Hughes Wildlife Farm
Songster
Justcas a reminder, I posted a real life deceased chicken.. Don't continue, if your squemish.
6 month old, Polish Crested, "Tina Turner". I did my monthly health checks this week and although Tina was acting as normal as her coop mates when I let them out every morning, I entered the coop on Wednesday night to do a full body check on the girls, and I almost stepped on her, as she was in the middle of the coop and not on the roosts with everyone else. Odd I thought, as I picked her up I felt (what I thought was her crop) but almost tennis ball sized, and hard as a rock On her chest.. Later relized that it's on her right side (not her left as a crop should be) as I felt around, I relized the dried blood on it and a second hard Gulf ball size lump on her neck.. Both with external scab tissue, dry blood, and missing feathers. Because at this time I wasnt thinking of crop placement, I thought impacted crop and brought her inside to treat with oil to soften crop and monitor stools.. I figured she may have caused the second smaller wound while trying to pick at the impacted crop... Her stools were bright green yellow and runny for these past 4 days. She was eatting her food and drinking just fine, and runs away everytime I enter to reload food and water..
Somthing clicked in my brain today that isn't her crop... I can't even find her crop, but she was definatly eatting.
So I did dispatch her today and did my own disection to see what was going on.. Looked to be 2 tumors (neither were attached to any major organs) (pictured below, I did cut the tumors in half to see the inside). And crop was found, completely empty.
Her sister is currently having a necropsy done, but she had no tumors on her body.. She was just not standing or walking)
Any thoughts on the stool, organs or tumors in the photos 're very welcomed.
After realizing the tumors were not attached, I feel they couldve been removed with out death being an option... Ugh
6 month old, Polish Crested, "Tina Turner". I did my monthly health checks this week and although Tina was acting as normal as her coop mates when I let them out every morning, I entered the coop on Wednesday night to do a full body check on the girls, and I almost stepped on her, as she was in the middle of the coop and not on the roosts with everyone else. Odd I thought, as I picked her up I felt (what I thought was her crop) but almost tennis ball sized, and hard as a rock On her chest.. Later relized that it's on her right side (not her left as a crop should be) as I felt around, I relized the dried blood on it and a second hard Gulf ball size lump on her neck.. Both with external scab tissue, dry blood, and missing feathers. Because at this time I wasnt thinking of crop placement, I thought impacted crop and brought her inside to treat with oil to soften crop and monitor stools.. I figured she may have caused the second smaller wound while trying to pick at the impacted crop... Her stools were bright green yellow and runny for these past 4 days. She was eatting her food and drinking just fine, and runs away everytime I enter to reload food and water..
Somthing clicked in my brain today that isn't her crop... I can't even find her crop, but she was definatly eatting.
So I did dispatch her today and did my own disection to see what was going on.. Looked to be 2 tumors (neither were attached to any major organs) (pictured below, I did cut the tumors in half to see the inside). And crop was found, completely empty.
Her sister is currently having a necropsy done, but she had no tumors on her body.. She was just not standing or walking)
Any thoughts on the stool, organs or tumors in the photos 're very welcomed.
After realizing the tumors were not attached, I feel they couldve been removed with out death being an option... Ugh
