Warning Graphic fotos from necropsy

[nurselisa13]

My girl hasn't been her best for awhile, droopy comb, not very active, got worse, her belly was swollen and she started standing like an egg was bound. She died as I was trying to see if she had an egg stuck because it looked like one was...anyway, the day before she died I noticed she was open beak breathing seemed in more distress then seemed a bit better. So, after she died I figured I'd see what was going on. I have no clue what

this is but was shocked to see it inside her because none of the pics or utubes showed anything like this. I was expecting her to explode pus when I opened her since her belly was so tight, but instead she was filled with these blobs which mostly contain what looks like water, not infection. thoughts on what these are?

 

[DobieLover]

They look like tumors to me. You may want to submit some to your local animal pathology lab to see if they can give you a diagnosis.

 

[Altairsky]

How old was she? It definitely looks like metastatic cancer. Can't tell where it started from by looking at the pictures. I guess ovaries since it's fairly common in hens and it appears to have pushed the liver up and the intestine down so it probably started somewhere in the middle.

 

[LaFleche]

This looks like Cystic Ovarian Cancer to me.

Sorry you lost her.

 

[LaFleche]

This is the gizzard with proventriculus on the upper right side

 

[Eggcessive]

Sorry for your loss, but thank you for posting your necropsy photos. There are many pictures of ovarian cancer in chickens online. Here is one I found:
https://www.researchgate.net/figure...racterized-by-the-pedunculated_fig2_258338254

 

[nurselisa13]

Sorry for your loss, but thank you for posting your necropsy photos. There are many pictures of ovarian cancer in chickens online. Here is one I found:
https://www.researchgate.net/figure...racterized-by-the-pedunculated_fig2_258338254

very interesting, what was even more weird is they weren't consistent, some were fluid filled and some were a solid mass.

 

[nurselisa13]

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This is the gizzard with proventriculus on the upper right side

I was wondering what this part was, thanks for identifying it!