Necropsy pictures - Graphic! Do you see anything out of the ordinary?

[grammaC]

I wanted to see the necropsy photos (in case I need to do one), but it says they were moved deleted...can you tell me where they are located now?

 

[GardienneWings]

You mentioned the treadle feeder and that "maybe she didn't get it." I recently got treadle feeders and have watched my birds closely to see how they have learned to use them. Even those birds that don't like or don't get it, have learned to associate the sound of the box opening with "time to eat" and will eat when another bird gets on the treadle to open the feed box. My turkeys will not get on the treadle but do eat anytime a chicken does. Smart or dumb, not sure, but that's for another thread.

Sorry for your loss.

Val

 

[Cuween]

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Yes, I did have trouble getting the liver out without damaging it.

When you say the amount of fat is unusal - Do you mean that she had an excessive amount of fat? She was a bit thin (and so were some of the other hens), which is one reason I dewormed them. I was surprised to see so much fat, when she was not a heavy chicken. The fat was not all over, but seemed to be very thick around the crop, around the gizzard, and down where her eggs would be before being laid - the heart had some fatty tissue on it too.

Please look up CANKER IN CHICKENS. Could the harder yellow stuff be from
Canker?That’s a fungus type disease chickens can get from wild birds, especially pigeons, and is found in a high percentage of the wild pigeon population. I’m not sure if wild birds die from it. They may just be carriers.It’s spread in the water by wild birds.
It can invade all the organs. I had one with it and she had a yellow cheesy stuff inside her mouth.
It can be prevented by putting a specific amount of ACIDIFIED COPPER SULFATE in the water 3 days a month. If the copper sulfate is NOT ACIDIFIED IT WILL KILL THE CHICKENS. And it has to be the right amount.The canker, because it can invade all the organs ,will eventually kill the chicken.

My 2 year old BPR hen died the day after being dewormed, so I decided to do a partial necropsy to see if worms clogging her intestines were what killed her. My findings were inconclusive (I did rule out egg-bound and worm intestation), but don't know why she died 1 day after receiving the valbazen, when she was fine the day before.

This is the link to the thread where I posted her symptoms:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=599977&p=1

I did not dissect every single organ - I was mostly looking for worms or something obvious.

A view of the liver while in the body;

This photo is reversed from the previous one - the left side where the fat is, is the cloaca area (the amount of fat there surprised me). There were no eggs in her body - she hadn't started laying again since molting. I noticed white liquid down in her clocoa (looking at it from the inside cavity).

The liver - the top, left piece shows the color of the underneath, while the right piece shows a top view. The heart is on the left and the spleen is on the right.

The top pile of fat came from the hen's lower area, near her vent/clocoa as seen in the 2nd pic I posted. I'm not sure how much fat there should be and where it should be located on a chicken - this seemed like a lot to me. Also shown is the gizzard, covered in fat. The inside of her crop looked normal - still had feed waiting to be digested. The gizzard also looked normal and had feed, along with pebbles in it.

The pile of intestines. After removing the organs and taking a picture of them, I pulled out the pile of intestines so that I could look for worms. The intestines were almost impossible to separate and straighten out like you see in online pics. I finally gave up and cut into them while they were still together. I only found 1 round worm and that was found inside what might be one of the ceca - there could have been a few more somewhere, but not an infestation.

We did find 2 separate earthworm looking things, but are assuming they must be the ceca. I expected the ceca to be attached to an intestine -- these 2 things seemed to be unattached to anything - both ends of each one were free, yet they were bound up in the mess of intestines. One was about 9 inches long and the other was 3-4 inches long.

I slit it open and there was a little light green liquid on one end, along with tiny white things (Tapeworm eggs?). On the other side, about 2 inches from the end, there was a dark green, thick material (I took a pic). My impression was that it looked like a big earthworm, but it was not flat or segmented, so it couldn't be a tapeworm. Was this the ceca?

And in a bad or advanced case of it, it can invade the organs. It’s sometimes visible in the mouth. Yellow, cheesy looking.
I had it in a chicken. It can be prevented by putting a very specific amount of “acidified copper sulfate” in the water 3 days a month every month. It must be ACIDIFIED COPPER SULFATE. If it isn’t acidified, it will kill the chickens.

 

[Cuween]

Please look up CANKER IN CHICKENS. Could the harder yellow stuff be from
Canker?That’s a fungus type disease chickens can get from wild birds, especially pigeons, and is found in a high percentage of the wild pigeon population. I’m not sure if wild birds die from it. They may just be carriers.It’s spread in the water by wild birds.
It can invade all the organs. I had one with it and she had a yellow cheesy stuff inside her mouth.
It can be prevented by putting a specific amount of ACIDIFIED COPPER SULFATE in the water 3 days a month. If the copper sulfate is NOT ACIDIFIED IT WILL KILL THE CHICKENS. And it has to be the right amount.The canker, because it can invade all the organs ,will eventually kill the chicken.


And in a bad or advanced case of it, it can invade the organs. It’s sometimes visible in the mouth. Yellow, cheesy looking.
I had it in a chicken. It can be prevented by putting a very specific amount of “acidified copper sulfate” in the water 3 days a month every month. It must be ACIDIFIED COPPER SULFATE. If it isn’t acidified, it will kill the chickens.