RIP Victoria / Necropsy Photos

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You will be missed
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A few weeks ago we lost Victoria, our BCI female. She appeared healthy, we had no worry of anything being wrong.
We had been breeding her over the past few months and thought everything was going well.

2 weeks before she passed she regurged her meal the day after she was fed. I double checked her temps and they were on the cool side. I upped them (during a very cold snap). She seemed a little lethargic for a couple of days after her regurg then started to come around acting like herself again. 4 days before she passed we soaked her with some warm water mixed with pidilite.

She passed away over night. I found her on the morning check in. She was twisted up and had her teeth suck in her side, like she bit herself.


Today we did our own necropsy.

Me and my girlfriend both have experience in rehabbing and rescue but we are far from Vets. We were looking for something that looked odd, an impaction, tumor etc.

It did look like the Gall Bladder was open with the staining but thought maybe it could be from freezing her.

The only other odd thing that we could find was in her Oviducts. She had little knots going down one of them. When we cut them open (the knots, lumps) they looked pretty rotten. It was filled with a nasty brownish liquid. We are not sure if something went wrong with her building..?

If anyone has any input or sees something that I might not even know to look at, please feel free to chime in here.
She had never been sick before and we have our male in QT.

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Gall Bladder area
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Heart
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Lung
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Lumps on Oviduct
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Kidney
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Everything is labeled to the best of our knowledge, and everything looked to be pretty healthy...?

I miss her :(

Sorry for your loss. What a terrible thing to find on your morning checks. :(

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Wow, thank you for taking the time to share this story. I know it must be hard, but hopefully the education through these pics and the story may help someone else. I'm afraid I am no help in identifying cause of death, but I wanted to chime and tell you sorry for your loss. She was beautiful.

I'm so sorry for you. She was really beautiful, and left too soon.

Thanks everyone.

I hate not knowing what happened.

So very sorry for your loss. :tears:

Sorry for you lost 3skull. It's a sad day to lose such a pretty gem in your collection :(


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Sorry for your loss 3Skulls.....any chance you sample anything as you went to be able to microscope it or send it to a vet?

Do you have any more detailed pictures of the oviduct or those lumps?

Was there any seemingly unusual blood pooling anywhere near the organs, in the organs, in between tissue layers?

Any other weird behavior that in hindsight might stick out now?

I am so sorry that happened :( sending positive energy your way

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Originally Posted by OsirisRa32

Sorry for your loss 3Skulls.....any chance you sample anything as you went to be able to microscope it or send it to a vet?

Do you have any more detailed pictures of the oviduct or those lumps?

Was there any seemingly unusual blood pooling anywhere near the organs, in the organs, in between tissue layers?

Any other weird behavior that in hindsight might stick out now?

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We didn't take any samples but did keep all the organs. Wasn't sure what to look for under the microscope.

We talked to 3 different vets and they all said they couldn't do tissue samples because we froze her..?

No pooling of blood anywhere. That's the best pic I got of one of the lumps. When cut open, it was a very gross looking brown mush.

I'm sorry I didn't get better photos.

The only pooling was in the gall bladder section. The Green color. I'm not even sure if that's from the gall bladder or not. It was just in that area.

We do have a digital scope at home. I think it's 80-800x. Is there anything an untrained eye can look for?

I was also thinking of going back and opening up the digestive track to look for any parasites.

Does anything jump out from the pics at all?

Thanks for the help.