So we have had a Brahma who is about 8 months old acting off for the past few weeks. She started keeping to herself and standing around with her eyes closed. Went off food and progressively got worse. I have Marek’s in my flock and assumed she had some sort of cancer, my main reason for suspecting this is she had occular Marek’s too. I gave her amoxicillin on an off chance she had an infection as well as tube fed her. Nothing seemed to work and she steadily declined. I ended up culling her today and did a very crude necropsy with my husbands help. This is the second one I’ve done and the first one was really obvious on the cause. Really not sure what her issue was even after cutting her open. Below are some pictures.
Her intestines to me look off but like I said I’m familiar with what I’m looking at. We looked at some pics of the chicken anatomy while we are doing this. Also in her cavity once the organs were removed there appeared to be bumps, not sure if those are some time of deposit or something else.
Any suggestions or anything that can be pointed out is greatly appreciated. I’m eager to learn.
Sorry for the lack of pics and the poor quality but it’s all that was taken.
Her intestines to me look off but like I said I’m familiar with what I’m looking at. We looked at some pics of the chicken anatomy while we are doing this. Also in her cavity once the organs were removed there appeared to be bumps, not sure if those are some time of deposit or something else.
Any suggestions or anything that can be pointed out is greatly appreciated. I’m eager to learn.
Sorry for the lack of pics and the poor quality but it’s all that was taken.