Nercopsy report - anyone might understand this?

[AHDCST]

I am not a vet but I am a surgical nurse. The report says in English: respiratory infection and a secondary infection. Peritonitis is a fancy way of saying infection or inflammation of the peritoneum or lining of the stomach. I would ask my vet before treating the rest of the flock. The final report seems to say that your hen died of a n infection that had gotten in its blood stream. Hope this helps

 

[PipiOli]

Hi

thank you all so much for all your help. I will talk to the vet first and see what is the next step...

K.

 

[PipiOli]

Hi all

do today I finally took one of my hens to the vet.

He looked at her ears, eyes, throat, crops, listened to her heart, checked her butt.
He said she looked healthy as can be.... great!
He took her poop sample for testing just in case, which she graciously provided sample in the box on the way to the vet.
He has I should check my other hen the same way and if all good I can all consider them healthy... for the most part...

He was reluctant to put them all on antibiotics just in case as I thought. He said he didn't really see any signs for need of antibiotics plus if they got treated with antibiotics we wouldn't be able to eat the eggs till 2-3 months after the end of treatment.... wow...

Now he also read the report:

Laboratory Findings/Diagnosis

Final Report:
1. Tracheobronchitis, lymphoplasmacytic, lymphofollicular, moderate, indeterminate Mycoplasma synoviae PCR result.
That is respiratoty infection with some bacteria in it. Itself it shouldn't really kill her.

2. Serositis, heterophilic with egg yolk protein, “egg yolk peritonitis”, Gallibacterium anatis biovar haemolytica isolated.
That he said is infection from one of her eggs went down wrong tube and the egg ended up in her abdomen which caused the bacteria. Which most likely caused her to die together with weak immune system from the infection.
3. Hepatic lipidosis.
Fatty liver - doesn't mean she was fat. But when hen is sick she might stop eating for some time and body store the fat (just like humans) because doesn't know when it's going to eat next. That stored fat was too much for the liver to process and caused fatty liver.


I feel much better today. Tomorrow we check the rest of the hens.

thank you all for all your replies and advices.

Hope all your gils are well...

Katerina

 

[PipiOli]

BTW- she wasn't fat at all... ;-)

 

[seminolewind]

Glad you know now.
Fatty liver is common in finches as well. Even in mildly fat finches.
You're right, egg peritonitis is probably what killed her.
Sorry about your loss

Karen