When to give 2nd injection of Oxytocin?

[danduc]

My red-foot was administered Oxytocin yesterday and layed 4 of her 5 calcified eggs. What about the last one she is still retaining? When to administer the second injection of Oxytocin? And should we do another X-ray just to make sure it did not break inside?

She looks fine and eating this morning.

Thanks a lot

Dan

 

[tortadise]

If its broken it will pass. Oxytocin can be pretty harsh but helps in situations like yours. Give it some time and if she starts becoming sluggish again then administer another injection. Glad she passed them.

 

[danduc]

If its broken it will pass. Oxytocin can be pretty harsh but helps in situations like yours. Give it some time and if she starts becoming sluggish again then administer another injection. Glad she passed them.

My red-foot doing fine. Eating ( 1/4 banana and some strawberry sprinkle with calcium). Went to the vet today to do another X-Ray and the 5th egg is still intact. I will wait another week before going back for another injection. Here are the x-ray photos before and after. I anybody want the info, I have the dosage of oxytocin and calcium. BTW, the eggs weighted 50gr ea. (total, 200 gr or close to 1/2 lbs. I was very suprised to notice that althougt the eggs looked very calcified, it is not the case. One egg broke during transportation to the vet and there is a nice yolk inside (more orange than a chicken egg). The shell is quite thin (again similar to a chicken egg).

http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/...Turtoise/X-Rayegg13Feb2013-01_zpsc072d53a.jpg

http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/...Turtoise/X-Rayegg17Feb2013-01_zpsc0904dd0.jpg