Help. Egg bound pigeon.

[Tiffy316]

One of my pigeons is egg bound. She's got a vet appointment, but I vant get her there till Monday. She's eating and can fly around, but she just hasn't been acting like herself, has a limp, has trouble keeping her balance on my shoulder, and is much lighter than she should be. What can I do to help her?

 

[Aapomp831]

Give her a crushed up calcium tablet ASAP (human kind ok) and soak her in a warm epsom salt bath.

 

[Tiffy316]

I don't have espom salt, but I gave her a quarter of a Tums. I also gave her a warm bath for 25 minutes, I don't see an egg, and I'm not sure if I can feel one, but her symptoms lead me to believe that she's egg bound.

 

[Tiffy316]

No change so far.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

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@Qwerty3159

Any suggestions?

 

[Qwerty3159]

Sorry to hear about this. I haven’t dealt with egg binding myself but all I know on the subject coincides with the advice you’ve been given so far. Keep her warm and isolated in something like a pet carrier or bird cage to limit her movements because with the stumbling due to the egg binding she could fall and break the egg causing more complications

 

[Qwerty3159]

How did the vet appointment go?

 

[Tiffy316]

She died at the vets office a couple of hours ago. They said it wasn't related to egg binding, but they don't know what was wrong with her.

 

[Tiffy316]

It turns out that she ate a staple that punctured her stomach, an air sack, and some kind of artery near her heart. The bacteria from her stomach got into her other wounds and caused a nasty infection which killed her within a matter if days.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

It turns out that she ate a staple that punctured her stomach, an air sack, and some kind of artery near her heart. The bacteria from her stomach got into her other wounds and caused a nasty infection which killed her within a matter if days.

I'm sorry to hear that
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