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Botulism is not what catches my eye when it comes to chickens eating maggots from a carcass. What gets me is the fact that carrion beetles with warning coloration that associate with such carcasses are actively avoided by my chickens. The birds produce a response that I think communicates...

Carcasses I used with fox, raccoons, opossums, grass carp, and rainbow trout. No indirect cannibal action with that approach. Chickens also used but resorted to doing that in other locations.

Stepping away from light of scrutiny I see. I will still try to do my part.

Next time take a picture of the flies laying the eggs. I will do the same.

Those I deal with are not BSF maggots. Some folks I am working with are using them as fish feeds just fine.

Maggot species? Are maggots in midst of the putrid mass when consumed by the chickens? The details can be important as we try to understand differences in observations.

What species of fly do the maggots represent? Those I deal with are dominated by some sort of blow fly. Results might differ is maggots move some distance from the carcass which they do not do with my setups. When I pull carcass remains up to expose pupae, the chickens also seem to avoid...

I keep dead carcasses a lot, even keeping them in live-traps or under pens normally used to house chickens. I do so to observe carrion related insects. without my own dogs or resident Opossum stealing my study. Free-range chickens have access to areas where maggots move about. I have yet to...