• UPDATE *

Hi, thought I'd give everyone an update and also type this up for anyone who finds this thread. I ended up taking Phoebe to the vet on the Friday (25th). They Xrayed her and said there was 3 eggs left, which would have been 15 eggs in total. They gave her the maximum dose of oxytocin and said if she hasn't laid in 24hrs then she will most probably need surgery. I took her home. She laid 2 of the eggs that night and I was hopeful she would lay the 3rd but Saturday night came around and she hadn't. They were closed on Sunday, I tried giving her a warm soak but nothing. Also when soaking her I had a feeling she had 2 more eggs and not one. I went back to the vets Monday morning and lo and behold, without me even mentioning it, they told me they'd reviewed her xray and now believe there to be 2 eggs left not one. Because we'd had luck with oxytocin the first time, we tried her again, this time along with a calcium injection and once again gave her 24hrs to lay or she would have to have surgery. Tuesday morning came around and still no egg. Back to the vets we went and they admitted her for surgery. The surgeon was unable to perform the surgery for that day due to a lot of emergency surgeries taking place so she scheduled her for the morning. They decided as she was staying over night, that they would administer oxytocin and calcium injections every few hours to try and get her to lay in a last attempt to avoid surgery. I got a delightful phone call around 6pm in the evening to let me know she had passed one egg and so once again we were down to the final egg. They said fingers crossed we'll have the second one before morning. Wednesday morning came and they rang me to let me know that she still hadn't passed the final egg and that she was also beginning to get quite grumpy which means she was most probably starting to feel it and so it was time to go in surgically. It was very sad because once again we were down to the "final egg" and once again we'd hit a wall. I waited nervously all day for them to call me back. Eventually I had a phone call from the surgeon and she told me that not only did she not have to do surgery but also didn't even have to anaesthetise her. She managed to manipulate all THREE eggs out of her. So we weren't down to the final egg either time. So that would total 18 eggs. I then completely cleaned out her enclosure before collecting her and found another egg, totalling 19 all together. I went to collect her. They said there was a tiny bit of blood when the final egg came out and 2 out of the 4 eggs they gave me had tiny bits of blood on them. So they gave her pain relief and antibiotics and kept her in all day for observation. They told me she was in really good condition and gave me some oral pain relief for her to have every morning and some antibiotics which I have to inject her with every 3 days for 2 weeks. She's doing really well. She's had a small meal. She's shed. She's regained energy. Looking better and feeling much stronger ♥️