[tikileahsmom]

Hi, I got my quakers results back this evening and everything looked good except her phosphorus which is high. It either means she's producing an egg or could be early stages of kidney disease or just a fluke. We'll restest her in a couple weeks. I took her is yesturday to the vet as she just wasn't herself. The vets thoughts were hormones or her picking up on my stress. Honestly it scares me to think she might be producing an egg. I've taken everything out of her diet
except a mixture of pellets of her choice and fresh fruits and veggies and she can have cooked whole wheat pasta. She's been on quite a mix of foods and it could be she doesn't handle protein well so no more oats, nutriberries. the vet said wheat and rye is fine though. We're going to try this for a while and see what her levels do. Her uric acid was actually on the low side which the vet said was really good. Anyone have any thoughts on this? Like how a bird behaves if she's plans on laying an egg. I've had birds for years and have 12 now. I've never had one lay an egg rxcept for those little finches. Don't like the idea at all
Thanks
tikileahsmom

[Quincy's Slave]

I hope that everything turns out well, perhaps she is just really working on an egg

[Quakermom]

aww hugs to you hope your little one gets all better and pops an egg out really quick.

[Andie's Mom]

I suggest cutting her day light hours down to more than 12 hrs a day. Watching high protein things and that's about all you can do unless you have the vet give her shots...But I'd recommend doing everything else first...and of course as you know, keeping lots of calcium in her diet, cuttlebone etc.

[tikileahsmom]

It's interesting as her calcium level is normal. It's 8.6 with the range being 7.6-12.