Hen egg bound for 4 days now; multiple egg situation. Please help

[topochico225]

I neglected to clarify what tp syringe into the inside of the cloaca. Use warmed saline.

She got the egg out!!!! Thank you so much for your help!

 

[azygous]

 

[azygous]

This is great! But, not to put a damper on the celebration, there could be another egg right behind this one. The second egg could be shell-less and prone to collapsing. You will have evidence of a second egg if the patient doesn't rebound immediately.

Continued lethargy and wanting to hunker down is indication she isn't finished. Leave her where she is and provide water with the sugar in it. If this egg comes out broken with yolk squashed and runny, she will require an antibiotic to head off almost certain infection.

Please report on how she's behaving now.

 

[topochico225]

This is great! But, not to put a damper on the celebration, there could be another egg right behind this one. The second egg could be shell-less and prone to collapsing. You will have evidence of a second egg if the patient doesn't rebound immediately.

Continued lethargy and wanting to hunker down is indication she isn't finished. Leave her where she is and provide water with the sugar in it. If this egg comes out broken with yolk squashed and runny, she will require an antibiotic to head off almost certain infection.

Please report on how she's behaving now.

Crud. She's still lethargic/wanting to hunker down. I'll bring her back in. She was out in her own secluded area of the coop to recover.

 

[topochico225]

This is great! But, not to put a damper on the celebration, there could be another egg right behind this one. The second egg could be shell-less and prone to collapsing. You will have evidence of a second egg if the patient doesn't rebound immediately.

Continued lethargy and wanting to hunker down is indication she isn't finished. Leave her where she is and provide water with the sugar in it. If this egg comes out broken with yolk squashed and runny, she will require an antibiotic to head off almost certain infection.

Please report on how she's behaving now.

I hate that I have to ask this, but at what point do I have to consider euthanasia? I really don't want her to suffer. The place below her vent keeps getting more swollen, I'll go get a pic now

 

[azygous]

We're not to that point yet. Having a double egg event is more common than you think. The first time it happened in my flock, it really surprised me. I had never heard of two eggs coming down the chute together. Since then, over the years, I've had several of these. They've all been resolved, and the hen went on to lead a long normal life after calcium citrate treatment.

 

[topochico225]

We're not to that point yet. Having a double egg event is more common than you think. The first time it happened in my flock, it really surprised me. I had never heard of two eggs coming down the chute together. Since then, over the years, I've had several of these. They've all been resolved, and the hen went on to lead a long normal life after calcium citrate treatment.

Whew, that's good to hear!

When do I follow up with another cal carb dose?

 

[azygous]

You can go ahead and give her another dose now. Then again in the morning if she's still in this holding pattern.

 

[topochico225]

You can go ahead and give her another dose now. Then again in the morning if she's still in this holding pattern.

Here's the swollen belly. Feels almost like ascites, but less big, from what I've read.

I had to trim extremely poopy feathers away.

 

[topochico225]

You can go ahead and give her another dose now. Then again in the morning if she's still in this holding pattern.

Still no change. She's passed some diarrhea, and I gave her a very thin wet mash of chick feed since she hasn't eaten in 4 days. She drank the liquid off the top and pecked a little at the mash.

I gave her a cal carb pill this morning around 6:30, I need to give her another one. She's very quiet and breathing with her beak open.