Graphic!!! Mystery problem… anyone know what this is?

[coach723]

Sometimes it's really hard to know what's going on until after the fact and you open them up to look. I wonder if she may have swallowed something, or gotten something lodged that maybe caused a small puncture that might have festered and caused infection and the mass. They are well known to swallow all sorts of things they shouldn't. Regardless, she sounds like she was very ill, and it was a kindness to not let her suffer.

 

[CrystalAnon]

I had a family member with a background in pathology, look at the pictures again, and he wondered if this may have been a clump of food, meat, and other material that had decayed inside the beak or throat. He said it looked too walled off to be a cancer. I’m not sure if something like that had been in the crop and could have come back up, but that is what he wondered. There is a little bloody mucus smear in the one picture on the surface.

Thank you for being so proactive on our behalf! That is so sweet of you.