#overcomingflystrike

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    One girl with fly strike - anything I can do to see/stop other hens that might also have?

    We're in New Zealand. Our one 4 yr old orpington is at the emergency vet - and we're hoping will pull thru but not confident. It's a bad bad wound. And I've been worried about our other girl that also gets poop stuck to the backside (others are pretty good at cleaning, but they're all have at...
  2. Honey_the_Pekin

    Pekin Duck with flystrike ???

    I just moved to Alabama from Ohio and I brought my two pet Pekin ducks of course. well on one of them I noticed there was what looked like dirt or poop all over her behind/vent area. Well when I got a closer look there were maggots everywhere on her skin, just eating away at her 😢. There was no...
  3. firstimechixmom

    Aggressive Behavior in Recovering Hen

    One of my hens recently endured a horrible flystrike. She is the one in my flock that won't let me touch her, which has been do-able because she's also very food-driven and I could always coax her back to the coop or trick-grab her if needed, etc. She is (was) always the chubby, greedy one of...
  4. D

    Fly Strike

    I was devastated to find Marybeth my silver laced Wyandotte with fly strike Wednesday morning. I started bathing her to remove the maggots. I did this about 7 times that day and continuing 3xs a day through Friday. Saturday I bathed her twice and once Sunday since I was no longer seeing any...
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