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    Bad flystrike. 100s of maggots large openwound do i kill her or try to help?

    It also smells bad most likely very infected
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    Bad flystrike. 100s of maggots large openwound do i kill her or try to help?

    Large open wound out of nowere seemed fine yesterday now wont open eyes. Or get up. Found her today not moving with lots of flys around her Pockets and canals of them i rinsed and rinsed used peroxide the more i clean the more i find. There coming in and out of skin maybr 1/3 of body found one...
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    When to use penicillin g? Hen attacked badly 4 hours ago.

    Things are looking up. Shes always standing pretty much acting normal. Ive been giving her space just coming in to do the neccesary. Shes the most wild of my hens not really much for petting like her half sister. Shes layed 2 eggs since the incident which surprised me i thought she was mostly...
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    When to use penicillin g? Hen attacked badly 4 hours ago.

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    When to use penicillin g? Hen attacked badly 4 hours ago.

    Shes been eating and drinking bit. Shes got one eye shut now i think neosporin got in it not sure what to do about that. I got some vetericym for cleaning the wounds. There is some extra skin at the base of her kneck wonderin if theres away to pull it up a bit.
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    When to use penicillin g? Hen attacked badly 4 hours ago.

    THANK YOU. Those are very helpful threads.
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    When to use penicillin g? Hen attacked badly 4 hours ago.

    Thank you i made saline rinsed them out. Found two more wounds rinsed them and smothered her head wound with neosporin but she started shivering so i let her be again she ate and drank water. Will dress the other ones before bed. Both back ends of her jawbones are exposed and clicking when she...
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    When to use penicillin g? Hen attacked badly 4 hours ago.

    Okay thank you all very much for the replies. They are all better then what i could find googling. So just rinse with salt water and apply neosporin often. Also buy betadine to clean. And dont use antibiotics unless it becomes infected. Should i shower her to find any other wounds or just rinse...
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    When to use penicillin g? Hen attacked badly 4 hours ago.

    Woke up to the noise of chicken getting attacked ran outside 5am. 6 year old large hen. Ran from raccon after being plucked alive. Called dog outside because she usually helps chase the coons out. But she found the chicken and carried it to me i had to pull her off and put her inside. Hen ran in...
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