Chicken butt problems - cant find any info online!!!!

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Thegoodwife said:
Well I went to bring henny in for the night yesterday and had a look at her bum and it was fly blown again with maggots eating out several different areas around the original wound. I should have kept her inside instead of letting her with the flock so soon. I cleaned the wound this morning but by 3pm this afternoon there were hundreds more maggots spilling out of the new wound. She was lethargic and I thought she had died. Its only when I went to the crate to put her in the hole that I dug that I realized she was still alive. I had flashes through my head of just putting on my gloves and snapping her neck but for the life of me I cannot do it so I took her to the vet only half an hour ago and had her PTS. She was very skinny and stopped eating completely today. The wound and the maggots got too much for my poor girl, she put up a good fight though. I only wish I had kept her inside for longer and had the time to continue cleaning twice daily.

Thank you everyone for your support and comments and for not passing judgment. I did the best I could.
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I'm so sorry for your loss. You worked so hard to try to save her. thanks for making such a great effort, and also for having her put down when the time came so she didn't suffer. Take care.
 
Thegoodwife said:
Well I went to bring henny in for the night yesterday and had a look at her bum and it was fly blown again with maggots eating out several different areas around the original wound. I should have kept her inside instead of letting her with the flock so soon. I cleaned the wound this morning but by 3pm this afternoon there were hundreds more maggots spilling out of the new wound. She was lethargic and I thought she had died. Its only when I went to the crate to put her in the hole that I dug that I realized she was still alive. I had flashes through my head of just putting on my gloves and snapping her neck but for the life of me I cannot do it so I took her to the vet only half an hour ago and had her PTS. She was very skinny and stopped eating completely today. The wound and the maggots got too much for my poor girl, she put up a good fight though. I only wish I had kept her inside for longer and had the time to continue cleaning twice daily.

Thank you everyone for your support and comments and for not passing judgment. I did the best I could.
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I'm sorry you lost Henny. With mine not long ago, I put Sevin powder on the maggots and waited a half hour before cleaning the wound. However, my hen died a few days later. On necropsy, she had egg yolk peritonitis. Someone mentioned her ailment could have changed her poo into something that was more tasty to flies. I think that's a good possibility . Henny may have died from something else internally.
 
The maggots ate away all the dead skin so it was a huge gaping wound. I cleaned it but as quickly as I removed the maggots more were appearing. I put her in a bucket of water and literally hundreds of 2 millimetre long maggots floated but there were still more coming out. She was eating and scratching again but the second time the wound opened up and the second large wound that the maggots got into was just too much, they were crawling in her bum hole too.

I feel like I should feel bad for not doing more but she was fine until the second fly strike and then it was only one night and one day until I realized it was too bad to keep going and took her to the vet. I feel like a **** person for perhaps not looking after my hens more. I know a few of them are under weight now and only one is still laying but I can only take preventative measures. I'm not spending hundreds at a vet. The amount of road kill I see every day makes me realize that while life if fragile the world doesn't stop or change when something dies. Not me or my chicken.
 

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