Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[bgmathteach]

Oh how awful. All that just from a poopy butt?! Surely she must have had some injury to start with no?
I do hope she will be OK.

Flystrike. Warm, moist weather, poopy bottom that the flies would lay in/on (their eggs, that is)...next thing you know the eggs are hatching into larva and they are burrowing into the flesh to eat and grow.

I thin Alex dealt with it with Jaffar a year or two ago. Nasty, that is; she will have to monitor it daily to make sure no more larva, and keep after the wound. Poor dear girl....nasty dirty flies!

Maybe @featherhead007 would fill in @Ponypoor regarding the time line for removing larvae and the wound healing ...if I remember correctly, it was a disgusting thing and took constant attention until it was cleared up. Not just for the current fly eggs/larvae, but to be sure they didn't lay again in the open wound. Again, disgusting things...I don't envy you nor your hen, Kelly

 

[Ponypoor]

Flystrike. Warm, moist weather, poopy bottom that the flies would lay in/on (their eggs, that is)...next thing you know the eggs are hatching into larva and they are burrowing into the flesh to eat and grow.

I thin Alex dealt with it with Jaffar a year or two ago. Nasty, that is; she will have to monitor it daily to make sure no more larva, and keep after the wound. Poor dear girl....nasty dirty flies!

Maybe @featherhead007 would fill in @Ponypoor regarding the time line for removing larvae and the wound healing ...if I remember correctly, it was a disgusting thing and took constant attention until it was cleared up. Not just for the current fly eggs/larvae, but to be sure they didn't lay again in the open wound. Again, disgusting things...I don't envy you nor your hen, Kelly

I just checked her, I didn’t see any more maggots, and the wound is dry, but yes need to monitor it frequently, I will at least three times a day.

Hopefully the ivermectin takes care of any I missed, if I don’t see any further maggots in a few days I will start treating for the necrotic tissue. If she survives that long.

I have a feeling she is laying internally like Tuff and likely has malignant tumours - if she doesn’t perk up in a couple days I will likely euthanize her.

Meanwhile pain meds and antibiotics for the poor wee gal.

 

[featherhead007]

I just checked her, I didn’t see any more maggots, and the wound is dry, but yes need to monitor it frequently, I will at least three times a day.

Hopefully the ivermectin takes care of any I missed, if I don’t see any further maggots in a few days I will start treating for the necrotic tissue. If she survives that long.

I have a feeling she is laying internally like Tuff and likely has malignant tumours - if she doesn’t perk up in a couple days I will likely euthanize her.

Meanwhile pain meds and antibiotics for the poor wee gal.

Sorry she’s going through this horrific experience

 

[Ponypoor]

Sorry about that. Sounds really nasty. You are taking good care of her. Supposedly the eggs can still hatch later so she will need more check and possibly more cleaning.

Was she acting off in any way other than poopy butt?

She has had some difficulty breathing at times and she seemed to have a distended abdomen like Tuff, but I was reluctant to try draining u less I saw her gasping breathing like Tuff was doing. Every time you poke their abdomen you risk infection.

She had a poopy butt that got worse, and I didn’t monitor it. I was complacent and now she is suffering. Everyone gets a Brazilian trim tomorrow and fluffy butts goodbye. And no more greens. They can eat grass and such but no more leftovers or corn or cabbage until winter.

I she survives it will be a long shot.

Right now she is upright so that’s good. We will see what morning brings.

 

[featherhead007]

Sorry she’s going through this horrific experience

Jaffar made it through his experience because I had removed all the maggots from his body. Picked out every little beast one at a time. Soaking him in water and permethrin 10 and keeping him soaking until I was sure that I got them all out.

 

[Ponypoor]

Jaffar made it through his experience because I had removed all the maggots from his body. Picked out every little beast one at a time. Soaking him in water and permethrin 10 and keeping him soaking until I was sure that I got them all out.

It’s tedious work, plucking all those nasty critters. And of course her skin became raw with everything so it’s going to need a lot of TLC, I will need to put some ointment on it when I am sure there are no more maggots or eggs hatching.

poor Red’s belly is just raw, if she survives it will be a long shot, but I will help her as long as she is able to stand any treatments and meds.

Just a warnin to all to check those butts daily and jump on any poopy butts right away so you don’t get this mess

 

[rural mouse]

Went out to close the coop this evening. Probably the first true head count I've done in a week. Between shock, grief, exhaustion, and home after full dark, the head count hasn't happened.

