I can assure you that maggots do not just eat dead tissue. They were under her skin eating her alive. The same thing happens to sheep sometimes. It was absolutely dreadful. Perhaps different varieties of flies from different parts of the world produce different maggots- in Australia, these...
Hi everyone,
A few days ago I discovered to my horror that one of my chickens had maggots crawling under her skin on her belly. Nothing could be seen from the back and she seemed to be her usual self until that night so I had totally missed it. Instead of going back to her pen she snuck inside...