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I had a hen die on Sunday and it was exactly the same, with the green at the back end and purplish face. The only difference was no scratches. I would guess it was some organ failure, I actually thought maybe she got egg bound and died because she was a Red sexlink but there was no egg in there. I do not think it is a predator, I know for sure nothing got into my run and killed that hen.
 
What do the insides of the intestines look like?
I didn't get any photos of that because my hands were too gross to touch my phone. The inside was full of light brownish green liquid and just a couple grass blades. Closer to the stomach there was a weird little yellowish pouch on the intestine (It was the weird yellow spot in one of my photos I posted here) and when I cut that open, a lot of super nasty dark dark brown liquid poured out. It didn't smell pleasant, but my nostrils had so much rotten egg smell burned inside I couldn't distinguish what it smelled like.
I'm trying to post more pictures now, it just takes forever....
 
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back of the heart had this squishy black glob. I tried washing it and it just leaked blood, but it's color never changed.
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Were these lungs..? I honestly have no clue since I destroyed them to get them out. They were very mushy.
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Really dark area inside the chest area under where I pulled out those other things.
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I think this is the stomach, right? It was super hard.
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This weird little purple organ just popped right out.
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And the source of the smell is found. She is full of rotten yolks. Still a few more pics but BYC is lagging too badly from all my pics
 

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I suspected before the necropsy that your chicken had organ failure. There was just no external trauma to speak of and the blood pooling (dark color under skin) and blood coming from beak tells me that it didn’t bleed out from an attack. In the necropsy, I don’t like the coagulation on the back of the heart (abnormal) and one of the early organ photos looked like it was greenish when it shouldn’t have been. Almost like bile leaked out of the pancreas. I really think something happened internally (disease or heat related).
 
I suspected before the necropsy that your chicken had organ failure. There was just no external trauma to speak of and the blood pooling (dark color under skin) and blood coming from beak tells me that it didn’t bleed out from an attack. In the necropsy, I don’t like the coagulation on the back of the heart (abnormal) and one of the early organ photos looked like it was greenish when it shouldn’t have been. Almost like bile leaked out of the pancreas. I really think something happened internally (disease or heat related).
I think this sounds right.
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