Hi all .. Please help me ... I have a budgie hen who lay a egg approx 1 month ago. Last 2 weeks, I saw a egg protruding in the vent and she's seems to be panting heavily. I bought her to the vet and confirmed that she's egg bound as the egg shell is too soft to be expel. The vet prescribe me with "Gluconate w/v Calcium in liquid form & a bottle of powder" Critical Care for Herbivores ". Gosh that already cost me $ 150.
Basically, a week have already passed. She eats only those normal Millets As for those mixed seeds whereby I sprinkled the powder have a pungent smell. (She refuse to eat it). As for the calcium liquid, I added it in the drinking water which she seldom drink too. I called the Vet and he instructed me to force feed & drink to the budgie as the body is getting weak hence produce a hard shell egg
I tried to force feed her but each time when my hand goes in the cage. She will be shriek non-stop and get so stressed out. .. There's nothing much I can do to help her. The sight of her almost half-dead really break my heart ..... Now she only stand in a one corner, fighting hard to keep her eyes open. (Barely open).
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I can't afford to bring her to the vet anymore as it is simply too costly ...
Please advise what should I do??? Is there any other way as she stop eating now and I do not want to
force feed her as she is simply too stress and also I am afraid of hurting her while grabbing her.
Should I just leave her in peace till the day she pass away as I doubt she's gonna to make it. Sob sob ..
The vet overcharged you for a start and all you needed was the calcium gluconate.
If I have an eggbound female she gets the calcium by crop tube directly into her crop and goes into a small cage with warm lamp right next to her. Within a day she has passed the egg.
These are the things we do once we become knowledgable bird owners, and experienced bird keepers. You do what you have to to save your birds.
Next time you go to a vet ask to be taught how to crop feed and you will save birds of yours that would die without that vital piece of knowledge.
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Now she is dying.
But be very aware she was able to be saved with the right advice and the right method.
Also try this to help your budgie expel her egg that is stuck.
Get a bowl of warm water and place your budgie's vent in it. Try to then press down the egg outward. With any luck, the egg might actually slip out of her.
- PA
Have you tried smearing some some olive oil or other non toxic oily substance over her vent area? If not try it, it may help.
Keeping your hen in a warm environment can also help her muscles relax so she can expel the egg. Just keep offering her food and water as the vet has suggested. There is little more you can do as she is most likely in some pain and food wouldn't interest her very much. Just try.
Good luck.
