Kali
lost cause
I don't think there is, but I don't know everything, so I thought I'd just ask. Is there any way to avoid that a female lays a clutch of infertile eggs?
To make the situation clear: it started with my MBK (I know, not a corn, but I'm coming to that). Last year after a few successfull matings, she became gravid. She layed two infertile eggs, and then stopped laying.
The vet injected her (with oxytocine? is that it? I forgot), but that didn't work and after a while he had to cut her open to get the rest. One egg ruptured inside her so he cleaned her insides and took out another three fertile eggs (that went bad afterwords unfortunately). She healed well after that I'm happy to say.
This year she didn't mate, but formed eggs anyway. And yes, one was layed (a really long one, I think it was two fused together) and she stopped. The vet had to cut her open again. She came through it nicely again, and is healing now.
Then my female corn, who had bred for me four years now without problems, layed a clutch of infertile eggs (didn't breed her this year) and yes, then stopped laying, I can feel three more inside her, one quite high up. So tomorrow it's off to the vet again, hoping he won't have to cut her open also!
So if anybody knows any way I can prevent unbred females from forming eggs, please tell me! They're getting themselves in a lot of trouble. The costs are rising (be that a less important aspect for me but still) and I don't want to lose them if a surgery goes wrong.
I've never heard of such a way, apart from keeping them away from males...
To make the situation clear: it started with my MBK (I know, not a corn, but I'm coming to that). Last year after a few successfull matings, she became gravid. She layed two infertile eggs, and then stopped laying.
The vet injected her (with oxytocine? is that it? I forgot), but that didn't work and after a while he had to cut her open to get the rest. One egg ruptured inside her so he cleaned her insides and took out another three fertile eggs (that went bad afterwords unfortunately). She healed well after that I'm happy to say.
This year she didn't mate, but formed eggs anyway. And yes, one was layed (a really long one, I think it was two fused together) and she stopped. The vet had to cut her open again. She came through it nicely again, and is healing now.
Then my female corn, who had bred for me four years now without problems, layed a clutch of infertile eggs (didn't breed her this year) and yes, then stopped laying, I can feel three more inside her, one quite high up. So tomorrow it's off to the vet again, hoping he won't have to cut her open also!
So if anybody knows any way I can prevent unbred females from forming eggs, please tell me! They're getting themselves in a lot of trouble. The costs are rising (be that a less important aspect for me but still) and I don't want to lose them if a surgery goes wrong.
I've never heard of such a way, apart from keeping them away from males...