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    Thank you, she has grit now and a new bigger place to hang out. She's been scratching around and preening, and overall acting fairly normal. I set a 2x4 in there to see if she would roost but she still is laying down at night. The sore on her breastbone is still there, mostly unchanged in...
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    Great thank you. We've never offered grit to adults because they are mostly free range and have easy access to areas of gravel, patches of sand and the exposed garden soils, and so far seem to be fine with that (I've seen them swallow larger pebbles than I was comfortable with, but as you said...
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    Another success, 30 min soak today and again no maggots, so feeling we might be on the winning side of that part for sure. I'm probably going to keep up a daily epsom salt soak with a squirt of Hibiclens for a little while longer, but shorten to 15 min for the sake of both of us now we are not...
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    Thank you Bsmac, I'll let her know she is pretty. I'm fairly far from most folks I know that might have a crate to borrow, and I feel like she's going to have to be confined for a while. But I have plenty of scrap wood, some wire and tools so going to try to bang together an enclosure this...
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    We never would have made it this far without your help and expertise, and all the other invaluable information you have built up on this platform. I don't have a lot of colloidal silver experience, but recently it has worked magic topically on our 11 yo heelers allergy related hot spots we...
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    ❤️ Thank you all so much. Your help and support mean a lot to me. We got to soaking a little late today, but this is the first one we are finally maggot free. I am so happy for her! I don’t know how deep under her skin they had gone, so could be more that are really lodged I can’t see, but...
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    I had to go out anyway so got some triple antibiotic cream without painkillers, and the betadine arrived while I was out (thank you on the tip for generic, I will keep that in mind for the future). Seems like two important things I should have in the kit for animals and humans. Besides the...
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    Thank you all so much again. She does seem to have a prominent breast bone, and has been doing a lot of laying down and she is sleeping laying down. I will keep an eye on it regardless, and hit it with treatments as well. Her crate is not that big. She can stand comfortably with plenty of...
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    I know. I think the pictures make it look deeper, I took them when it was still flooded with saline to see better underneath, and this is also immediately after she had soaked for 30 minutes so her skin had absorbed some water. But don't get me wrong, I know its still really bad, and I'm very...
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    Ok, graphic photo update. This was after her 30 min soak this morning, was hoping we were getting to the maggot free stage but still got another 6 or 7 biggish ones (I'm assuming these are the round that was smalls when we started). The good I guess is that I am not seeing other sizes, so...
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    In thinking about this last night, based on the number of large maggots I have removed (30+ probably, most of which I got in the first long soak) and the size of the wound (assuming there isn't a giant under skin space), it is probably entirely possible this wound happened in the space of the...
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    UPDATED serious flystrike

    I really appreciate everyone's advice and support. I considered trimming feathers earlier, but a lot of the ones in the immediate area are pin feathers and newer looking feathers in different stages. I know I shouldn't cut the pin feathers but is there a way to know when they are mature enough...
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    Yes, I have some syringes someplace I will try that when I do a saline flush soon. Fortunately I don't believe the under skin hole (at least the opening to it) is nearly big enough for a turkey baster. Earlier I had filled the open area with vetermycin and tilted her so it ran into the under...
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    Thank you so much for your support Mary. I was worried they could get elsewhere, a few of them on her first soak tried to climb up on her back, concerned there may have been tiny ones I missed. I was using pyrethrin, and just on the wound, but I might switch to one of the permetherin products...
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    Discouraging update. I did another Epsom salt soak with her, another full 30 min because I didn't see the first maggot until about the 15 min mark. I ended up with 7 I think, three sizes now, the new smallest size is less than 2 mm so assuming that may have hatched since we started the soaks...
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