My Duck May Be Egg Bound

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AmandaVirus said:
She finally laid it!

After I got an electrolyte/vitamin mix and added it to her water she started to do the tail bob thing, so I gave her extra calcium and filled the tub with warm water and let soak for an hour. I went to drain the tub and take her out and the egg was hanging out of her, it had a weird "tube" coming off of it and was a hard rubbery texture. She is feeling much better now, and I'm so relieved to see it out!
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WOOT! I'm happy for you! Was it by any chance a large egg?
 
Does anyone know if an egg can pass another egg in the tract? I still feel the egg I was feeling a few days ago, it's obviously hard with a shell and only about an inch or two (it moves) from the vent. But the egg she laid in the tub was soft and looked smaller than the one I was feeling, she laid another soft shelled egg today, a big one, but I still feel the hard egg through her belly. Could I be feeling something else? It's feels rather large.
 
AmandaVirus said:
Does anyone know if an egg can pass another egg in the tract? I still feel the egg I was feeling a few days ago, it's obviously hard with a shell and only about an inch or two (it moves) from the vent. But the egg she laid in the tub was soft and looked smaller than the one I was feeling, she laid another soft shelled egg today, a big one, but I still feel the hard egg through her belly. Could I be feeling something else? It's feels rather large.
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I am sure this can happen, I have been looking up more about egg bound ducks. Sense I've seen your post. Along with more about egg bound chickens sense we -Thought- one of our hens might have been egg bound. If your feeling the egg in there, Try to put KY Jelly on your finger massage the vent. And try to rub some on the egg, keep her in warm moist area's. Massage her stomach sometimes, if all else fails. Make a hole in the hard egg, drain out all the liquid from it with a syrenge. And pull out the egg shells. Make sure to be carefull not to hurt her vent. And make sure it is actually a egg. Before obstructing anything. (I'm sure it is.)

As far as soft eggs go, try putting her on some vitamin water, layer pellets.. And taking her out in the sun every day. To harden her eggs.


http://www.metzerfarms.com/EggBound.cfm?CustID=17127
http://beautyofbirds.com/eggbinding.html

http://poultrykeeper.com/egg-problems/soft-thin-or-missing-egg-shells
 
I've been trying all of that, but I can't feel the egg through her vent, it seems like it's stuck in the shell gland. It's close to the vent.

She eats layer feed and as of two days ago, she is also getting vitamin/electrolyte water.
 
I'm thinking now that she may not be egg bound. It's sounds a lot like internal laying, ascites, or egg yolk peritonitis. She has all of the symptoms. I'm going to try and get antibiotics, but everything I've read has said there isn't much hope. I'm a wreck right now. I really hope I'm wrong.
 
AmandaVirus said:
I'm thinking now that she may not be egg bound. It's sounds a lot like internal laying, ascites, or egg yolk peritonitis. She has all of the symptoms. I'm going to try and get antibiotics, but everything I've read has said there isn't much hope. I'm a wreck right now. I really hope I'm wrong.
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I hope everything goes okay, please keep us updated.
 
A bit of an update:
We took her to the vet today, the vet we wanted to go to was out of town so we went to the one they recommended second. She seemed knowledgeable about birds and knew about egg bound and confirmed that there is in fact an egg in her, but she thinks because she has laid a few soft eggs, that she will lay this one by tomorrow. I hope she's right, but... I'm skeptical. She said that when they are truly egg bound, they can't pass anything, often times not even poop. If there isn't any progress in a few days, I am taking her to the livestock/farm animal vet on Monday. She told me to keep up with giving her oyster shell and extra calcium.
 

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