Puss EGG!!!!! salapingitis? help....please

[augustiner05]

Hello all!
I have a hen that has ceased to lay an egg for over two weeks! She is Blue Andalusia, about a year and a half old usually very active. Today she started acting very sluggish and slow to chase after me for treats. Her tail is drooping and she has foamy yellow poop. Looking though the chicken health handbook I read over colibacillosis, but her joints are normal and is not standing like a penguin, nor eyes that look blind or opaque. Later when I was out watering the garden I came across what I could only describe as a puss egg. It was a shell less egg filled with homogenous lemon curd colored and textured puss. Is this an indication of salapingitis? I have had no indication of respiratory infection but I have fought with bumble foot with this flock. What do you guys think?
Thanks
sandy

 

[augustiner05]

oh and she comb flopped over which happend first when she laying stopped. It goes back up some bads. She has been eating yell up until today when she wasn't excited about scratch i through at her!

 

[augustiner05]

http://www.thepoultrysite.com/diseaseinfo/134/salpingitis

Salpingitis

Extracted From:
A Pocket Guide to
Poultry Health
and
Disease

By Paul McMullin

2004
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Introduction

Salpingitis is an inflammation of the oviduct. It is a complex condition of chickens and ducks associated with various infections including Mycoplasma and bacteria (especially E. coli and occasionally Salmonella spp.). Infection may spread downwards from an infected left abdominal air sac, or may proceed upwards from the cloaca. The oviduct is a hollow tube joining the normally sterile environment of the body cavity with the cloaca, which normally has many millions of potentially pathogenic bacteria. The control of infection in this area is probably achieved by ciliated epithelium that mostly wafts a carpet of mucus towards the cloaca. Anything that damages the epithelium or disturbs normal oviduct motility is likely to increase the likelihood of salpingitis. Systemic viral infections that cause ovarian regression or damage to the oviduct or cloaca, are especially prone to increasing salpingitis.
Signs

• Sporadic loss of lay.
• Death.
• Damaged vents, leaking urates.
• Distended abdomen.
• Some birds may 'lay' a caseous mass of pus (which may be found in a nest or on the egg belt).

Post-mortem lesions

• Slight to marked distension of oviduct with exudate.
• May form a multi-layered caseous cast in oviduct or be amorphous.
• Peritonitis.

Diagnosis

Use the signs to select birds for culling and post-mortem investigation.
Lesions.
Bacteriology of oviduct.
Treatment

Birds with well-developed lesions are unlikely to respond to medication. Use of a suitable antimicrobial may be beneficial for birds in the early stages and if associated with efforts to minimise risk factors.
Prevention

Control any septicaemia earlier in life, use healthy parent flocks, immunise effectively against respiratory viral pathogens common in the area.

 

[augustiner05]

anyone know: a suitable antimicrobial may be beneficial for birds in the early stages and if associated with efforts to minimise risk factors.?

 

[augustiner05]

http://www.avma.org/issues/policy/jtua_poultry.asp
this is a list of antimicrobials not sure how to pick one or where to get it

 

[NovaAman]

Wow, I have never even heard of this until now! Do you have an avian vet you could contact?

 

[speckledhen]

Salpingitis is very common, especially in high production hens. Most folks use the term egg yolk peritionitis, internal laying and salpingitis interchangeably, though they are slightly different.


Salpingitis can happen when feces are sucked back into the oviduct by a "loose" cloaca that doesn't properly close off when an egg is laid-it is an ecoli infection and causes cheesy masses to build up just like you see in bumblefoot plugs, which are staph infections. That is the way a chicken's body deals with infection, encapsulates and solidifies it.


You need to quit bumping your thread. If you had new information, what you were supposed to do is edit the first post to add that information if no one had answered you.

Antimicrobials won't fix this. You need penicillin injections to combat the infection, but even then, that may not help if the oviducts are plugged up completely.



Quote: This is what that means--GRAPHIC PIC

The long tube like mass was in the oviduct of a hen who died. like link sausage in a casing. Masses were also in the abdomen (internal laying) You may find smaller pieces, called lash, in the nestbox.




ETA: Adding that I do feel you may be jumping to conclusions here. Yellow poop can mean worms, could be normal cecal poop, etc. Bits of tissue can be passed without being come dread disease. I wasn't saying your hen definitely has salpingitis, but merely expounding on it for NovaMan.

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