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So I found a few interesting stuff inside. The first one was the unbearable rotting smell. I am not sensitive to poop smells on a regular day but I had to wear a gas mask it was that bad. The second was the poop under the skin around the tail end and it was definitely swollen. On the picture it looks blue and when I opened it that wasn't blood, it was soft poop.
She had the expected salpingitis with small pieces of pussy tissue and small lash eggs, about the size of a quarter. Nothing that would cause excess pressure, however it could cause sepsis. There was no liquid pus.
The other thing is that there was poop in the egg duct coming from the cloaca end and ascending, and there was a fissure between the bowel and the oviduct. That's the most severe finding. Bowel rupture caused by necrosis from the fly strike, or from the resultant infection. The bowel was full, but I have seen that in food chickens after slaughter so I didn't think that was out of the ordinary. I found a few pebble size poop hard as a rock higher up closer to the liver, but they were not large enough to cause complete bowel obstruction.
This hen was 5 or 6 years old and came from an auction at 2-3 years old. She was with us for a little more than 2 years.
I took some pictures with my phone and I don't know if they are any good to see but I will post them from the phone when I go to bed.
She had the expected salpingitis with small pieces of pussy tissue and small lash eggs, about the size of a quarter. Nothing that would cause excess pressure, however it could cause sepsis. There was no liquid pus.
The other thing is that there was poop in the egg duct coming from the cloaca end and ascending, and there was a fissure between the bowel and the oviduct. That's the most severe finding. Bowel rupture caused by necrosis from the fly strike, or from the resultant infection. The bowel was full, but I have seen that in food chickens after slaughter so I didn't think that was out of the ordinary. I found a few pebble size poop hard as a rock higher up closer to the liver, but they were not large enough to cause complete bowel obstruction.
This hen was 5 or 6 years old and came from an auction at 2-3 years old. She was with us for a little more than 2 years.
I took some pictures with my phone and I don't know if they are any good to see but I will post them from the phone when I go to bed.
