egg bound

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If a bird is egg bound what do you have to do to rectify the problem ?  Is there anything you can do ? :-/

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Oh and how do you tell that a bird is egg bound ?

[Guest strapper]

when i had canaries/budgies. i would take them into the house in the warm..they wouldnt be log b4 they passed the egg.

[Guest peter.j]

a bit of olive oil around the vent and hold over some warm /steaming water

[Blue Chequer Pied]

Egg binding can be caused by lack of calcium. As stated bring them into the warmth. Do not try to force the egg out. When I bred budgies it was much more common. What I did to rectify it was to give a calcium supplement directly into the crop via a crop tube. I would then heat olive oil and work it into the vent (gently) and then leave it overnight in a cage near the radiator in the shed. In the morning without fail the egg was in the cage and the bird ok. If you leave it untreated the bird could suffer a pro-lapse which at best ends it breeding and at worst kills the hen.

 

Try these steps and the bird should be ok. Give the birds some cod-liver on the corn along with a calcium supplement. Cod-liver oil is high in vitamin D which is vital for calcium to be absorbed into the blood stream.

 

Best of luck.

 

Paul.

[Taylorsloft]

If a bird is egg bound what do you have to do to rectify the problem ?  Is there anything you can do ? :-/

 

go down to seaton and ask billy cambell  

[Guest Owen]

Blue Chequer Pied is spot on. However, I would like to say, that there is no excuse for you having hens egg bound. It is caused mostly by bad management. Your birds must have calcium and magnesium fresh every day. And they must have sunlight and good clean fresh air.

The sad thing is that egg binding in one or two hens means that most of your birds are deficient in the essentials for health. This is one of those basic things that must be done. Can you imagine why people spend big money on birds and do not take steps to ensure their health is right? Equally, can you imagine how it would be possible to breed good youngsters from stock that is deficient in the basic ingredients for health.  

[Blue Chequer Pied]

 

go down to seaton and ask billy cambell  

 

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None of my birds are egg bound Owen.  I was just asking the question out of curiosity because Ive never seen it and so wouldnt know how to recognise it or treat it if it ever happened.  There are probiotic yoghurts given on the food regular and so they would get plenty of Calcium from that,  they are given oils on the food twice a week and there are always fresh minerals down for them as well.  I have only ever had three races in 2003 comin 6th on the third and beating a lot of the top fanciers in that race with pigeons that I bred off birds that I paid £1 each for off a bloke who hadnt raced for years and never selectivly bred his birds.  He just let them choose there own parteners every year.  So they cant be anything wrong with my managment Owen.

[Guest Owen]

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there is nothing wrong in being prepared for anything. Sorry if I came across as being a bit grumpy. I do get fed up with people telling me how much they paid for this that and the other and then not looking after the birds properly. And a lot of these so called Fanciers try to deal with their problems by breeding more and more youngsters. They seem to think that the odds can be turned in their faviour if they can enter more birds in the races. The result is that the races are bogged down with crap birds that spread disease to all that come in contact with them. You should try asking a Convoyer about the sicked up corn in the race paniers.

I am sure that if you had continued to select from your pound pigeons you could have done really well with them. The idea  that pigeons bred from a series of non racers that came from so and so's loft will be champions is another one of those myths. I am convinced that the only way you can aquire good pigeons is to treat them right, as far as food and minerals are concerned, test them on the road and select the best to breed from. Then, breed from the best, discard the rest and you can do very well with a very small number of birds.