***Roo X-ray PICS!*** Would lymphiod leukosis tumors/growths show upon x-ray?

[snowflake]

just dropped in on this thread, sorry for your loss

you tried so hard to save him

 

[MA Mama]

I am new to chickens and therefore on a learniing curve. I really did a ton of research prior to getting them, and I felt pretty knowledgable. I just wish that I could be learning all my chicken keeping lessons on the ones that mean less to me. Why does it always have to be the ones you like the best that suffer and die?

I can't necropsy him - wish I could but the state won't answer the phone until Monday morning,and I can't keep him cold until then. He has been buried next to his favorite hen who died a few weeks ago, the same hen who stood by his side when he was attacked by a dog and paralyzed for a while. Arg this is hard.

 

[Godsgrl]

I want to say I am so sorry you lost your rooster. It was evident in your posts how much you cared for him, and you tried so hard to save him. Also I want to say thank you for posting the x-ray films. I found them fascinating-how often do you get to see images like that? Thank you for sharing with us, your story may help the next person who comes along.

 

[leadwolf1]

For the next time, you can put a chicken in a plastic bag and keep it refrigerated until you can get an answer. I've done it several times...the need to know through the necropsy overcame my aversion to having the dead bird in my fridge.

I'm so sorry for your loss

If another starts showing symptoms, maybe you could take it in to be euthanized and then necropsied and you wouldn't have to worry about preserving it for later.

 

[Leslieb118]

For the next time, you can put a chicken in a plastic bag and keep it refrigerated until you can get an answer. I've done it several times...the need to know through the necropsy overcame my aversion to having the dead bird in my fridge.

I'm so sorry for your loss

If another starts showing symptoms, maybe you could take it in to be euthanized and then necropsied and you wouldn't have to worry about preserving it for later.

x2,, and I'll add that I found most of the information I needed online for my state diagnostic lab, including the proper forms to print and fill out along with instructions on how to submit, so I really didn't need to speak with anyone. You might want to locate that information for your state and bookmark it for future reference. It makes it so much easier.

That "need to know" feeling was the same for me. After I spent so much time and effort and nothing worked, I had to know something.
It's always heartbreaking when it's your favorite, too. Again, I'm very sorry.

 

[silky ma]

Soooo sorry for your loss. I just lost my roo 1:07 am this morn to what most likely was a second bout of coccoiditis..spellings off. He was a family member and I am torn up about his passing.
At least I was there holding him as he passed. Just heart breaking!!

 

[Popcorn]

This is very sad. I am newer to chickens too and never have luck with favorite birds either. Out of three batches of chicks my favorites have: slipped and broken the neck and died, had epilepsy and a gut blockage and died, the current favorite is male, one of four our of five chicks. Is this the first bird you have lost?

 

[MA Mama]

It's not the first bird I have lost. I have lost 4 so far, 2 to hawks (I was sad, but they weren't the "special" ones), and I lost a very dear-to-my-heart Naked Neck bantam hen a few weeks ago. So losing my also favorite rooster a few weeks later just compounded it. I have had great luck keeping my flock healthy, so it is a huge downer to now have something going on like this.

I would have put the bird in a bag in the fridge until I could get him sent out, however that would put my already-puts-up-with-too-much-chicken-stuff-as-it-is husband over the top! He built me the Taj Mahal of coops, puts up with two dying birds living in the kitchen, and buried all the dead ones. I can't ask even more of someone who doens't care at all about chickens! I am not pushiing my luck.

I'm glad people appreciated the x-ray. My husband and I both teach middle school science, so you can be sure we will be using them in class! Don't they look like a terridactyl???

 

[leadwolf1]

If your husband teaches science, he will understand the chicken in a bag in the fridge. Mine is the same. Does all the work for me just as you described but, he was the first to suggest the necropsy and didn't have a problem with them in the fridge. I would even keep them there before burial. Don't sell him short. After all the work he has put into them, he might secretly like to know what is killing them, also.

 

[MA Mama]

My husband teaches PHYSICAL science, not biology! If it was a rocket or something, then it could go in the fridge, LOL!!! I'm sure he cares about them, but there are limits.