Heritage Large Fowl - Phase II

[Lacy Blues]

Thank you for the links Karen. I looked through them all and I didn't find this issue.

I don't know. I may post pics tomorrow but probably not on here. I wouldn't want you to

too much!

 

[hellbender]

This what you are looking for? Warning graphic pics!:
http://naturalchickenkeeping.blogspot.com/2013/11/how-to-perform-necropsy-autopsy-on.html
http://naturalchickenkeeping.blogspot.com/2013/01/diary-of-sick-chicken-graphic.html
BYC thread, pics heavy:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/590678/necropsy-pics-need-opinions-graphic
Atlas of Avian diseases from Cornell University: very graphic:
http://www.poultrydisease.ir/Atlases/avian-atlas/search/lesion/385.html

If anyone would have quick access to a requested link, it would be Karen aka 3riverschick.

BRAVO...

 

[hellbender]

why not start a thread with warnings? I did that for my water balloon chicken.....

Where is this thread? I'd like to see what is posted and just how much traffic it has received.

 

[bnjrob]

Does anybody have the link to the university that has necropsy photos? I actually don't need normal organs, I need to see some things that are far from normal. I just had the weirdest experience butchering a bird! I've got pictures but I'm pretty sure some people on here would probably hurl. So, if anyone has links to information I can look at (pictures too) it would be very much appreciated.

Is this the one you're thinking of?

http://partnersah.vet.cornell.edu/avian-atlas/

This one isn't photos but has some descriptions

http://poultryworld.tripod.com/dis_dir.htm

 

[hellbender]

Is this the one you're thinking of?

http://partnersah.vet.cornell.edu/avian-atlas/

Good to have on hand! Thanks.


*** Here's the answer to a question posed a couple times by PM. Beef and deer meat is only cooked under pressure long for the

meat to literally fall off the bones. When cool, we pick out the bones and cook them by themselves for about 1 hour then grind them after cooled!!!

 

[NanaKat]

Thank you for sharing those great links to necropsy! I made favorites connections to the pages. Had an older Australorp hen (6 year old) huddled in the hen house yesterday. When I checked her discovered that instead of an egg bound like I assumed, she had a huge mass in her abdomen. Necropsy was not photographed, but I found a fiberous tumor in the oviduct and a number of yolk sacks backed up behind it. Every thing else looked normal...heart, lungs, digestive system, intestines. Next week is my normal time to check the flock and to butcher any non layers and she definitely would have been one to go because her vent was not moist.

Here are a few photos for a springtime diversion...
Red...the Catahoula Lab checking out his chicks in the house brooder and a few of the Wyandotte and Buckeye hatched earlier this week that he is watching.


Spring on the farm...checking the herd 3 x a day for cows in labor, a 1st time heifer with her new calf, a sneaky cube stealer and a picture of one of the herds with young calves. (Gracie, the Aussie Shepherd had had her summer clip already.)

 

[Lacy Blues]

Oh, I don't know if I'll ever find out what happened. I don't have the brain power to understand all those "big words" and keep track of them. I could look them up individually but I'd be chasing word definitions all day and I just don't have time for that. I may start a thread with warnings. I wish I had taken video instead of just pictures as I don't think some of the issues would show up with still shots. I guess I'll have to do a LOT of explaining so people will understand exactly what I was seeing.

 

[hellbender]

@ NanaKat...Love the pictures.

 

[maryhysong]

Where is this thread? I'd like to see what is posted and just how much traffic it has received.

Here ya go;
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/776718/water-baloon-chicken-warning-graphic-autopsy-photos

 

[hellbender]

Here ya go;
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/776718/water-baloon-chicken-warning-graphic-autopsy-photos

Humm......5 posts in something like a year? But I do understand what you are saying.

My feelings on matters such as this are, adults who breed or keep chickens or livestock

should have a bit of intestinal fortitude. If one is likely to fold when something goes wrong...

he or she might consider collecting stamps or coins... far less traumatizing. JMHO