Updated! - Test Your Diagnostic Skills - Warning, Contains Graphic Necropsy Photos

[casportpony]

He Was delivered at 10:30 am, so I should have a preliminary report in a few hours.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Got another one for you... Six year old Cochin found this morning, dead, empty crop, a little thin. A few days ago I noticed that she was a little depressed and not interested in food and during her cloacal exam I think I felt those dreaded "egg bits" or possibly cancer, so I suspect she died from EYP or cancer. Will do her later today or tomorrow. The next time one of my older hens dies I will send her to the lab to rule out diseases that might be causing these egg issues.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Just talked to the doctor at UC Davis and the cause of death was ascites due to a heart defect. Will post the official report once I get it and edit off my personal info, lol.

-Kathy

 

[dawg53]

Thanks for the info Kathy, interesting to know. You're having a time of it, that's for sure.

 

[Funky Feathers]

I had a hen die from EYP/eggbound. She had a hard shelled egg that was stuck, it had nowhere to get out. It was walled off in a sac somehow. I had to cut the egg out of her. I did her necropsy. Here are my pics.


Super fat abdomen (yellow), slight cloacal prolapse. The stuck egg is making the belly even more swollen.


close-up of same view


Note the small infected areas on the skin (I popped the pustules, white thick paste came out)


this is belly fat and drooping lower abdominal muscle.


Zoom-out of same view


Intestines in center (both sides of fat pulled away to the sides) -the fat was very thick!


My finger is pointing to an undeveloped egg in the ovaries.


Ovaries & intestines (LOOK at all that yellow fat!)

 

[coffeychicks]

I am sorry for your losses but I must say thank you for sharing all this info. I have learned so much from it

 

[casportpony]

This picture doesn't look normal to me... It looks like breast meat in the wrong place?

-Kathy

 

[mg15]

Could you post next to each picture what we are looking at ?
Thanks.

 

[Funky Feathers]

This picture doesn't look normal to me... It looks like breast meat in the wrong place?

-Kathy

She is a bantam cochin. That is lower abdominal muscle. The breast is up higher. Plus the camera angle makes it look like that.

 

[mg15]

Thank you for labeling the pictures.
Do you know why she would get eggbound ?