Auzzie: going blind?? Laying too many eggs...

[Pareeeee]

Hello
Auzzie is still having problems with laying wayyy too many eggs. She will go a couple months maybe without laying em, then she will stop eating, lay zillions of em and get REALLY REALLY skinny. (fat reserves GONE and little 'dents' in the top of her head where they should be) I have to force feed her because she won't eat and she gets so weak from not eating. When she has layed all her eggs (this can take months) she will finally start eating like mad. Without me having to coax her.

The other thing. With all this digging in her sand and now walnut-shell bedding, she keeps getting SO MUCH of it in her eyes. They are always watering and caked with bedding/sand fragments. I am constantly picking it off and washing her face. I have used saline solution to help clean her eyes and stave off any infection that may try to arise from this. Now, since she has started doing this, I think her vision is going bad. Maybe from all the sand and bedding getting in her eyes. She's going through a hungry phase again right now and I just put some food in her dish. She is so hungry. When I put food down she looks at it with one eye, then the next, back and forth and side to side trying to see it. She will lick it then look form side to side again. I also have to be careful now because she will bite my finger if I'm not careful - not out of fear or anger but because she thinks my moving hand is food.

What to do what to do. How to stop her from laying eggs???

 

[Sangheili]

Walnut shells are a big no-no. They are not digestible and can cause big intestinal problems, and eye problems from the sound of things.

I would move her to tile, reptile carpet, washed playsand or paper towels, ANYTHING but walnut shells. If she is laying eggs, she should probably be in a lay box. 1 part potting soil [NO fertilizer] to 1 part washed play sand to keep some humidity, but that's just the substrate I've read being in a lay box.

 

[Drache613]

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[Drache613]

Hello,

I honestly, would take her in to see the vet. This is hazardous to her health, if she is not recovering adequately from egg laying. If you do not intend to breed her, it might be a good option to have her spayed. That would really save her health, if she is having this type of problem. Otherwise, it will continue to drain her calcium & fat stores where she may not recover next time.
You should probably consider getting some Critical care for her, as well to help her with some weight gain. Are you giving her extra calcium, or liquid calcium to help her out right now?

Tracie