Very sick hen - Warning, Contains Very Nasty, Grapic Necropsy Pictures - Updated

[casportpony]

Had a couple like this where it looked like many eggs got stuck and formed a huge mass:

That weighed 500 grams.

-Kathy

 

[mymilliefleur]

The hen above had all of those egg yolks floating in her belly, is that what you mean?

-Kathy

Yes, that is similar to what I've had. The second hen like that we butchered and did a necropsy on her. She had a huge mass of what looked like compressed scrambled egg in her abdomen.

 

[casportpony]

Quote: Sad to say I had another one die.

Like the others, I can feel something in her belly, but it's small.

-Kathy

 

[Kikiriki]

A last note is that the rats used for the study are a special line that does get cancer, by design. However, the ages and severity are what are notable and if I recall, that was discussed in the study.

http://www.naturalnews.com/037249_GMO_study_cancer_tumors_organ_damage.html

That's the famous Seralini study - it's literally meaningless. If you wanted to give a class on how not to conduct a study, this would be the first example

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Séralini_affair

I don't think this is the place to discuss the validity of the research, so if you start a thread of your own under "miscellaneous", I will look for it. I will only state here that you toss out an unsupported insult to the researchers in response to factual events, including that their research was published and only pulled on very flimsy accusations which were addressed before being republished. Open a thread and back your comment up with some science and statistical facts. And be prepared to discuss the research you have conducted as well as your education and employment histories.

 

[CrazyTalk]

I don't think this is the place to discuss the validity of the research, so if you start a thread of your own under "miscellaneous", I will look for it. I will only state here that you toss out an unsupported insult to the researchers in response to factual events, including that their research was published and only pulled on very flimsy accusations which were addressed before being republished. Open a thread and back your comment up with some science and statistical facts. And be prepared to discuss the research you have conducted as well as your education and employment histories.

If you're using the report as evidence for a claim in this thread, this is absolutely the place to discuss the validity of the research.

As to insulting the researchers - this is one of very few papers that a journal has retracted. It was retracted because literally nothing in the study was done correctly. The reasons were not 'flimsy' - the study made claims it's evidence did not support. The study was done in such a way that absolutely no information could be gleaned from it, as the samples sizes were an order of magnitude too small because of the line of rat used.

Here's a good article on why this study is junk:
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-seralini-gmo-study-retraction-and-response-to-critics/

 

[casportpony]

Maybe one of you should start a new thread about it?

-Kathy

 

[mymilliefleur]

Had a couple like this where it looked like many eggs got stuck and formed a huge mass:

That weighed 500 grams.

-Kathy

Wow..........

 

[casportpony]

Quote: Here is another one that I found searching the web:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/81544/holy-mole-pix-of-yolk-peritonitis-this-is-what-killed-tammy

-Kathy

 

[hennible]

Wow interesting

 

[casportpony]

Wow interesting

Isn't it? It's been a real eye opener doing my own necropsies.

-Kathy