Guide to doing a chicken necropsy
Correct necropsy and sampling techniques will increase the likelihood of a definitive diagnosis with avian disease investigations.
Equipment needed for a chicken necropsy:
- standard post-mortem kit including scalpel, forceps, scissors
- secateurs
- dry swabs, jars for individual fresh samples and pooled formalin fixed tissues
- swabs in media for bacterial culture
- 5 mL sterile saline (drip fluid) or viral transport media (VTM).
