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Help with reading Xray image

cuysaurus

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Jan 17, 2025
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Hello!
Please, share your experience. What do you see in this Xray image, besides the broken femur? Are those healthy bones?
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Just trying to confirm whether there is bad with her bones, because I see some kind of texture on them. I do not entirely trust vets here, since the only treat dogs and cats.
Yesterday I learned that bird bones are full of air pockets to help make them lighter.
She put a solid (solid when I picked it up) healthy egg this morning. I think she has no calcium deficiency.
 
They don't appear normal to me. I am a veterinary assistant at a small animal and exotic practice, however, I'm not a veterinarian, so please don't take my word as gold.

In hens we've seen with bones that have that "moth eaten" appearance, they have a calcium and/or vitamin D3 deficiency (despite normal egg production), which could also explain the broken femur. This is called Polyostotic hyperostosis and can occur in varying degrees when a hen is ovulatory. The long bones in the legs are the most often affected.
 
They don't appear normal to me. I am a veterinary assistant at a small animal and exotic practice, however, I'm not a veterinarian, so please don't take my word as gold.

In hens we've seen with bones that have that "moth eaten" appearance, they have a calcium and/or vitamin D3 deficiency (despite normal egg production), which could also explain the broken femur. This is called Polyostotic hyperostosis and can occur in varying degrees when a hen is ovulatory. The long bones in the legs are the most often affected.
Please correct me if I'm wrong. Polyostotic Hyperostosis is when the long bones show an increase of bone density radiographically.
 
Please correct me if I'm wrong. Polyostotic Hyperostosis is when the long bones show an increase of bone density radiographically.
It can, depending on the species. From my understanding (and I could be incorrect!) in some avians, such as chickens, it can create deposits which can show up radiographically and make the bones appear "patchy". Again, from my understanding, when the deposits occur instead of occuring in a more even way, it means calcium and/or vitamin D3 deficiency
 
Since she has issues with calcification resulting in rather brittle bones in some areas. And there is no vet that deal with birds here, I guess I just have to put her down.
 

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