Simulated Natural Nest Incubation~Experiment #1 So it begins....

[Lacy Blues]

I threw away all her internal organs except the gizzard which I peeled the lining from and I have that and the bird on a slow cook on the stove. I don't know if it is safe to serve her up or not. I got a link from the Heritage thread that showed a lot of different abnormalities. I didn't find a match at all.

 

[Beekissed]

I threw away all her internal organs except the gizzard which I peeled the lining from and I have that and the bird on a slow cook on the stove. I don't know if it is safe to serve her up or not. I got a link from the Heritage thread that showed a lot of different abnormalities. I didn't find a match at all.

That's not a bird I would eat...truly.

 

[aart]

Quote: Was the liquid yellow? Could be Ascites...happens in conjunction with heart issues. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/46041/butchered-yesterday-found-yellow-fluid

Intestinal lesions and congestion could be coccidiosis http://www.merckmanuals.com/vet/poultry/coccidiosis/overview_of_coccidiosis_in_poultry.html

I'd post in the meat section here at BYC..'strange things found during butchering'...probably get you some advice from what other folks have seen.

 

[ocap]

That's not a bird I would eat...truly.

My dad would look at the liver of wild rabbits to see if it was edible, abnormal liver toss the whole animal.

 

[enola]

The only one I have is this and it doesn't show the abnormal things...but I would sure love to see what you've got.  No one on this thread is going to care....

http://borlaug.tamu.edu/files/2012/03/Poultry-necropsy-Manual.pdf

I want to see too!

 

[Lacy Blues]

That's not a bird I would eat...truly.

I won't be eating it. I'm thinking I won't give it to my birds either.

The liver looked pretty normal. The heart was very small, like I'd expect to find in a bantam. She was a large bird. She was heavy, but that may have been due to the water inside. Yes, it was yellow.

This link sounds like it... maybe?... http://www.merckmanuals.com/vet/poultry/neoplasms/reticuloendotheliosis_in_poultry.html I wish they had provided pictures of some of these issues as I don't know what some of the words mean. I don't have time to go traipsing through an encyclopedic dictionary to figure out what they're saying.

She had extremely little blood. In fact, I hadn't planned to do a necropsy, just butcher. She wasn't laying, she was hardly eating. She didn't act sick at all except for not eating. She looked good, just a little "depressed." I chopped her neck, like I normally do and she didn't bleed. I thought I must not have broken the skin, which happens sometimes so I did it again. No blood. I chopped it completely off and still no blood. There was no blood in her intestines at all and so I don't think it was coccidiosis.

I guess I will start a graphic warned thread for it. I will provide a link for it when I do. I have quite a headache today so I don't know if it will happen today or not. Maybe it will go away later.

 

[aart]

Quote: Hope you feel better soon.

 

[Lacy Blues]

Photos are up.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ic-if-youre-squeamish-dont-look#post_13210521

 

[Beekissed]

Photos are up.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ic-if-youre-squeamish-dont-look#post_13210521

I just don't know what to think of all that...wish I could have been there and strung those organs out and dissected each one to look at specific things. She does look very anemic but then she also doesn't look malnourished..has fat around heart and gizzard. The eggs are the most abnormal looking things I've ever seen and I'm surprised she was even producing any. Her lungs look like they have lesions as well. She looks dehydrated and that could be due to the loss of fluids into the abdomen, what we call third compartment fluid loss.

I think I would have saved that bird and entrails and sent it to the state for an official necropsy....something is very, very not right with that bird and I've opened up hundreds upon hundreds of chickens...can't say I've ever seen anything remotely like that.

 

[BCMaraniac]

I just don't know what to think of all that...wish I could have been there and strung those organs out and dissected each one to look at specific things. She does look very anemic but then she also doesn't look malnourished..has fat around heart and gizzard. The eggs are the most abnormal looking things I've ever seen and I'm surprised she was even producing any. Her lungs look like they have lesions as well. She looks dehydrated and that could be due to the loss of fluids into the abdomen, what we call third compartment fluid loss.

I think I would have saved that bird and entrails and sent it to the state for an official necropsy....something is very, very not right with that bird and I've opened up hundreds upon hundreds of chickens...can't say I've ever seen anything remotely like that.

I am pretty sure it's ovarian cancer, Bee!! Here are pictures of metastatic ovarian cancer in a hen:

FIGURE 3