USMC chicken mommy
Chirping
- Feb 5, 2019
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This morning when I opened the coop door, I noticed something off with one of my buffs. (She’s a year and a half old) She was just slow to come out, which is far from the normal. She came out, tail down, and laid in the grass. So, I picked her up with very little resistance from her, still odd, and checked her out. Her butt was a poopy mess, so I showered her, trying to see how bad it was. It took me quite a minute to actually grasp what I was actually seeing.
About an inch below her vent, I thought I seen new feathers coming in. Nope. It was maggots in a dime size hole. After I literally lost my breakfast in the yard, I started to panic. I mean, freaking out kind of panic.
Apparently, the poopy butt has lead to flystrike. This is what I gathered from panic google searching.
So, with the wet hen in one arm, I start running warm/cool water in the tub, and we crawl in. I read where drowning the maggots is the key, and removing the ones who doesn’t drown manually is necessary. It’s fine, I don’t have anything else to vomit.
I trimmed all the feathers from the area, cleaned her butt up, and free from maggots, I dried her with the blow dryer on low, and sprayed the Vetericyn plus spray on the area, set up a make shift hospital cage in my laundry room thats air conditioned with food, water with a tad bit of apple cider vinegar, and bought the electrolyte mix for her next water supply. I will inspect and spray her butt 3 times tomorrow. She has eaten a few blueberries that I have seen, and she actually had a good solid poop earlier. Which is opposite of the runny poop she had on my shirt, down my leg and into my shoes earlier so that’s a plus.
Am I doing things correctly until I can get her to the vet Monday? You guys have always been such a great help...thanks in advance!
About an inch below her vent, I thought I seen new feathers coming in. Nope. It was maggots in a dime size hole. After I literally lost my breakfast in the yard, I started to panic. I mean, freaking out kind of panic.
Apparently, the poopy butt has lead to flystrike. This is what I gathered from panic google searching.
So, with the wet hen in one arm, I start running warm/cool water in the tub, and we crawl in. I read where drowning the maggots is the key, and removing the ones who doesn’t drown manually is necessary. It’s fine, I don’t have anything else to vomit.
I trimmed all the feathers from the area, cleaned her butt up, and free from maggots, I dried her with the blow dryer on low, and sprayed the Vetericyn plus spray on the area, set up a make shift hospital cage in my laundry room thats air conditioned with food, water with a tad bit of apple cider vinegar, and bought the electrolyte mix for her next water supply. I will inspect and spray her butt 3 times tomorrow. She has eaten a few blueberries that I have seen, and she actually had a good solid poop earlier. Which is opposite of the runny poop she had on my shirt, down my leg and into my shoes earlier so that’s a plus.
Am I doing things correctly until I can get her to the vet Monday? You guys have always been such a great help...thanks in advance!