by baven » Sat May 06, 2017 2:56 pm
I have good news.
I managed to get her in to a vet specialized in collapsing the egg, and it turns out the reason she couldn't pass it was because it formed about 3 times bigger than normal eggs. Insane.
They couldn't remove the broken down shell from her just yet, but because it's significantly smaller they have no worries that it'll finally pass. She's still loopy from the procedure as well as the pain killers administered, but once she moves past that I'll be doing everything I can to encourage her to pass the remnants.
That is, if she tries pushing. I have her in a hot, humid room, but she's exhausted from the anesthetic. We injected oxytocin (I believe) in her to help with contractions but if she's too tired, I worry that she won't even try to push.
If she doesn't by Tuesday, she'll have to go in for a surgery, which is threatening by itself. Hopefully, that won't have to happen, but if it does we might have to get her spayed as well to prevent this from ever happening again. I've read spaying can be dangerous but at the same time this has been a very expensive past few days and I don't think I'd be able to help her if egg binding would be the case for every egg afterwards.
The vets said she could be prone to forming irregularly sized eggs, which would be horrible.
So, that brings up another question- how safe is spaying for birds, if this would have to be the case?