John: Hey everybody it's time for Avian First Aid Episode 13. This is a continuation from the last episode Dr. Gordy will tell us how she extracts the egg.
Dr. Pam Gordy: Sometimes you can extract an egg manually and so what you can do in that situation is your egg is right here your colitis is right here. After you have your bird stabilized you can put just a little bit of pressure in this area with your thumbs pushing down and your fingers just preventing the egg from going from side to side and usually I will leave it three-four three seconds and then release. If you keep pressure on it all the time that's too painful for the bird and the pain might be too much for them so it's, you are like giving them contractions, do them for three seconds and then you release, two seconds and then you release and you should see progression of that egg I guess it drop down you should see little white circle you press the poeka around it and then as you do that inflammation, it shall open up and allow the egg to come out. If it's too dry then I take a cue tip that's moist in it's ceiling and I roll the poeka back along the edge to allow children up. Often once you get it started rolling it just opens and closes and that's the way it was arranged. Watch your bird when you are doing that, it's quite stressful for them and that bird is going to close their eyes and looking like she is really too horrible might not be not the best choice.
If I can manually extract an egg what or if I don't feel I should because I felt that it's so big that I don't think it's possible. Then the next option is to collapse the egg and the way to do that is to take fairly larger syringe and a fairly large needle and what you are going to do is you are going to poke inside the egg and you are going to suck out the contents of the egg and because egg white and the egg yolk is quite thick you can't choose the little needle because it won't go out through that. So it may look ugly and big but a big needle goes in and you suck out the contents of the egg, once the contents of the egg are removed then the shell will usually collapse quiet easily and that makes it small enough with that it can cast. The disadvantages of that is that occasionally sharp edges shell will cut the uterus, I have never found that happen but it can. Usually it doesn't because the shell collapses in once you have taken the contents of the egg out, once you collapse it then I don't immediately try and extract it, then I give them those calcium fluids and let it sit on themselves and usually they will pass it on their own, it can take anywhere from an hour to a day to come out but once the uterus isn't contracting around that big egg all the time then the birds can be relax. That, crunched up shell could sit in there for think my all time record was for a month before the bird passed it.
If that birds has uterine topology and so the shell was way too thick, it was like a reptile egg almost. Anyway it just came out a month later, but that makes the bird stable because they are not contracting against this egg all the time right, so and often the reason it doesn't come out is they have ecology somewhere else, maybe they have Hernia or the abdominal muscles aren't strong enough anymore, maybe they haven't laid too many eggs, they don't have enough calcium so if you do your support and care then often they can pass it on their own and thirdly and if you couldn't get an egg out would be doing a surgical cesarean and I have never seen this done except, I am lecturer, I went to there -- it was an extremely rare species of bird and they want to take the egg and incubate it to propagates this disease.
The prevention for Egg Binding is good nutrition when they, when they start laying egg they need to have supplemental calcium and pay attention to how many they lay, Cockatiels in particular tend to be really prolific egg layers and unable to lay more than they should. A normal clutch would or a normal amount of eggs for Cockatiels would be twelve in a year and they don't use it to one a month, they are used to a group, three-seven and then another group of three-seven. I had Cockatiels in my practice between 24 to 48 year. In those ones you can do things to make it less inviting for them to lay eggs, you can rearrange their cage so that they don't feel like it's a good safe area to have, to have eggs you can be a little bit careful with their nutrition with respect to not overfeeding them Cockatiels that have really an abundance of food are more like lay than once that are on normal diet, now it's overweight counter flame egg and there is also permanent injection that you can give to slow down the laying so that's the prevention for Egg Binding.
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