*Good Update Post #79*Biscuit seems to be having trouble breathing

[Kathie]

Keeping Biscuit and you in my thoughts and prayers for a speedy recovery, Kacy

 

[Skyler]

Oh poor baby. Biscuit and you are in my prayers.

 

[snackies]

poor lil' biscuit! I hope biscuit feels better very soon. Lola & Mimi are sending some birdy get well soon wishes too!

 

[Birdiemarie]

I hope she passes the egg fast and will be back home with you very soon,

 

[suileeka]

Oh, Biscuit! I hope the injections help to keep this problem at bay in the future.

 

[Annamacaw]

Sending up more prayers for the little Biscuit! Those darn eggs! Hopefully once it passes she will be all better!!!

 

[Meatball]

thinking of you and Biscuit, I hope she is home with you tomorrow

 

[Shade]

Hoping the egg goes through fine!

 

[lotus15]

Oh no! I am hoping that everything is okay and that she passes the egg just fine. Lots of positive thoughts and prayers for you and Biscuit!!!

 

[marian]

Lots of thoughts for you all kacy

 

[Brigidt36]

Sending prayers!!!


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[lzver]

Sending hugs for you and Biscuit

 

[webchirp]

Ok update from the vet:

Biscuit has another soft shelled egg in her, though it hasn't reached egg binding emergency level like last time. But the vet feels her body was riled up and stressed trying to pass this egg. Her lungs looked fine on the xray. Thank goodness. And nothing contagious! PHEW!

So...she's pretty sure it's that. They gave her calcium, some meds to pass the egg, and she's in an incubator. The vet said her bones have changed to those of chronic egg layers...so it appears this isn't going away. The vet wants to put her on indefinite Lupron. After the last emergency I decided not to do it, but now I'm going to. I can't risk her dying, or keep these emergency vet visits up.

The vet said she thinks Biscuit should be ok to go home in the morning.

So I'm really hoping the breathing trouble was just the egg!

There is some type of implant as well. I was thinking about that for the female tiel. I feel for you on these egg laying chickpeas of ours! So glad it's something fixable and hopefully the lupron will hinder future eggs.

 

[Chantilly Lace]

I am so sorry about Biscuit, she will be in my thoughts and prayers. See this egg binding stuff freaked me out, that is why we opted for boys!

 

[Birdiemarie]

Hope Biscuit is doing well this morning.

 

[Nikki]

Just checking in to see how Biscuit is doing.

 

[chompie_puppy]

Wow, I'm only just catching up on this thread!

Glad you got Biscuit to the vet and that they are looking after her!

I can't tell you how similar Biscuit's story is to Monster's story last week (Monster is my Budgie). We were going to opt for a Suprelorin implant to completely stop any future egg incidents as this is also Monster's second eggbinding problem in the last month. After the x-rays and contrast x-ray study we found that Monster has... complications though, so unfortunately she is no longer a candidate for the implant.

Have you discussed the implant with your vet? They last for 9-12 months and my vet has placed them in birds as small as Budgies with great results. My Dende (who is 85g) has the implant and she is doing very well!

My vet showed me the series of x-rays and she also pointed out that Monster's bones have started to become very dense because they are absorbing as much calcium out of the body as possible. This is the sign of a bird that has been in breeding condition for a long time (or chronic egg layers), which makes them more susceptible to eggbinding. I'm just mentioning it because you said your vet mentioned Biscuit's bones as well. I'd never even heard of this until yesterday when I went to the vet for Monster's follow-up vet visit.

I'll keep Biscuit in my thoughts! Come on little girl! We all want you to get better quickly!

 

[suncoast]

Many prayers for Biscuit to not have any problems getting rid of the egg and getting better. Prayers that the Lupron works.

Ginger

 

[Greycloud]

Thinking of little Biscuit! I hope she is doing better and is soon home!

 

[Gen120]

I'm so glad you were able to get her to the vet quickly! How is she doing this afternoon?