Normally you can catch it in broilers before it happens. Signs are labored breathing, panting hard, and lazyness. It's typically found in overfed broilers and broilers that have lived past their expiration date.
When you see this you need to restrict the feed and turn the lights out. Let them...
This will help you better understand. Ascitis is the fluid in the cavity leaking from the liver. Both heart attacks and ascitis will cause your bird to have the fluid, either way the bottom line is the fluid in the body cavity restricts the blood flow to the heart and depriving the rest of the...
When you say oil are you talking like a thick motor oil consistancy?
Or just a fluid? What I'm getting from your description it was a fluid, probably a yellowish color? If this is the case it was a heart attack in progress. If you would have waited any longer it pobably would have flipped.
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