Follicular statis pictures (graphic pictures)

Here is a copy of a thread shown in a French forum with some very good pictures for those who wondered (like me) what follicular statis look like.

Kinyonga did the translating (yes, she can read French!!) as i do not plan to take credit of it!

"Here, for those who do not know what follicular stasis looks like, it is when a reptile female does not mate. I'm certain of it but you will be able to judge the space which it takes in a belly and why the females quickly decline.

The first one is two ovaries in good health.



Then following three pictures, the ovaries are in follicular stasis. Attention, each bunch corresponds to an ovary!!






The last picture is made of egg bindings that are fertile


By the way, all the animals were not dead but still under the influence of the anaesthesia when the pictures were taken. "


I'd also add a last comment from Kiny herself on the pictures:
"If you look at the pictures in the link you gave me you will see that in all the photos except the last one the "eggs" are almost round...that indicates that they are follicules still and have not ovulated (moved into the uterus).

The oval ones in the last picture were ready (or almost ready) to be laid...but couldn't be laid. "


Hope you guys enjoyed the pictures!


Reference:
The original poster is a lady who works at a vetenerarian clinic in France. Her nickname on Internet is Dididoun. The URL to the original post can be found here:
http://forum.tanalahy.com/photo-d-une-stase-folliculaire-t11555.html

very awesome and GRAPHIC but mostly awesome

Wow very interesting

Hope I got the translation right!
After re-reading it I realize that morpheon did part of the translation.

kinyonga said:

Hope I got the translation right!

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I read it fast and didn't change much of it! So yes, it was good!

Wow that's great. Go Kinyongia for translation! Hope you got permission to repost here beforehand, though.

Wow thats Neat!!!

Syn said:

Go Kinyongia for translation!

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She's doing great! I remember the first time we started chatting (me and Kiny) was when she translated some rap stuff for me (fa shizzle or something like that)!

I bet you ignored the fact that Kiny is indeed a rapper in her soul!

I am not a rapper...not even in my soul! (I can listen to it sometimes though!)

Thanks for the comment about being able to translate it...but I'm sure you could have done it yourself. I just wanted to know what it said for my own benefit.

Now, if they could only figure out what causes follicular stasis and how to correct it!

Thanks to both of you for getting and translating this for us. I learned a lot from it, things I hope never to see.

kinyonga said:

I am not a rapper...not even in my soul! (I can listen to it sometimes though!)

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This right there could be given a beat and rapped.

And I'll bet you could do it too Syn!

And I'll bet you could do it too Syn!

Here's another site...but I don't agree with all it has to say...IMHO they are talking more about dystocia than fol. stasis...
http://www.all-creatures.com/custom_content/c_8762_follicular_stasis_in_a_bearded_dragon.html

I recently necropsied my WC female sternfeldi that died all of a sudden. She was very small yet gravid/pregnant. The babies had quite a ways to go, but they had filled up her entire coelomic cavity, I wonder how she was even able to breathe. There is no way she could have carried them full term. I can't imagine the discomfort she was in. It is one thing to necropsy a reptile with eggs, but when you can see the babies inside... clearly, it is even more disturbing. They had the cutest little hands, feet, and tails (their eyes were freakishly large at this point, kind of like little birds), but it was still a double whammy to find her dead and see each individual dead baby. There were 12 of them in a very small mom.

I found it disturbing when a female Jackson's died and we cut her open once. Her babies were far enough along that they looked complete too. We were wishing that they could have been saved.