Eggbound for 3+ days, but no straining or trying to lay!

[Cosmos_]

You could try tubing fluids, lots of fluids.

I am too new to feel comfortable tubing, but the force pipetting gets her a decent amount of liquid if we do it often enough. Plus she is not very docile and i don't think possible to get a tube in her without strapping her head and body down

 

[Cosmos_]

If she is egg bound and has been for some days then she may have given up trying to push the egg out.
At this stage I would break the egg.
You will however need to clean the broken eggshell out and you need to get it all.
The larger pieces you can pull out with your fingers. Don't wear gloves! Clean your hands. You will also need a high volume syringe.
Once all the shell you can feel with your finger is removed you will need to flush out any remaining egg and shell with the syringe full of warm water. Do not go about this like pressure washing. Gebtly insert the syringe into her vent about a couple of inches deep and gently flood the inside of her vent. Repeat until thhe water coming out her vent is clean.

This is what I think I need to do, and will do it tomorrow. We were hoping the egg was rotating as it should...but i am giving up on her doing it normally. Thank you very much for the through instructions .

I have clean 50 mL syringes so that should be good.


I will keep everyone updated on how it goes, and please wish me and Robot luck.

I never saw her strain or try to lay, but she might have tried and gone through that process when she was still outside.

 

[casportpony]

I am too new to feel comfortable tubing, but the force pipetting gets her a decent amount of liquid if we do it often enough. Plus she is not very docile and i don't think possible to get a tube in her without strapping her head and body down

She needs at least 10% of her body weight in fluids each day (a 5-pound bird gets 230 ml).

 

[Cosmos_]

If she is egg bound and has been for some days then she may have given up trying to push the egg out.
At this stage I would break the egg.
You will however need to clean the broken eggshell out and you need to get it all.
The larger pieces you can pull out with your fingers. Don't wear gloves! Clean your hands. You will also need a high volume syringe.
Once all the shell you can feel with your finger is removed you will need to flush out any remaining egg and shell with the syringe full of warm water. Do not go about this like pressure washing. Gebtly insert the syringe into her vent about a couple of inches deep and gently flood the inside of her vent. Repeat until thhe water coming out her vent is clean.

One last thing...how do I break the egg since it is right up to vent but I can't see it?

 

[Shadrach]

One last thing...how do I break the egg since it is right up to vent but I can't see it?

If it's right up against the vent then you can see it if you look.
Are you sure there is an egg there?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

She is eggbound - it is directly in front of her vent since I felt it on Thursday morning.

From the outside? Can you not see an egg right inside her vent?
If you don't see it, then how are you going to break it?

 

[casportpony]

To break it, you must be able to touch the eggshell with your finger.

 

[Cosmos_]

When I.put my finger in her vent, I couldn't go any further than 1 or 2 mm because of a hard, smooth, rounded surface. If that's not an egg I don't know what is!

It is so close, and the vent is so small, and I can't get anything inside to hold open the vent, so I can't see anything. It is like it was pushing against the vent, keeping it closed because it is so tight.

And I still don't know how I should break the egg. Squeeze it in her? Make a small hole? And with what?

Thanks for all your responses, I really appreciate it and hopefully I won't have to use this experience as much in the future. I feel I have horrible luck..

 

[casportpony]

You need to fish around for the opening to the reproductive tract, it's on the left, sort of between 9:00 & 12:00.

 

[Cosmos_]

She needs at least 10% of her body weight in fluids each day (a 5-pound bird gets 230 ml).

Oy, that is a lot. I am probably getting about 100 to 120mL in her only. But mostly also because I don't know how much I can give her at a time. I don't want to drown her with too much liquid at a time. I give her about 15 to 20 mL at a time. Can I do more? Or just more often?