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What happened?

rhodyray

Songster
10 Years
Jul 19, 2014
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Exeter, Rhode Island
One of my hens stopped laying eggs months ago and began with intermittent diarrhea and a sneeze/cough. She ate like a hog and I finally had enough and decided to have a friend process her to find out what was wrong. She was a Golden Comet hybrid. I'm not fond of hybrid hens and just about everyone of them I've had ends up with a problem. My RI Red, Barred Rock, Australorp, and Orpington never had any problem. Here are some pictures of the processed hen with one being her intestines and the other her carcass which has hardly any meat to it. I'd like to know based on a visual exactly what she had and would appreciate any feedback in case I made a mistake somewhere along the way. I clean the coop and runs every day and change the water just about every day. Thank you

Intestines.jpg
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Looks like she had cancer. Could have been a reproductive cancer that spread, those are fairly common, particularly in heavy laying breeds, as she was. There are also some virus's that can cause tumors. Very unlikely that this was caused by anything you did or didn't do.
 

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