Dead Hen with Large Abdominal Tumor Like Cooked Meat

[KCAmelia]

Hello, I just wanted to post this because I am not finding anything about it here or anywhere online. I have a 3 yo Golden Comet hen who I noticed was waddling with a very heavy abdomen. Suspected egg bound, but gave calcium and epsom salt soaks but no improvement. Still eating and drinking, mostly sitting, watery green poop, some straining to breathe. Lived a week longer. Then she died. When I opened her up, she had a large mass of what looked like cooked meat in her abdomen. Really gross. Like a cooked chicken breast but way bigger. Layer after layer. I was expecting eggs. Any thoughts on what happened to her? Reproductive? Just a tumor? It was such a weird consistency.

 

[Shezadandy]

Could it have been a "lash egg"?
Did you take any photos?

 

[A_Fowl_Guy]

@casportpony

 

[casportpony]

Sorry for your loss. Sounds like a reproductive tract infection. Do you have pictures?

 

[SurferchickinSB]

Hello, I just wanted to post this because I am not finding anything about it here or anywhere online. I have a 3 yo Golden Comet hen who I noticed was waddling with a very heavy abdomen. Suspected egg bound, but gave calcium and epsom salt soaks but no improvement. Still eating and drinking, mostly sitting, watery green poop, some straining to breathe. Lived a week longer. Then she died. When I opened her up, she had a large mass of what looked like cooked meat in her abdomen. Really gross. Like a cooked chicken breast but way bigger. Layer after layer. I was expecting eggs. Any thoughts on what happened to her? Reproductive? Just a tumor? It was such a weird consistency.

Sounds like a lash egg. Google it and look at the photos of what one looks like

 

[casportpony]

Lash egg = salpingitis = reproductive tract infection.

 

[KCAmelia]

Ah, that sounds familiar. Gosh, why didn’t my buzz phrase “tumor like cooked meat” bring anything up? thanks for the help. Just wanting to know a bit more about what happened to her!!

 

[KCAmelia]

Sorry for your loss. Sounds like a reproductive tract infection. Do you have pictures?

Thanks. Her name was Felicia. Named from Ice Cube’s movie Friday. She was very sweet. Well, in the end. She was actually a really bossy boss of the flock until she got sick. “Bye, Felicia!”

I didn’t take pics because of the smell. I almost barfed and had to wrap it up quickly. I am much better at processing healthy birds.