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  1. Michigan Chicken

    How do you reduce swelling from flystrike?

    After a few weeks, the scab-tumor is much shrunken, flaking, and beginning to separate at the top. Hoping by wibter she will be fully recovered and I can reintegrate her with the flock.
  2. Michigan Chicken

    How do you reduce swelling from flystrike?

    4th morning, hen still looking lively, eating well, normal droppings. I think that tumor must be an immune response to wall off the maggot infested area, isolate it in a cyst, and allow the area behind it to form a new epidermis. If you look at the chicken from the front, you would never know...
  3. Michigan Chicken

    How do you reduce swelling from flystrike?

    maggots are gone, as far as I can tell. I haven't seen any since I first sprayed with flysx
  4. Michigan Chicken

    How do you reduce swelling from flystrike?

    just saw a post from another person, whose chicken had the same thing, exactly. They said the tumor hardened and eventually separated and fell off!
  5. Michigan Chicken

    Horrific fly strike

    very very good news. Similar deal with my hen. Will wait and see how she does. Hopefully her tumor will harden and fall off, too!
  6. Michigan Chicken

    please help I’m freaking out

    Is her belly swollen? I have seen hens do that in the final stages of water belly.
  7. Michigan Chicken

    How do you reduce swelling from flystrike?

    In another post, somebody autopsied something that looked just like this. Rotten and stinking inside. If she doesn't die in a few days, I am going to have to kill her.
  8. Michigan Chicken

    How do you reduce swelling from flystrike?

    Some more pictures from the side. I think it has gotten larger.
  9. Michigan Chicken

    How do you reduce swelling from flystrike?

    Honey can be a natural anti bacterial, but if your problem is flystrike, honey is going to attract more flies. And, I am using vetericin as an antibiotic. What would specifically reduce inflammation? Has anyone given a chicken aspirin ? How much? What was the result?
  10. Michigan Chicken

    How do you reduce swelling from flystrike?

    Older chicken with tumor like swelling, mainly due to flystrike, I think. Below vent. I have been soaking in salt water, applying vetericin and flysx spray. She is eating and seems comfortable, but this swelling needs to go down.
  11. Michigan Chicken

    Flystrike - how long to recover? Photos included!

    interested, following
  12. Michigan Chicken

    Michigan, long time chicken owner.

    This morning, after another soak
  13. Michigan Chicken

    Michigan, long time chicken owner.

    The hen is eating this morning, and looking quite perky. Surprises me. I soaked her twice in salt water yesterday, and put vetericin and flysx on the area. Last night it seemed to be crusting over, but couldn't tell if it was scabs or feces. This morning, she is doing normal droppings...
  14. Michigan Chicken

    Euthanize a Chicken Humanely - step by step

    Euthanizing is a problem for those of us never taught to behead them or cut an artery. In the one case of a chicken years ago who had been cannibalized and was in severe pain, and I couldn't letvher suffer anymore, I drowned her. It was quick, and not nearly as bad as what she was suffering.
  15. Michigan Chicken

    Hen's enlarged abdomen went away on it's own, then came back a few months later

    water belly, I think also called ascites(?) Caused by rooster, I have read, sort of an STD. I had trouble woth one flock getting that, not other flocks. Redstars I think.
  16. Michigan Chicken

    Tumor or Cyst on Hen's bottom

    That is what I have been doing. I suspect cannibalism may have led to the situation, although she was not spending the night with the other hens, and they are free ranging during the day, except this hen, now. I suspect gangrene. If she starts to be in terrible pain and this drags on, I will...
  17. Michigan Chicken

    Tumor or Cyst on Hen's bottom

  18. Michigan Chicken

    Michigan, long time chicken owner.

  19. Michigan Chicken

    Tumor or Cyst on Hen's bottom

    someone in that coop has been laying shelless eggs and weak shelled eggs. As the other person suggested, it could be a smashed egg inside her.
  20. Michigan Chicken

    Tumor or Cyst on Hen's bottom

    could be. It is egg sized. Looks for all the world like a pus covered egg trying to break through the hen's belly. I just soaked her in salt water again and sprayed with a livestock insecticide and an anti bacterial. She is surprisingly lively. Hard to get a photo while holding her upside...
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