Managing Your Flock and the Importance of Necropsies - Contains Graphic Picures and Video

[Folly's place]

A heavy roundworm load can be spread throughout the small intestine. Like vermicelli.
Mary

 

[CayugaJana]

@casportpony do you have any good videos or other threads where there is a good how to for a necropsy for those of us that don’t live close enough to you?

 

[casportpony]

@casportpony do you have any good videos or other threads where there is a good how for a necropsy for those of us that don’t live close enough to you?

FYI, I am a total hack and still trying to figure out how to necropsy, lol.

 

[CayugaJana]

FYI, I am a total hack and still trying to figure out how to necropsy, lol.

Thank you. That pdf is fantastic.

Surely not..... you seem great at everything you do.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

A heavy roundworm load can be spread throughout the small intestine. Like vermicelli.
Mary

That's a frightening thought. I haven't experienced worms in the necropsies I've done so far, so I'm unfamiliar with that entire aspect.

 

[casportpony]

And just to clarify what we're seeing, the roundworms appear to be from that opened section of intestine?

I believe so.
Was wondering it what section of intestine, or all throughout the digestive system?

I'm curious as well!!

A heavy roundworm load can be spread throughout the small intestine. Like vermicelli.
Mary

That's a frightening thought. I haven't experienced worms in the necropsies I've done so far, so I'm unfamiliar with that entire aspect.

The worms were in a six-inch area of the small intestine, and no cecal worms were found in the ceca.

 

[casportpony]

That white/yellow stuff around the lungs, looks like it is outside of the lungs constricting trachea maybe? Was that stuff solid or goopy?

Is that the whole lung or part of it?
Can't quite tell and they can be hard to get out intact from between the ribs.

Lung looks well oxygenated, nice and red?

Great pics!
Might want to add 'Graphic' to the spoiler tab.

That was both hard and liquid pus. It was inside the lungs and the trachea. I have more pictures that show it better.

Those were the whole lung, I think. Normally I don't get to the lungs because I usually find the cause of death well before then.

Most of my chicken hens have died from cancer of the reproductive tract.

Lung color, I haven't a clue as to what normal is. I need to study up on that.

 

[Folly's place]

Normal lungs are pink. Goo anywhere isn't normal!
Mary

 

[Folly's place]

Chicken lungs are difficult to extract from the carcass. Normal lungs float in water too.
Mary

 

[casportpony]

Normal lungs are pink. Goo anywhere isn't normal!
Mary

Okay, so they were too red?

Here is a picture of where the pus was. I was inside the tubes and both inside and outside the lungs.