Tumor on dove breast

[Varmint Cong]

No joke. While I was doing my final cleaning before throwing my dove in the marinade, I saw a bird with breast cancer. This thing had a tumor 3/4 the size of a marble growing on it. First time I've ever seen it and I've cleaned thousands of birds in my lifetime. oddest thing.

Ok I know they are coming so now you can joke...

Yes it was ironic that I was using pink shells from Sprague's.
No, I don't think dove migrate from Japan (but Palo Verde Nuclear Plant is only 65 miles away).

 

[slanttop357]

Did you Google it ? might find something.

 

[BIGCIM]

Wow next time ill have to check the birds for testicular cancer or prostate by the way I stick my thumb in the while cleaning.

 

[ImaTeamRoper2]

would of liked to see a picture?

 

[solus]

you should have called department of wildlife maybe its some kind of new disease and should be monitored

 

[spectr17]

I wanna see a pic of them pink shells from Sprague's. :mooning:

Never seen a diseased or nuke-you-lar dove breast. Seen a few bad duck breasts

 

[asaxon]

Did you cut it open? It is not uncommon for animals (including humans) to form capsules of scar tissue around imbedded foreign bodies (#9 shot, splinter etc) although have no idea about doves so it may have been a foreign body reaction rather than a "tumor" (benign or malignant).

Or it may have been a dove ahead of its time and it got a breast implant! (someone owed you at least one joke).

 

[sammyguy193]

Did you fondle it?

 

[mezcan]

Got a dove one time that had a fully healed shot wound in the breast from the year before. Didn't seem to taste any different.

 

[7mallards]

Asaxon most likely hit nail on the head with it being some kind of "fix" by nature due to maybe being previously shot with a pellet etc. You see lots of this on duck breasts...

If you eat it and grow an extra toe then you know we were wrong

 

[Varmint Cong]

I'm kicking myself for not taking a pic.

My first thought was that it may have been a cyst or some reaction to a bb from last year. It may be just that but it was very firm with a lot of blood vessels feeding into it (bad sign).

It wasn't an implant because it was only on one side. Also, there were no signs of Botox use or beak plumping. I'm pretty certain this dove was from Yuma not Beverly Hills.

 

[7mallards]

So no relation to Tara Reid then huh? That was funny Varmit no botox or implant very very funny

 

[coachmetty]

I shot some Dove in Hinkley. i wonder If they might have tumors as well

 

[inchr48]

Don't the Beverly Hills doves have two left wings ?