I listen alot to peoples take on the subject, from excercise/muscle tone to diet and caging. I suspect that possibly some folks who have never dealt with it are more lucky than knowledgable(no insult meant to anyone). In the eighties I had a number of animals that were egg bound. REALLY discouraging to raise up hatchlings to adults, breed them and get eggbound. I never once saw Oxcytocin work on any of my anmals. If I'm not mistaken the Loves write about their experience with binding improving with larger caging and that they use the syringe method with little problem in their Corn snake book. The vet surgery to remove them is pretty costly here. I once left an E.King on her own to pass them and she died in a weeks time. My last surgery was $500.00 for a very large leucistic Black rat. I really care about my animals but I have a family to take care of and that is cost prohibitive for me.Breeding is not my priority hobbywise these days because of it. Too much of a heart break.(though I do aquire animals in pairs just in case I change my mind) Good luck.

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• Xray of eggs - dawnrenee2000, Tue May 30 10:56:51 2006
• RE: Xray of eggs - pweaver, Tue May 30 12:12:41 2006
• could be... - dawnrenee2000, Tue May 30 12:21:31 2006
• RE: could be... - pweaver, Tue May 30 12:34:45 2006
• timeline.. - dawnrenee2000, Tue May 30 14:10:43 2006
• RE: What type/size cage do you use? n/m - markg, Tue May 30 13:52:54 2006
• rack... - dawnrenee2000, Tue May 30 14:05:15 2006
• egg binding is really demoralizing.. - BobS, Tue May 30 14:38:46 2006
• I know what you mean - dawnrenee2000, Tue May 30 16:44:24 2006
• RE: I know what you mean - hwh, Tue May 30 21:15:37 2006
• A little venting on egg binding - zach_whitman, Tue May 30 21:34:14 2006
• oh, one more thing - zach_whitman, Tue May 30 21:35:49 2006
• RE: Do I think.. yes and no - markg, Wed May 31 01:50:05 2006