Necropsy on suddenly dead hen - Need Help! *Graphic pics*

[casportpony]

It DOES have legs/feet they kind of hook back. it looks similar to a grub or something but all of them look the same, that was just the only big one.

Safeguard & valbazen are pretty-much the same, right? the tags look like it's the same main drug but hard to read on the safeguard.

I will call TS back about the safeguard. thank you!

Safeguard is fenbendazole (100mg/ml) and Valbazen is albendazole (I don't know the mg/ml).

 

[casportpony]

Wazine & Piperazine are the same aren't they? I just dug through the cuppboard and found a bottle of Piperazine17.

You are correct. Remember, it only gets roundworms.

 

[Bleenie]

Got an e-mail back from the WSU Avian Lab... all her had to say was, "To me they look like caterpillars (possibly moth larvae)." i mailed back asking how moth larvae could survive in a chickens crop from eggs to adulthood, now I am just waiting to hear back.

 

[casportpony]

I think she ate them before she died.

 

[Bleenie]

I just didn't think moths could kill them, let alone live in a chickens crop.

 

[casportpony]

I just didn't think moths could kill them, let alone live in a chickens crop.

Something else killed her, not the bugs in her crop.

 

[Bleenie]

I am just guessing here but could it be that they were malnourished because of the large infestation of "moth larvae" in their crops? like they were eating all the feed and not leaving the hens enough to sustain themselves?

everyone's locked in the coop getting wormed now. thankfully I found someone to come pick up all the eggs the girls were brooding and the chicks that were already hatched in the brooder as well.