Jingle Bells
Jingle Bells, Batman smells, TOONY laid an egg!
Last week Petunia went to the vet. Her blood work came back normal except for high calcium, which meant she should be laying eggs. But she wasn’t laying eggs. If she didn’t lay an egg in the next few days, it could have meant she had trouble with her eggs.
Petunia had not laid an egg as of last night, so I called the good x-ray clinic to take her over for x-rays. They would not see her until her normal vet requested “x-rays only” as they wanted to see her charts and verify she really had seen a vet (or truly… they really wanted to charge me to examine her, too).
That turned out to be good, as she laid an egg this morning. It was a little odd-shaped and a little thin on the shell, so it’s possible it was giving her trouble. Hopefully tomorrow we’ll have another egg and she’ll be just fine.
Good duck, Petunia.
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Tiffany, Will you try for some ducklings?
Whew! I bet Toony is relieved… egg binding probably feels like constipation…
Vikari – No no. We don’t hatch ducklings. There are too many unwanted animals in the world already. Are you in Latvia? That’s very cool!
Hooray Petunia!
yaaaay! congratulations toonie!!!
Congratulations Toonie! I hope you are successful tomorrow as well!
Hooray for Toony!
Horray! (I’m with Pansy, too!)
Was this her first egg ever?
Yay, TooToo!
I’m still perplexed by the reference to the “good” x-ray clinic. Is there an evil clinic somewhere?
Congrats, Tooney! ^_^
Happy eggs are here again!!!!
Dawn: Most exotic pet vets don’t have BIG x-ray equipment. The two I know of have dental x-ray machines, which are just perfect for little birds, parrots, guinea pigs, lizards, hamsters, etc. Anything larger than an amazon parrot really doesn’t show on an 8″ diameter x-ray. So last time Flapper had a bunch of these little dental x-rays and they thought it looked like he had a growth or mass, because they were seeing bits of him at a time and trying to piece it together. They were going to biopsy to see what the mass was. A nice, big clear x-ray showed it was nothing abnormal. So we don’t do little tiny x-rays anymore.
Emergency vet clinics that treat mostly cats & dogs tend to have larger, better x-ray equipment. They can take awesome x-rays of a complete duck all at once. Less radiation exposure and much, much clearer image. There’s a great ER animal clinic less than 2-miles from my house and I can get ducks x-ray’d there 24-hours a day.
Meg: Not her first egg ever, just an egg we were waiting for, since she hadn’t been feeling well.
I’ve been worried about pretty Petunia all week… I’m glad she finally laid that silly egg! Hopefully the others will come with ease.
Thanks for the explanation, Tiff.
But is the large x-ray machine large enough for the pterodactyl?
What a joy to have found that egg. This is very exciting. It must be spring for sure. The sun is shining awesomely with blue sky in the Puget Sound. It must be spring.
yay! go Petunia!