please send kiwi good thoughts tomorrow

Good luck Em! I hope she comes through fine!

thanks all! i don't know if the eggs are all fertile or not. i will take a look tonight when i get kiwi home and settled in and see how they look. after all she had to go through i really hope some of them are fertile.

Yeah that would be nice to have some babies from her last clutch. I hope she has a speedy recovery, and I am sure you will spoil her rotten :D

yay for kiwi!!!

well, kiwi is home and settling in although i'm not sure settled is what she wants to be. i tried to convince her to rest but she's not been too keen on that idea. she is a lot more alert and active than i thought she would be, especially considering that most of her belly had to be opened up and then stitched back together.

what the vet actually found during the surgery was a bit surprising. prior to surgery i could feel 5 eggs inside of her but i suspected there were 6 but the 6th was just too high and between her ribs where i couldn't really feel it well enough to be sure. the vet removed 2 eggs that had dried and fused together, blocking kiwi's pelvis and not allowing any other eggs to pass. he removed 6 eggs that were not dried up and still moist and somewhat viable looking. then he removed about 12 tiny dried eggs that were about the size of BBs. he said it looked like she had gone through several breeding seasons producing those small, infertile eggs and that they had just dried up and stayed in her, however kiwi is only a year and a half old and this was her first breeding season so we aren't really sure why so many of them were in her or how she even managed to ovulate that many times.

i asked the vet remove her uterus and ovaries in order to avoid further complication and he agreed that that would likely be best. the eggs that were saved don't look like crested eggs at all. two are very round instead of oval and others are odd roundish shapes. they are all yellow and don't really have a shell but they are somewhat solid on the outside. i candled them and could see one vein in one of them, but none look like anything i've really ever seen. i have them incubating but unless they change dramatically in the next few days i'm not expecting anything to hatch out of them.

Wow Emily, poor little Kiwi having all that mess of eggs inside her. I'm sure she'll feel better now and hopefully have a troublefree recovery.

Awwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!! Poooooor baby! :oops: Your the bestest gecko mom to get her all fixed up! I'm sure Kiwi makes a full recovery!

I'm glad that kiwi seems to be doing fine for the moment, I hope she continues and heals up nicely. Sounds like a pretty interesting situation you found, I wonder whatt could have caused it as well....

Poor little Kiwi! Can you imagine having all that building up inside of you??? Even recovering from the surgery, she must feel SO much better already!

Glad to hear she is back home now. I bet she is back to normal in no time.

You are awesome Emily :)

The egg thing is pretty interesting, so she is altered right? For lack of a better way to explain it.

I didn't know they could do that to a gecko.