Yellow liquid in butchered chicken

[Mojo]

I just butchered an older hen and when I opened her lots of clear yellow liquid came out. She also had more of a white liquid run out her beak when I inverted her into the cone. Her liver's color is fine, her heart seemed small but I had just been butchering meat birds. So, perhaps it was normal since she was a cuckoo. She had been acting OK, just not as perky as the other chickens. OK to eat? Dog treats?

 

[lazy gardener]

Had she been fasted overnight? I'm guessing that the yellow liquid was ascites: fluid build up from a malfunctioning liver. She may have had sour crop, a yeast infection, which would account for her not being as perky as the other birds.

 

[Mojo]

She did not fast. Darn, her liver looked fine and it is in with the others. But, I guess it is the smaller one since the other two were the meat birds. OK to eat? I will look up what you mentioned.