Egg Bound

[BOND111]

I have a young bird that became egg bound.Eventually she passed the eggs.But it left her insides hanging out,which I pushed back in and hoped for the best.After losing some weight,she is back eating,although her dropping are like water.I would normally not bother,but out of sixty young birds bred ,she is the best.Has anyone got any suggestions.

[Guest shadow]

I have a young bird that became egg bound.Eventually she passed the eggs.But it left her insides hanging out,which I pushed back in and hoped for the best.After losing some weight,she is back eating,although her dropping are like water.I would normally not bother,but out of sixty young birds bred ,she is the best.Has anyone got any suggestions.

must be something wrong take it to a vet or dispose of it will happen again

[Guest IB]

I had a hen, not a YB, that had similar bother, though her 'egg works' didn't come outside, the two eggs were in the oviduct at the same time, the 2nd pushed the 1st out which she laid in the nest and the 2nd was laid later on the section floor. The 2nd was mis-shapen at one end (where it had been resting against the 2nd egg) and that little mis-shapen part had no shell covering on it, just dimpled membrane.

 

The reason I'm posting on your bird is her 'watery' dropping. It may not be urine but fluid leaking from a damaged oviduct. My hen's back end was wet, and the fluid smelled different. I reckoned that was her finished, as even if the damage came good, likely to happen again, and I culled her. Check your hen's back end, if feathers are wet there, it may be the same problem.

[Wiley]

you say you pushed it back up, but how did you push it back up, if you get what i mean? I've known people to do this in the luke warm water and hens have then gone on to lay again. however i do not like the sound of the watery droppings.

[BOND111]

you say you pushed it back up, but how did you push it back up, if you get what i mean? I've known people to do this in the luke warm water and hens have then gone on to lay again. however i do not like the sound of the watery droppings.

Yes it was as horrible as it sounds.I could see this mass of blood and what I thought was an egg.So I put it under a warm tap,and realized it was the membrane of an egg which I removed,to leave a egg size fleshy bit that was pulsing.I gently pushed it back in with my thumb.She is moving about freely and feeding.But has the squirts,I thought about electrolytes but wasn't sure if it would make things worse.I didn't want to go down the route of antibiotics if I could help It.Is there any thing that would firm the droppings to give her a fighting chance.

[billt]

Thats a prolapse, it happens in most livestock, I would leave her to recover and not let her lay again for as long as possible, you might get away with it, I don't think there is anything you can do other than give her time

[BOND111]

Thats a prolapse, it happens in most livestock, I would leave her to recover and not let her lay again for as long as possible, you might get away with it, I don't think there is anything you can do other than give her time

Thanks for that.Would you give any electrolytes to stop her getting dehydrated.

[billt]

Thanks for that.Would you give any electrolytes to stop her getting dehydrated.

No , I would let her go it alone, I've kept a lot of various livestock over the years and the recovery ability of pigeons is second to none, time is a great healer

[BOND111]

No , I would let her go it alone, I've kept a lot of various livestock over the years and the recovery ability of pigeons is second to none, time is a great healer

Thank you for your advice.Most appreciated.

[Guest wattle]

the problem is you did,nt push it up far enough, get some vasaline and put it on your little finger and push in the full lenght of your finger she should come right after a while,

[Guest IB]

the problem is you did,nt push it up far enough, get some vasaline and put it on your little finger and push in the full lenght of your finger she should come right after a while,

 

I'm sorry but I cannot agree with that. How can you tell that your finger is pushing whatever this is back to where it belongs? There are 3 openings up there - one to the gut, one to the kidneys and one to the oviduct. IMO the bird needs to taken to a an avian vet.