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    Help with flystrike treatment--updated with pics in thread

    So sad news...we decided to put Usher down. Her wound looked good but our vet (who is more familiar with chickens than I realized) indicated that she was in a very fragile state. She had started mouth breathing, was still not eating willingly, and regurgitating fluid. He wasn't sure if...
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    Help with flystrike treatment--updated with pics in thread

    Thank you so much for all your feedback. She is a very sweet chicken, and my children are particularly attached because we got her (and the others in the flock) when my daughter was 2 and my son was a newborn. She's actually stopped eating and drinking from bowls, and seems unable to pick up...
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    Help with flystrike treatment--updated with pics in thread

    Thank you so much for your responses! Some pictures are below. The poop is runny and sparse, but I'm not seeing any maggot-y type things in it anymore so that seems good. We soaked her this morning and the wound is closed, but with fluid behind it (its clear...I worried it was pus and my...
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    Help with flystrike treatment--updated with pics in thread

    We discovered on Sunday night (two evenings ago) that our white cochin (Usher) had flystrike around her vent, and I spent an hour soaking her in saline and picking off ~80 maggots (Happy Mother's Day...ugh). She's upright and eating if we feed her (her regular feed, noodles, oatmeal, scrambled...
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