Not sure how you could have prevented it.



I have an eastern king egg bound for no apparent reason (far as I know no one has mixed her up with the male king to have gotten her preggers). It started out with the first egg prolapsing the oviduct which meant a trip to the vet to have the egg aspirated, teased out and the oviduct pushed back up. After that we though a 'wait and see' period to see if she would pass the rest of the eggs naturally. Many days later she finally gets around to laying...gets one egg out and blocks up on the others..very distended body now, but the eggs are not even close to the vent at all like one would expect. So another emergency trip to the vet. Xrays showed 8 eggs. The vet could not manually remove the eggs due to their placement so it meant surgery. Two incisions and 9 eggs later, she's good to go (ie she's alive and breathing). I get to pick her up tomorrow. The vet did say he took a culture swab to send off to be tested to see if maybe she had some kind of infection inside that ultimately led to the dystocia problem....long shot theory, but we'll see.



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Wyvern

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• Eggbound Honduran - blueharlequin, Sun Jun 8 18:21:59 2003
• RE: Eggbound Honduran - phwyvern, Sun Jun 8 18:48:47 2003
• RE: Eggbound Honduran - markg, Sun Jun 8 23:12:12 2003
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