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what are the signs of being eggbound? HELP PLEASE

GLEGRI

GLEGRI

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I'm worried that my snake might be eggbound. she is really swollen she's super huge and one of my snakes that mated a week before her layed on Friday the 8th. any suggestions on what I should be thinking or do?
 
sorry the other snake mated the week after my possibly eggbound one and she layed on the 8th
 
Can you take a picture? Does she seem normal, or does she seem lethargic or "ill?" is she in her lay box? Does it seem like a huge egg is stuck at the opening, or is it just the time frame that has you worried?
 
she is in and out of her lay box and I'm real concerned about the timing what do you think?
 

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WOW!! Owwwww!! Man, im not expert...but that looks PAINFUL for her.. I'd say a vet visit ASAP...but again im not expert.
 
more pics of my snow
 

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I agree Vet would be the best thing... those look horribly abnormal. My snow lays big eggs but she never looks that distended. How much did she weight when u bred her?
 
Whoa!! Yeah she needs to go see a vet stat! That looks like shes got a ton in there!!! Good luck! I hope the sweetie does alright! She looks like she will be off the breeding list for a few years! Thats crazy!! D:
 
this is her first breeding she was my largest female. unfortunately this falls on a holiday weekend I guess I dropped the ball on this one. she is my favorite one. DAMN!!!
 
wow that's crazy...you can see each egg right thru her. some of mine have gotten pretty big where you can pretty easily feel the eggs, but even in my snow i couldn't SEE them. hoping for the best for her...it seems like there have been an unusual number of eggbound threads this year, and i even have one i'm starting to worry about.
 
My best advide! I am groing through this too!

Glegri:

Please do not take her to a regular bet. Call the retile shop and have them to recommend you somebody that knows about snake.

My experience is that I took her to one that I thought at least knew something and the bill was $192 for nothing. She was pushing for hospitalization to monitor her. I said I can do that at home and I do not want surgery for her. I prefer to let her go. Long story short I found and expert in reptiles...Dr. Rossi, he had written books and he is well known worldwide. My corn is right now under his care and he will do the Egg Aspiration technique. You can read more in other thread named "Eggbound.....video included? If needed they will inject Oxitocin or something like that to induce her to lay the rest of the eggs. The aspiration technique is that with a niddle they desinflate one or two eggs, she expulse them, and the others can go out easily. I am not going to pay more than $200 for the procedure, calcium, fluids, and other things. So, this is a vet that is not for the money but for the animals.

I agree, you have to do something for her right now...she is in deep pain but PLEASE DO NOT, DO NOT, DO NOT, take her to a regular vet.

Viragi
 
VIRAGI said:
Glegri:

Please do not take her to a regular bet. Call the retile shop and have them to recommend you somebody that knows about snake.

My experience is that I took her to one that I thought at least knew something and the bill was $192 for nothing. She was pushing for hospitalization to monitor her. I said I can do that at home and I do not want surgery for her. I prefer to let her go. Long story short I found and expert in reptiles...Dr. Rossi, he had written books and he is well known worldwide. My corn is right now under his care and he will do the Egg Aspiration technique. You can read more in other thread named "Eggbound.....video included? If needed they will inject Oxitocin or something like that to induce her to lay the rest of the eggs. The aspiration technique is that with a niddle they desinflate one or two eggs, she expulse them, and the others can go out easily. I am not going to pay more than $200 for the procedure, calcium, fluids, and other things. So, this is a vet that is not for the money but for the animals.

I agree, you have to do something for her right now...she is in deep pain but PLEASE DO NOT, DO NOT, DO NOT, take her to a regular vet.

Viragi
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I agree %100 percent. In my earlier post i said VET...I now realize not everyone would assume i meant A qualified reptile vet. Thats My fault.
 
Gegri:
Give us a status on your corn...did she make it through? mine didn't we had to put her to sleep as it was too late.

Viragi
 
That looks unusual, even for an eggboudn snake, with the eggs showing, yet swollen mass around it, that's at least what it looks like from the first pic. Was she chubby to begin with? Or did she go on eating and never pooped? It looks like there is dark mass in her surrounding the eggs in the first pic. I have read that food mass can obstruct laying.

In my snow eggs are a bit visible a few days before laying, but not like this. To be honest I don't think she has a chance if not operated on very soon by a very good specialized reptile vet. Even then it will be nasty... But I think you already realize that... I feel sorry for you and the female, maybe you'll find a way to help her out or at least relief her a bit. Without a vet available I would aspirate the first few visible, larger eggs myself to see what happens, but since they are not pushing at the vent I would not have high hopes. It would offer a bit of relief perhaps though.

If you can't see a vet in a couple of days you might better be humane if you are able to, you know what I mean. But that's only my gut feeling seeing this, I have lost females to less worse cases. Sorry if I upset someone saying this but right now I remember how it feels seeing a female suffer from this, it's horrible. I really would want to prevent a female from going through the next painful phases, if there is little chance for her to survive.
 
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