hen wounded, can't get rid of the maggots

vetwrap is good stuff i use it for my horses too. also mealworms are great source of protein to help the wound healing process. also you can clean the wound with steripods and be careful not to wipe of any white stuff you might see (smell it so you know its not infection) as this is the protein the body lays down on the wound like a mesh so new cells can grow onto it etc
 
WOW! Sammi's wound looks ALMOST EXACTLY like Rachel's!!! Did you see the pics that I posted? I think Sammi is going to be alright if I can compare her to Rachel at all. I did not have any luck with vetwrap I think because of the location. I just needed to use soooo much of the stuff to keep it from sliding backwards off her butt. I tried the onesie option with limited success. I think if i had tried the ziptie thing to hold it better it would have worked. I'll have to remember that one!
Please keep us posted with how she is doing!
 
Sammi update:

Her wound is healing nicely, it's smaller and skin that is growing is looking healthy. She still has a pretty severe limp. Apparently, her left leg was injured internally, we can't seem to locate anything obvious. But at least she is able to get around a bit now.

We brought her outside for the first time yesterday. She loved it! We tried to slowly reintroduce her to the other chickens. They seemed to want to bully her a bit. My daughter was pretty protective of Sammi and wouldn't let them get too close after a couple seemed to peck at her. We thought we should keep bringing her out with them a little at a time and see if they will just get used to her again. Any advice on this?

She is a lot smaller than the others, one is the same kind, an australorp. I'm sure part of that is her missing feathers, but also I think her healing has taken a lot of what would have gone into her growth the last almost month. She looked a bit pathetic with her old cronies, small, limping, only one tail feather. Poor dear!
 
We found some kittens earlier this month that had wounds infested with maggots. This is what we did. We submerged the wound in water for a minute or so. Then use tweasers to pull the maggots out. We did this several times. We flushed with Hydrogen peroxcide. covered in anti biotic cream. We did this morning and night till there wasn't any more. The kittens are fine now. all and all we probably got 75+ maggots out of two 3week old kittens
 
Take her inside try to get the most maggots off and put gasoline on it . Then come back and see if any more maggots came back on it and pull them off
 
Hi, Well live in the Blue Mtns of Oregon, down a dirt road off a highway in the back of nowhere. We have lots of wildlife (cougar, bears, lynx, fox, coyote, deer, elk) . The hens have a secure house and about a 1/8 acre of fenced (5') to run around in and until this year we really had no problems, but with the drought (6th year) and heat we are getting more animals coming down to our creek, pond, meadows, and sleeping under the trees).

Crazie Chickie was smacked by a bear almost 3 weeks ago. She is about 7 and was simply slower than the rest of the hens, the bear came over the fence to eat the feed. I saw it happen from the kitchen window and screamed and pounded on the wall and the bear turned to look at me and CC made her escape, running and hiding under a tarp in the wood shed.

Well Crazy Chickie wants you to know she is trying to get better. At first we thought she was just in shock for 3 days and we had her in a cage in the back bedroom. But she really did get hurt by the bear and it took a couple of weeks for the abscess on her back thigh to break and us to see it. Mom has been rinsing her wound several times a day with a half gallon of warm water with a tablespoon of Clorox and 6 drops of Dawn in it. The maggots were pretty bad but the soldiers in SE Asia in WW2 used them to clean wounds, so maybe that is ok. Now mom sprays a little OFF repellant near her rear to keep the flies away and it seems to be working. DEET is not good, but neither is death.

Ole CC is down to about a pound and is all bones and feathers. The Vet says they don't do chickens and just kill her, but Mom says pfffft. So we went to Ranch and Home and got the penicillin that they give Cattle and she uses an eye dropper to put it on little pieces of whole wheat bread and CC eats it (1/4 ml of the penicillin every 12 hours). This is day 3.5 of that and CC is a little perkier and spent part of the day yesterday eating grubs. CC now likes cilantro and has some in the nest area for a snack. The other hens are being nice, but they don't like her getting extra bread, so that is using bread up. The other hens scratch up the dirt and then stand back and let CC peck around. No one is being mean and Mom is going to make a new nest box for CC tomorrow since she doesn't want to climb on the branch to get up to the upper nests. Dad was going to dig a hole in the cemetery for her last weekend, but decided not to.

In fact this morning she came out of the hen house all by herself, first before the others got down and came out.

Today is the first day of a hydrogen peroxide flush and we will see how that is doing, so far so good.
 
We had to take Crazie Chickie to the our original vet this morning and have her put down. She just couldn't recover from the Bear injuries. When she couldn't walk this morning, it was time. Rest in Peace. The other hens are very upset, so we will be having a quiet day and watermelon for the wake.
 

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