Here's what happened with some of my eggbound females...



I had an albino female in her first year of breeding in 2002. She dropped only slugs. The next year she dropped some good eggs, but was eggbound with one. I palpated it out and it was a calcified egg which I think was from the year before. Apparently I palpated too hard and tore her oviduct as she died the next day.



I had a female hypo that was eggbound last year. I didn't want to risk hurting her, so I had the vet aspirate the egg. However, she never would pass the shell. Eventually it moved back up the oviduct to her midbody area. I feared the worst during this year's breeding season, but she dropped a clutch just fine and I never did see the shell.



I then had another female get eggbound this year with a really huge egg. I decided to not do any intervention. Her egg also moved back up the oviduct to midbody after a week or so, then later on I found the shell in her cage (I had not aspirated that one).
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Paul Weaver

Carolina Herps

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• Egg reabsorbtion question--Hondo - mgl, Wed Oct 5 22:23:20 2005
• just to clarify my comments - Rtdunham, Wed Oct 5 22:45:33 2005
• Thanks Terry...more - mgl, Wed Oct 5 22:56:33 2005
• RE: Egg reabsorbtion question--Hondo - JMartin, Wed Oct 5 22:46:32 2005
• Slight bumps, but a different feeling then eggs.... - mgl, Wed Oct 5 23:01:12 2005
• Let me screw you all up - snakesunlimited1, Thu Oct 6 00:21:13 2005
• RE: Egg reabsorbtion question--Hondo - pweaver, Thu Oct 6 07:09:03 2005
• i asked my vet to look over this thread n/p - Rtdunham, Thu Oct 6 09:31:34 2005
• Terry, do you mind asking your vet this question too? - Conserving_herps, Thu Oct 6 09:47:10 2005
• if he looks here he'll see it! - Rtdunham, Thu Oct 6 10:19:32 2005
• Response to the last line/paragraph... - Conserving_herps, Thu Oct 6 11:30:53 2005
• a valid point... - Rtdunham, Fri Oct 7 18:10:16 2005
• sure dont have enough experience to answer this one - milki, Thu Oct 6 10:48:58 2005
• RE: Egg reabsorbtion question--Hondo - tspuckler, Thu Oct 6 11:01:31 2005
• RE: Egg reabsorbtion question--Hondo - RobHaneisen, Thu Oct 6 20:54:10 2005
• RE: Egg reabsorbtion question--Hondo - eexotics, Tue Oct 11 09:34:54 2005