Various Necropsies - Contains Very Graphic Pictures!

[Wonderwend]

Intact testicles; removed before this photo

 

[DuckyGaze]

Do you mean the rooster of your icon? He is a gorgeous one!
So sorry this happened.

 

[casportpony]

This is a two week old peachick that hatched with a yolk sac infection. I thought that maybe I could treat with antibiotics, but I thought wrong.




-Kathy

 

[Wonderwend]

Thanks DuckyGaze - it is the rooster in my icon. One of the most beautiful creatures I've ever seen. He was one of my friend's flock and I admired him from afar. When I started my first flock in May she gave him to me. I cried. I was nervous about having him as a new keeper as I didn't want to 'break him' . I had him about two weeks and he died. The guilt and heartbreak of losing such a beautiful creature is profound. I needed to autopsy to see if it WAS my fault or not and to learn from it. Kathy is very, very kindly helping me with that. This group is such a wonderful thing to have in my life.

 

[City farm]

Thank you for the great photo's. Do you mind posting the instrument's you use.. I saw one in a photo. The blade that has a blue handle, where did you get it?

 

[casportpony]

This one?

You can get them here:
http://www.qcsupply.com/140409-mini-disposable-scalpel-10-curve-blade-kit.html

Also look here:
https://www.google.com/search?q=dis...AcQ_AUoAmoVChMI4qPinbqNxwIVg5uICh2hJQhJ&dpr=1

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

I have a couple of kits like this (ignore stuff on outside of tool kit, those were purchased separately):

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-Kathy

 

[GraceTX]

INPUT NEEDED || This was my first Necropsy, which I loved by the way, and was curious if foam around the lungs is normal? Also, there seems to be a large hemorrhage at the top of the heart...I was wondering if that would be from my method of euthanizing (breaking the neck). I posted in another post but copied the information to this post as well. Symptoms listed below. If anyone has any input then please let me know! Thanks everyone!!

Breed: White American Bresse
Age: 2 Months
Sex: Male

Detail of Symptoms:

Day 1: The first sign of any problems was the sudden lose of control in the legs. He would hobble around and just lay down on his hocks. Still eating/drinking by himself. My original thought was an injury or vitamin deficiency, so I started feeding scrambled eggs, vitamin supplements, pumpkin seeds, garlic, etc..

Day 2: No improvement but kept up with feeding lots of vitamins, electrolytes, etc..

Day 3: No longer able to eat/drink so I started feeding/watering via syringe and decided to deworm and try a higher quality vitamin.

Day 4: No improvement. He started open mouthing breathing after eating/drinking which then turned into open mouth breathing no matter what.

Day 5: Open mouth breathing with a swallowing motion after each breath. Finally euthanized by breaking the neck.

He was having no problems pooping but as time went on they got really stinky, really dark green and really thick....like toothpaste or tar. I credited the smell from all the vitamins since they smelled bad before hand.

Thanks casportpony (Kathy) for directing me to this post!

 

[Sill]

Thanks @casportpony for directing me here to post necropsy photos. I went to @City farm 's house to help her with necropsies on a couple of chickens that were sick and weren't getting better. She can fill you in on any details I don't know.

Here are the resulting photos.

The first chicken was a young salmon faverolle pullet. She was very lethargic, couldn't keep her eyes open and had skin crusts and flaky patches.









I could not see any actively moving mites or lice, but I've never seen skin like this.

Her proventriculus (white-ish organ above my index finger) was thickened and the gizzard was flacid, no muscle tone to them at all.


The wall of the proventriculus was soft and thickened, the lining abnormal.



Inside the gizzard appeared normal except for lack of food. Plenty of pebbles though!



There was a small hard "bubble" near the pelvic bones and vent.

I accidentally nicked the gallbladder so there is green all over, sorry.
The heart to the left of the liver has a distended vessel going into or out of it. It had striations like an over inflated balloon. Aneurysm?



A better shot of it.

Her liver appeared normal.


Internal organs. Can't really tell from this photo but the lungs were pale.



Here was the ick factor. We found worms after I nicked her intestine.





Her intestines were packed with worms. Round worms?

OK, I did not know that parasitic worms can and do move! They did so slowly, but they moved.

 

[Sill]

The second chicken was a young rooster. He had a swelling in front of one of the eyeballs.





The internal organs appeared normal...

but the liver had some dark spots.

Normal proventriculus and gizzard. After seeing his her's was definitely abnormal.


After cutting into and emptying some intestines we found more worms. No where near the amount she had and he did have food in there as well.




Closer look at the worms.