Can chickens have cancer?

[Avalon1984]

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Thank you stoopid and no worries. I have built up quite the frustration resistance over the years. I have many things to be grateful for so something like that does not affect me as much as it used to. It will get better, it always does

 

[seminolewind]

Sorry about your horses, I have one, too.

I think chickens are more prone to die from cancer, tumors, heart failure, etc. because for years, all they were bred for is increased production. Now days, we chicken owners give them a longer life.

 

[CMV]

That blue wart was an ingrown feather. Your description is spot on. As soon as you said "blue-ish, like a wart" I knew immediately what you were describing. Sorry to say that the growth likely had nothing to do with the chicken's death.

I had a bird with a big one this summer. I lanced the growth and pulled a nearly full sized feather from under the bird's skin. I wanted to take a pic, but the bird was not cooperating. Now I really wish I had taken that pic.

Sorry for your loss.

 

[Avalon1984]

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Hey CMV,

Thank you. That was very informative. I ran out of time (and daylight) to do a necropsy but hopefully this was an isolated incident. I checked everybody in the same house yesterday and they all looked fine and perky. This was a smaller chicken, maybe it had something wrong with it from the start. Oh well.

 

[Avalon1984]

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But the poor thing was only 5 months old

Like I said, it was on the smaller side. More than likely it did have something wrong with it and somehow I just didn't catch it. I think my oldest hens right now are going on 24 months so we'll see what other "adventures" will await me.

 

[burmarosa]

I've been reading all the posts that I can find on cancer in hens. I just had a BR die and on exam, the vet thought she felt a mass. We didn't do a necropsy because the clinic was very busy at the time and the lice and mites were crawling off of her onto us. We were in a hurry to get her into a plastic bag and get those nasty critters out to the garbage. My daughter asked me "If a hen has cancer and we eat the eggs, can we get cancer?" I didn't think so but thought I'd throw the question out there and see what replies I get.

 

[MerrittFarmer]

I have a Barred Rock whose eyes are droopy. She also has a bald-ish head. The other B.R doesn't have anything like this. Is that normal?????????

 

[iowahenmom]

My Rhode Island Red died today. She had a huge tumor around her crop. Some food was passing and she was still alert and eating but the tumor was just getting bigger. So i had her put to sleep so she wouldn't wind up slowly starving to death, plus if the tumor busted in the run the other hens would go into a frenzy on the blood. Still is very sad. Her crop was rock hard and growing. The vet asperated it and studied the cells. We made sure it wasn't an impacted crop.

 

[Picollo]

Hello Everyone - I just returned from an appointment with the vet concerning my Road Island Red hen who looked poorly last Friday. After her exam, she felt, due to fluid in her chest, and lumps in her chest area that the hen had cancer and I should put her down.

Four years ago, I purchased 12 chic's from Coastal Feed Store and since then I have lost one to a heart problem and four to cancer.

Has anyone else experience a 50% lost of hens in four years due to cancer. And, does fluid in the chest and lumps in her chest area always mean cancer?

My hens are beautiful and look very healthy - for me euthanizing my hens is a heart breaking experience for me.

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