WARNING!! GROSS!! Graphic Necropsy PICS - I need help with diagnosis

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

pips&peeps :

The picture you have of the sciatic nerve is not the sciatic. Check out this pdf download.....

http://www.lahinternational.com/pdf/PoultryAnatomyEng_w.pdf

I'm pretty sure I do have the sciatic nerve identified - I had looked online to see what I was looking for.

http://partnersah.vet.cornell.edu/avian-atlas/search/disease/502
If the link defaults back, click on "marek's disease", then "gross lesions" the nerves are picture #12.

Besides the 4 strands in my pic, therthe larger part of the nerve is also pictured.

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

pips&peeps :

The picture you have of the sciatic nerve is not the sciatic. Check out this pdf download.....

http://www.lahinternational.com/pdf/PoultryAnatomyEng_w.pdf

Pips&Peeps -- thank you for posting that pdf -- wonderful pictures with loads of great info.


ArizonaDesertChicks -- I am so sorry that Splash died

but thank you for this post. Kudos for to your for having the fortitude to do your own necropsy. Wonder what happened to her tiny kidney - that way from hatch or did it atrophy or something else?​

 

[pips&peeps]

Now I see them. I needed them pointed out to me!

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

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No, I didn't. I didn't think to look inside - wouldn't have known what to look for and don't know if that would have shown up on camera.
I don't think she had cocci - her stools were normal until I started feeding her orange pediatric electolytes - I don't know if her poop turned green because of being sick or because of the orange stuff (along with yogurt, etc). Also, all 17 of the other chickens are still healthy - if she had coccidiosis, by now, other chickens would also be acting sick.

Pips&Peeps - Yes, I forgot to thank you for the pdf - great info to keep on hand.


Tailfeathers - Thanks. I wonder if she did have a non-working kidney from the beginning - that would have made the other kidney work harder and maybe a little enlarged?

We lost a little grandbaby in utero at 8 1/2 months along. He was missing a kidney from the beginning, which we knew about, but we still expected him to make it - lots of people are living with only 1 kidney. Something else also must have been wrong with him physically, because he didn't survive. After death, the only other thing the doctors found to be wrong with Chandler was that the other kidney was enlarged. I don't know whether that kidney was enlarged due to having to work harder or if there was something else there that just couldn't be found.

 

[SeramaLife]

This has been incredibly helpful.

 

[seminolewind]

Check with the agricultural dept of health and see if Eastern equine encephalitis is prevalent in your area. My vet did a necropsy and his feeling was that my roo had it. It's the same symptoms as Mareks but carried by a mosquito. On this health dept website, horses and chickens have died from it, and it's all over my state.

 

[chickensioux]

Absolutely incredible pics and info. So sorry about your hen. Even as a vet tech, I can't do this to my own.....I know, I'm a weenie....thanks for posting.

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

Thanks for the tip.

As an update; It's been 3 months since she first came down with symptoms, but the rest of the flock is still very healthy. Whatever she died from seems to be an isolated incident.