Blackhead poo?

[casportpony]

How is your turkey?

-Kathy

 

[KsKingBee]

Poor Salt has passed on. She was gone this morning. We had done all we could for her but I guess it just wasn't enough. Thanks for all your help.

 

[casportpony]

Sorry for your loss.

Will you be doing a necropsy? Doing one will very quickly tell you if it was blackhead.

-Kathy

 

[KsKingBee]

We want to but we don't know what we are doing. I have cleaned a lot of birds for eating and the innards always look the same, just a big jumbled up mess of stuff. I can identify the heart, gizzard, maybe a couple of other things but if one were bad I wouldn't know.

 

[casportpony]

We want to but we don't know what we are doing. I have cleaned a lot of birds for eating and the innards always look the same, just a big jumbled up mess of stuff. I can identify the heart, gizzard, maybe a couple of other things but if one were bad I wouldn't know.

You should be able to tell by looking at the liver and cecal pouches. This picture is proof positive that the bird died from blackhead:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/858076/lightbox/post/12926311/id/6033286

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

This shows coccidiosis in the cecal pouch:
http://www.becauseitworks.ca/Sub-clinical.html

-Kathy

 

[KsKingBee]

Sorry for your loss.

Will you be doing a necropsy? Doing one will very quickly tell you if it was blackhead.

-Kathy

Well we did our best to do a necropsy. We did find some light colored spots on the livers, didn't find the cecal pouches like in your pictures. We determined that we killed her. When opening her up we found a hole in the esophagus, we think we punctured it while trying to feed her and the feed went into the body cavity instead of down the gullet. She was showing improvement until we started trying to feed her.

 

[casportpony]

So sorry for your loss, I know you really tried! The spots on the liver would be enough to convince me that it was blackhead. The cecal pouches I posted were from a bird (not mine) that had been sick for a very long time, so I'm not surprised that you didn't see those. I'm puzzled by the torn esophagus... What where you using for feeding?

-Kathy

 

[KsKingBee]

We did not have any surgical tubing so we used a plastic tubing. We plan on getting some of the soft tubing when we go to town next. We will post pictures of the liver tonight.