Recent content by Shari777

So here are the pictures of my hen. The first one is a few days after the flystrike (August 27) where you can see her internal lining bulging out where her skin was eaten away by the maggots. (I initially thought it was an abscess, but thankfully the knowledgeable folks here told me it wasn’t...

So I’m finally posting an update for my hen. I’ll give a quick recap first: I found my hen with most of her backside feathers gone, what looked like a big bulging abscess (it was NOT an abscess) and a bunch of maggots crawling around. I immediately got a tweezers and spent about an hour picking...

Actually, she’s doing ok at the moment. I really don’t think the vet option would work seeing as how she is 6.5 years old. But I’ve been bathing her in Epsom salts and now rubbing antibiotic ointment on her. She’s eating and walking around. The bulge on her backside, that I’ve been informed is...

Thank you everyone for your responses. I had not seen many of them till just now - sorry new to this board. I will try to get a better picture. It’s very concerning if that bulge could actually be her stomach lining. What can be done about that? I was not aware of flystrike or it’s devastating...

Thank you again for your response. It was definitely flystrike, but that bulge is quite a bit below her vent, so I’m pretty sure it’s not a prolapsed vent. Looks like an abscess to me. But not sure what I should do about it if it is. But of course the first concern is her belly and whether or...

Right. But I’m not certain she is egg bound…

I don’t know what’s wrong with my hen. She’s about 6.5 years old. She’s had a messy bottom for a week or two. This has happened to my hens in the past and always sorts itself out, so I didn’t think anything of it. Then, about two days ago I noticed there weren’t really any feathers on it. As I...