Fat belly

[needlessjunk]

Wow! Do they have free choice of oyster shell? I'm glad she is doing better and now we know to look out for this.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Wow! Do they have free choice of oyster shell? I'm glad she is doing better and now we know to look out for this.

X2 thank goodness you took her an got help for her.

 

[Sfraker]

I feed a maintenance feed because I have two drakes. Because of that I have two bowls side by side with grit and calcium. Her crop was full of grit on the xray. So she is eating the grit and just ignoring the calcium right next to it.
Right now i have a ton of calcium mixed in her food. I don't know what to do once she is back with the flock. How will I ensure she eats calcium?
Any suggestions?

 

[Miss Lydia]

I feed a maintenance feed because I have two drakes. Because of that I have two bowls side by side with grit and calcium. Her crop was full of grit on the xray. So she is eating the grit and just ignoring the calcium right next to it.
Right now i have a ton of calcium mixed in her food. I don't know what to do once she is back with the flock. How will I ensure she eats calcium?
Any suggestions?

You might have to take her off by herself and give it to her in something she likes real well smashed peas might work. When I was treating a hen[chicken] only I would wait till after noon and get her alone in the coop and offer her med in yogurt with a tiny bit of bread she scarfed it down with out batting an eye.Maybe like you did today it will drive the rest nuts but at least she'll get her calcium.

 

[Amiga]

Romy and I would have our "special" time. After the first time, she cooperated very nicely. I would show up in the pen, with a custard cup of smashed peas with calcium gluconate in them.

She would look left, look right, then saunter over to an unoccupied corner and wait for me. I would squat down next to her and hold the custard cup while she quickly nommed it all down. It was very much like a spy movie - Romy getting her special! It was fun, and amazing that she caught on right away she was getting something just for her.

 

[Sfraker]

@Amiga how much calcium gluconate did you feed per day?

 

[Amiga]

I recall it being half a teaspoon of calcium gluconate.

You might ask your vet for a recommended dose - body weight figures into it.

 

[Sfraker]

Update

We were back at the vet for a fourth time. She has twice been given a liquid hormone to try to restart her cycle. The liquid is squirted into her vent. Needless to say she now throws a tantrum when she sees the vet.

The mass of unformed eggs is doughy rather than hard. So that shows progress. However she has only laid one small fried egg.

Today the vet used an ultrasound to guide a tube into her vent and drain some more egg out. She was able to remove around 30 ml of egg. She then used the same laser therapy used for egg yolk peritonitis
Thank goodness they are not charging me full rates. I have a great vet!

However if we don't see progress in a week it will be time to say goodbye. She does not feel great and she gets tired really fast with walking. The only other option is surgery and that is out of my budget.
Please keep Duckaine in your prayers.

 

[needlessjunk]

Update

We were back at the vet for a fourth time. She has twice been given a liquid hormone to try to restart her cycle. The liquid is squirted into her vent. Needless to say she now throws a tantrum when she sees the vet.

The mass of unformed eggs is doughy rather than hard. So that shows progress. However she has only laid one small fried egg.

Today the vet used an ultrasound to guide a tube into her vent and drain some more egg out. She was able to remove around 30 ml of egg. She then used the same laser therapy used for egg yolk peritonitis
Thank goodness they are not charging me full rates. I have a great vet!

However if we don't see progress in a week it will be time to say goodbye. She does not feel great and she gets tired really fast with walking. The only other option is surgery and that is out of my budget.
Please keep Duckaine in your prayers.

I'm so sorry this is happening. It sounds like you have a wonderful vet and I hope she starts doing better soon.

 

[Sfraker]

Last night we had Duckaine put to sleep. We tried hormone injections and egg yolk peritonitis laser therapy. Extra calcium and support care. Nothing helped.

The vet did a necropsy for free to find out what was wrong. She called and stated that Duckaine had cystic hyperplasia ovaries. Basically she had cysts on her ovaries and in addition she was producing way too many yolks/follicles.
The yolks were going into her abdominal cavity rather than going the correct way through her reproductive tract.

So it's good we put her down as it does not appear anything short of a major surgery would have helped.