Various Necropsies - Contains Very Graphic Pictures!

[18angovem]

What diseases cause pus in cows like that?

-Kathy

The vet had to make an incision into the stomach due to a flipped stomach and some bacteria must have got in the cut and caused and abcess. All I know is that a few weeks earlier that cow had a flipped stomach and had to have an incision in his stomach and then a few weeks later she died and her body cavity had a us all in it. All the vet said was that it was an internal abcess. That vet wasnt very popular or experienced and she ended up moving... I actually dont have a vet now.... my recent vet just became a NY state vet and now I am vetless.

 

[casportpony]

his is a hen that was walking like a penguin, breathing hard and she died while I was trying to drain the fluid.
















-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Her symptoms started in May and she lived for 3-4 months.

 

[18angovem]

What caused that???

 

[casportpony]

This was a 500 gram mass that I found in a hen's uterus





-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Here is a duck that a hawk attacked:


























-Kathy

 

[w2teals]

I had a Bobcat attack on my ducks one day... it was awful. looked like the hawk attack one but wider and cleaner cuts and ripped tracheas on three of the five. when I found them four were dead and one was alive but his intestines were hanging out dragging behind him through a 5 inch gash... I quickly put him down. He was my pride and joy too. my electric hotwire had stopped working and had no clue I about cried...

 

[casportpony]

I had a Bobcat attack on my ducks one day... it was awful. looked like the hawk attack one but wider and cleaner cuts and ripped tracheas on three of the five. when I found them four were dead and one was alive but his intestines were hanging out dragging behind him through a 5 inch gash... I quickly put him down. He was my pride and joy too. my electric hotwire had stopped working and had no clue I about cried...

So sorry for your losses!

-Kathy

 

[w2teals]

thanks, it was two years ago now.. my first real loss on the farm lol. Ive learned much since then including having a backup system for protection at all times.

 

[casportpony]

Thanks everyone for your help. She lived a good life. She was kind of a crotchey hen, always very *itchy, but she had character- vim and vigor, piss and vinegar. She didn't like something, which was often, she would let you know. She did die very respectably though and was extremely cooperative when I'd try to help her.

Here are the photos of the necropsy. It was my first necropsy, and I didn't have a sharp scalpel to cut her open so I did the best I could. I basically just wanted to see if she did have the EYP as was suspected. I don't have enough knowledge yet to really know much of what I'm looking at yet. I have a book to guide me, but other than internet photos and forums like this, that's about it.

the photos run backwards as far as time goes... the last one is first, the first one is last. Sorry about that, I don't know how to correct it.


This is the mass of eggs inside of her. I should have weighed it, but if I would have to guess it was about 8 pounds, if not more.













I didn't know at first what organs I was looking at...

Those are amazing pictures!