Updated! - Test Your Diagnostic Skills - Warning, Contains Graphic Necropsy Photos

[casportpony]

Loll

???

-kathy

 

[tatertot]

???

Sorry didn't mean that...was trying to read thread and kids interrupted me.
I just started reading and its very informative

-kathy

 

[tatertot]

The LOL was for the first hen in your fridge...in the veggie drawer behind the baby carrots

 

[casportpony]

The LOL was for the first hen in your fridge...in the veggie drawer behind the baby carrots

Ah, okay.

-Kathy

 

[tatertot]

I finished the thread...question? Why did some of the birds have so much yellow fat?

 

[seminolewind]

She must feed them really well!

I had a chick pip once, and some already hatched chick rolled the egg over and the poor thing suffocated.

 

[casportpony]

I finished the thread...question? Why did some of the birds have so much yellow fat?

That's a good observation and I think that may be fatty liver syndrome, but I'm not positive.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

She must feed them really well!

I had a chick pip once, and some already hatched chick rolled the egg over and the poor thing suffocated.

Don't quote me on this, but I think all that fat is caused by eating too much grain and not enough protein... I've had a couple that look like that and they felt greasy during the necropsy.

I hate is when that happens to chicks, I've had the hens to that to them.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

I just found a hen... Black Sex Link. 5 or 6 years old, possibly vaccinated for Marek's, but I'm not positive. Thin, poopy butt, full crop and her cloacal exam revealed many lumps in places they shouldn't be. Of course she's inside now, nice and warm so I will tube some fluids to her to see if that will help clear her crop, but I suspect that she has some sort of obstruction and/or the dying process has started.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Here's one with fatty liver syndrome:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...-warning-graphic-autopsy-photos#post_13273472

-Kathy