malformed egg. So many problems now to worry about! Impacted crop, preventing peritonitis, another malformed egg rupturing inside her...i hardly know where to begin.
I wanted to try to get some oil and water in her to start massaging the crop to address that issue...but she won't take the oil from the dropper. Not sure how to get her beak open without hurting her...
Can someone offer guidance here? there is no avian veterinarian in my area, so i'm on my own.
i tried to soak her in a bath (she didn't fit very well in the bucket, and refused to sit so as to fully submerge her vent), and used a syringe to try to flush her vent area (but again, was afraid of injecting water with too much force into her...so not sure it really got up in there enough. She stood pretty motionless in one place for as long as i was awake last night (inside a kennel in the living room), but did eat a little scrambled egg at one point.
this morning when i checked on her, there was some more normalish poop (brown and white). but her crop was firm and full still, even though i didn't really see her eat anything but a few bites of egg all day yesterday. So now i'm wondering if her crop has been impacted for a while, and malnutrition maybe caused the malformed egg. So many problems now to worry about! Impacted crop, preventing peritonitis, another malformed egg rupturing inside her...i hardly know where to begin.
I wanted to try to get some oil and water in her to start massaging the crop to address that issue...but she won't take the oil from the dropper. Not sure how to get her beak open without hurting her...
Can someone offer guidance here? there is no avian veterinarian in my area, so i'm on my own.