The 4 diseases I mentioned are those that cause lesions, tumors and gray or yellow nodules in the liver in mature birds.
Good point. I should try to make contact. I met the family on a ski holiday in Austria many years ago. The grown children met my wife and I on another ski holiday several...
400-1000 is very expensive. Is that at a veterinarian or the Danish Poultry Lab?
A complete necropsy is about $80 at the state poultry lab here in Missouri. A vet would be hundreds. They're free in California. You wouldn't need a whole necropsy, just the tissue sample read.
We can get that done...
It has nothing to do with the genetic engineering. There is a disease involved.
Lymphoid Leukosis, Marek's and Pullorum can sometimes have no other symptoms. TB usually does but is associated with birds over 2 years of age.
There's no known human health risk from LL or Marek's.
If Pullorum or...
Those are amazing pictures. Thanks for posting and noting that they were otherwise healthy.
I would probably call those lesions and the cause may be (in my limited veterinary/diagnostic knowledge) in order of likelihood, Lymphoid Leukosis, Marek's, Pullorum, Tuberculosis.
I hope someone knows...