Oxytocin

[Stacylynnlac]

My hen was egg bound so my vet gave her oxytocin to pass the egg. She’s not walking much going on 2 weeks now after passing the egg because of damaging her nerve, but eating and drinking. How long do I have to throw out her eggs after being on that medication? She is also on Avian. Getting hard to figure out who’s laying what egg and I’m scared I’m going to eat hers! Thanks!

 

[Eggcessive]

I have tried looking to see what the lenth of time for egg withdrawal is, and only came up with the statement in the 3 rd paragragh of this article that it does not stay very long:
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/o...tics-in-the-chicken-we-eat/article6420044.ece

Oxytocin is a natural occuring hormone. I would call your vet and ask them about a withdrawal time. That is not something many backyard chicken people are familiar with, although it is common to give the women in labor. You might look at FARAD to see how few drugs are approved for chickens in the US:
http://www.farad.org/publications/digests/122015EggResidue.pdf

 

[aart]

I have tried looking to see what the lenth of time for egg withdrawal is, and only came up with the statement in the 3 rd paragragh of this article that it does not stay very long:
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/o...tics-in-the-chicken-we-eat/article6420044.ece

I think that was for dairy cows? ...eggs could be a whole other story.
<shudders to think of getting that crap thru my eggs>

 

[eandsm]

My hen was egg bound so my vet gave her oxytocin to pass the egg. She’s not walking much going on 2 weeks now after passing the egg because of damaging her nerve, but eating and drinking. How long do I have to throw out her eggs after being on that medication? She is also on Avian. Getting hard to figure out who’s laying what egg and I’m scared I’m going to eat hers! Thanks!

Did your hen get back to normal and able to walk again? We just had our hen to vet, who said she has at least 3 eggs inside. He gave her oxytocin also. I'm hopeful she'll be walking soon, if the eggs expel, but didnt know there may be permanent nerve damage??

 

[Fairview01]

My hen was egg bound so my vet gave her oxytocin to pass the egg. She’s not walking much going on 2 weeks now after passing the egg because of damaging her nerve, but eating and drinking. How long do I have to throw out her eggs after being on that medication? She is also on Avian. Getting hard to figure out who’s laying what egg and I’m scared I’m going to eat hers! Thanks!

Never heard of giving oxytocin to a non lactating animal that does not give birth to live offspring. Oxytocin has 2 main actions. Causes contractions of the uterus to assist in birth and the let down response in lactation.

In respect to the former i supppse it may help expell an egg however imo there would be a greater liability to break the egg due to the extreme muscular contractions. It is a VERY powerful hormone. It takes very little to cause contractions.

Since this is an off label use whatever anyone suggests is a guess. Probably the best way is to google the half life and quadruple that.

 

[eandsm]

Never heard of giving oxytocin to a non lactating animal that does not give birth to live offspring. Oxytocin has 2 main actions. Causes contractions of the uterus to assist in birth and the let down response in lactation.

We ended up taking our hen to a vet yesterday. He took x-rays (yes, we love our pet hens) and found at least three "eggs" inside. She has been stumbling around quite severely for two days. We have her in a cage in the garage. Otherwise, she seems healthy. The vet did give her an oxytocin shot to try and help expel the eggs. The other thing he said they could do is to draw the fluid out of the eggs, although I'm sure that is expensive and sounds dangerous anyway to me. Our hen has not laid these eggs. I was wondering, since the eggs, from my research, would indicate they are laid in the abdomen and not the oviduct, how the eggs would even be expelled with contractions since they're not in the oviduct (at least my understanding. He did not say that though, but just that she was laying internally). I'll keep you posted if she ends up laying these eggs or not, although I would expect her to have laid them by now. It's been about 18 hours.

 

[Fairview01]

Never heard of giving oxytocin to a non lactating animal that does not give birth to live offspring. Oxytocin has 2 main actions. Causes contractions of the uterus to assist in birth and the let down response in lactation.

We ended up taking our hen to a vet yesterday. He took x-rays (yes, we love our pet hens) and found at least three "eggs" inside. She has been stumbling around quite severely for two days. We have her in a cage in the garage. Otherwise, she seems healthy. The vet did give her an oxytocin shot to try and help expel the eggs. The other thing he said they could do is to draw the fluid out of the eggs, although I'm sure that is expensive and sounds dangerous anyway to me. Our hen has not laid these eggs. I was wondering, since the eggs, from my research, would indicate they are laid in the abdomen and not the oviduct, how the eggs would even be expelled with contractions since they're not in the oviduct (at least my understanding. He did not say that though, but just that she was laying internally). I'll keep you posted if she ends up laying these eggs or not, although I would expect her to have laid them by now. It's been about 18 hours.

Staight up there are 2 difficult options here. Option A the eggs are expelled/removed by some means and the hen survives. Option B the eggs are retained and the hen dies. I don't see an option C.

The hen's survival depends on getting the eggs out. I'm not sure what only removing the liquid will benefit since there will.at least be some sort of membrane remaining that would be retained.

I'm of no value to help you with options to remove the eggs and i have probably stated the painfully obvious however if left unresolved the outcome is terminal.

 

[Eggcessive]

Has anyone suggested giving the hen some calcium daily to help lay the eggs? Low calcium levels can lead to egg binding. Tums, human calcium tablet, or a pulverized hard egg shell can be given orally or in food for several days. You may want to read this short article on egg binding and impacted oviduct:
https://www.merckvetmanual.com/poul...tem/egg-bound-or-impacted-oviducts-in-poultry