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

[casportpony]

Fascinating video:

Peacock with foreign body obstruction in the trachea

 

[casportpony]

Here is one I did for a friend. It was a peacock that was losing weight, not eating, looking sick. We gave fluids and antibiotics, but that didn't help at all. This is one where I think a single xray would have been very helpful.

Gizzard with hole

Found in gizzard

This made the whole in the gizzard, it's a piece of very hard metal.

 

[Kiki]

What is this one?

Do you think that with an X-ray the hole would have been seen and would that hole been fixable?

 

[casportpony]

What is this one?

That was a piece of plastic.

Do you think that with an X-ray the hole would have been seen and would that hole been fixable?

I don't think the hole would have been seen, but the piece of metal would have been. Fixable? Probably not because I think there was too much infection and necrotic tissue. This is a piece of the intestine that was in the area:

 

[Wickedchicken6]

That was a piece of plastic.


I don't think the whole would have been seen, but the piece of metal would have been. Fixable? Probably not because I think there was too much infection and necrotic tissue. This is a piece of the intestine that was in the area:
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Much the same as "hardware disease" in livestock.

How did it eat that piece of metal? Ick.

 

[casportpony]

Much the same as "hardware disease" in livestock.

Exactly the same!

How did it eat that piece of metal? Ick.

Peafowl are very naughty that way.

 

[aart]

Wow! Thanks for the pics.
Just slaughtered 3 cockerels this morning, everything looked hunky dory in there.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Peafowl are very naughty that way.

I can't imagine how they can get something like that down. Wow!

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Wow! Thanks for the pics.
Just slaughtered 3 cockerels this morning, everything looked hunky dory in there.

Agree with aart, thank you for the pics. Those are great pics! Nice and clear.

 

[casportpony]

I can't imagine how they can get something like that down. Wow!

This was their second bird to do that. Looking for pictures of the first.