Answer found! Graphic Photos of Necropsy

[The Phantom]

I'm so sorry!

 

[dawg53]

I'd rather have a bird die from hardware disease than from Marek's disease. Goes to show you that all birds dont have Marek's disease every time something is wrong.
I'm sorry for your loss

 

[casportpony]

A friend of mine brought me her sick peahen and the first thing I assumed was worms, coccidiosis, the dreaded blackhead, or a bacterial infection. Boy was I wrong, it was hardware disease.

About six months later another got sick, this time I was not as quick to assume as I did before. I treated the second the same as the first, but it died, and the necropsy revealed another with hardware disease.

I have pictures if anyone is interested.

 

[007Sean]

Sorry for your loss, at least you found what the cause was for the illness.

 

[MissChick@dee]

A friend of mine brought me her sick peahen and the first thing I assumed was worms, coccidiosis, the dreaded blackhead, or a bacterial infection. Boy was I wrong, it was hardware disease.

About six months later another got sick, this time I was not as quick to assume as I did before. I treated the second the same as the first, but it died, and the necropsy revealed another with hardware disease.

I have pictures if anyone is interested.

Yes please post the pic’s. We love to learn

 

[wild chick]

Yes, @casportpony more hardware disease can be added to this thread! Thank you all for your kind thoughts. Any thoughts on that crooked neck? This is the 2nd one from a hatchery (two different hatcheries, 2 years apart) with a neck like that. The other was a cockerel from our first straight run order. It doesn't seem to be a problem in itself, but the others that we butchered didn't look like this. The spinal bone in this neck section does not straighten out. Is this a common anomaly?

 

[casportpony]

Regarding the neck, I have seen a strange almost scoliosis in ducks and peafowl, so maybe it was something like that?

 

[casportpony]

This I found in the proventriculus of my friend's peahen, ruptured of course, though that was not the cause of death.

Here it is next to a quarter for size comparison:

This was the cause of death:

This was the the growth on the gizzard:

This needle was inside the growth.

 

[WVduckchick]

So sorry for your loss.
I assumed the crook in the neck was a result of the nail being lodged?

I keep finding glass throughout my yard. Broken pieces of glass. I think every time it rains, more pieces come to the surface.

 

[MissChick@dee]

This I found in the proventriculus of my friend's peahen, ruptured of course, though that was not the cause of death.
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Here it is next to a quarter for size comparison:
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Yikes!!