Chicken necropsy guide
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Chicken necropsy guide
- Equipment needed for a chicken necropsy
- Coelomic musculature
- Neck and cranial coelom
- Coelomic cavity
- Coelomic cavity with gastrointestinal tract reflected
- Gastrointestinal tract anatomy
- External examination
- Post-mortem approach
- 1. Pluck the feathers from the dorsum and ventrum
- 2. Disarticulate the leg
- 3. Expose the pectoral muscle
- 4. Visualise the air sacs while removing keel/pectoral muscle
- 5. Remove the sternum
- 6. Reflect the coelomic musculature
- 7. Visualise the bursa in dorsal cloacal wall
- 8. Remove the heart
- 9. Cut the base of the oesphagus
- 10. Retract the gastrointestinal tract to expose the reproductive tract
- 11. Anatomy after removal of the reproductive tract
- 12. Gently peel the lungs from the rib cage
- 13. Open the crop and oesophagus
- 14. Location of larynx
- 15. Swab the sinuses for exudates
- 16. Brain exposed for sampling
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Animal Health Laboratories (ahl)