Duck Eggtopsy - Warning, Lots of Graphic Pictures!

[casportpony]

Not a duck, buy have seen this in ducklings:
Did my first peachick necropsy on a ten day old chick. Chick hatched with a larger than normal belly and it never got smaller:





-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

More:








-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

the yolk is still there even though it should have been absorbed by this age. Still have lots more pictures to share, along with what I researched. Times like this I wish I had sent it off for necropsy.

Since doing this, I learned that birds have a Meckel's diverticulum, which looks like this:





-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Note the large, dark blob in post #102... that was the very enlarged spleen. Will post more pictures later.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

I found this interesting:

Source:http://avianmedicine.net/content/uploads/2013/03/46.pdf

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Just hatched with possible yolk sac infection. I washed it with Chlorhexidine and gave it some Baytril. Pictures:

 

[caesargirl]

Just hatched with possible yolk sac infection. [COLOR=333333]I washed it with [/COLOR][COLOR=252525]Chlorhexidine and gave it some Baytril. Pictures:[/COLOR]

Any updates? Poop? Reduction in swelling?

 

[casportpony]

There was poop this morning, but was odd looking. Swelling is about the same.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Yolk sack piched off between leg bones:













-Kathy

 

[caesargirl]

Any pics, duck, 6 day quitter? And what would/could cause it? My sense says bacteria... Maybe. Wasn't the only one that quit on same day. No odor and no discoloration. What would a bacterial quit look like?