Silver was missing. Went looking. Finally found her body. Other side of the olive trees, near the favorite dust bathing area. Over the last several weeks, I would occasionally see something that made me look at her more closely. I checked her over and the only thing I found was she was on the skinny side. Mixed up an easy to eat, loaded with extra nutrients mash which got her eating again. Kept an eye on her to make sure she was eating (she was), but the niggling thought of something internal going on popped up. I suspect that's what took her. She passed with the whole tribe around her, but I couldn't say for sure when.

Silver was the Queen. She was also the last of the 4 that started my tribe, gift from my much-loved MI, who raised her as a chick. Silver is now with the wonderful lady who raised her, cuddled her, and let her go to become Queen here.

I will have to do some observation to see of Pear stepped up or not. She was up around the house some yesterday (kind of unusual for her) and Cheetah and Blanche were on the south side at one point (also unusual) and Twirp was on the west side (not unusual). All while we were dressing for the funeral. Pear is next oldest. After her, Cheetah and the 7 ladies are the same age: Blanche, PITA, Cuckoo, Thing, Twirp, Jessica, and Nellie. Storm is 9 weeks younger and was raised jointly by Silver and Pear when she was orphaned at 3 weeks.

Rest in peace sweet lady. May your raising of every single one of the rest of the tribe demonstrate your smarts, sweetness, and common sense.

 

[Lilion]

I just checked her, I didn’t see any more maggots, and the wound is dry, but yes need to monitor it frequently, I will at least three times a day.

Hopefully the ivermectin takes care of any I missed, if I don’t see any further maggots in a few days I will start treating for the necrotic tissue. If she survives that long.

I have a feeling she is laying internally like Tuff and likely has malignant tumours - if she doesn’t perk up in a couple days I will likely euthanize her.

Meanwhile pain meds and antibiotics for the poor wee gal.

I just can't imagine. Poor her and poor you. I'm not at all sure I could do it. I guess you never know until you have to.

Look what I found when I went to shut the chicken coop!

That's right! Little Eenie with her huge children tucked up under her, up on the platform! I'd rather they were over by the roosts instead of by the nests, but I'll take it!

 

[ChicoryBlue]

What a day, I spent the morning doing my job hunt - not sure who thinks there is a shortage of workers…. I don’t see it at all.

Anywhoo then I noted one of my nieces hens had a poppy butt so I went and started washing it, and that’s when all sh1t hit the fan.

Upon removing poops I turned her over and she was crawling maggots. Lots of swearing and running around gathering supplies to deal with that. Tripping over stupid roosters (yep they are all going except Mr P of course), trying to remove maggots, I cut off all her feathers as close to the skin as I could, then I washed her again in a bath of disinfectant soap, trying to scrub the maggots off her skin, and once I got the ones off I could I flipped her over again and inspected her.

It looked like a pocket where more maggots were residing so I flushed that with peroxide and them rinsed her off in another bath.

Then I hauled out the tweezers and started picking off maggots. Then I got out the blow dryer and dried her off. Once she was dry I could see the full extent of her wounds, her belly seems to have necrotic tissue and I could still see maggots lurking in part of the wound.

I had to wait while they came out into the air, so I dosed her with Ivermectin to kill the little flickers, I also hat her a mega dose of antibiotics (500mg of Amoxicillin), 1/2 a low dose aspirin and Tylenol. If they doesn’t kill her and she survives the maggots and her skin heals she might be ok.

Then it was back to plucking maggots, I grabbed a few more and couldn’t see any more so I gave her some mash, and put her in the large crate away from anyone who wanted to peck her.

I cannot tell you all how guilty I feel for not nipping this in the bud sooner. Totally my fault for not keeping on top of poopy butts. Poor Red

Tomorrow anyone with a remotely poopy butt is getting a Brazilian done.

for your guilt, better late than never also applies here! What about a soothing ointment on her wounds maybe? A very low dose lidocaine cream, or a salve? Question - If they die while half in her skin, do you bathe her again,once a day or at some interval, to try to stop infection?

 

[Lilion]

Went out to close the coop this evening. Probably the first true head count I've done in a week. Between shock, grief, exhaustion, and home after full dark, the head count hasn't happened.

Silver was missing. Went looking. Finally found her body. Other side of the olive trees, near the favorite dust bathing area. Over the last several weeks, I would occasionally see something that made me look at her more closely. I checked her over and the only thing I found was she was on the skinny side. Mixed up an easy to eat, loaded with extra nutrients mash which got her eating again. Kept an eye on her to make sure she was eating (she was), but the niggling thought of something internal going on popped up. I suspect that's what took her. She passed with the whole tribe around her, but I couldn't say for sure when.

Silver was the Queen. She was also the last of the 4 that started my tribe, gift from my much-loved MI, who raised her as a chick. Silver is now with the wonderful lady who raised her, cuddled her, and let her go to become Queen here.

I will have to do some observation to see of Pear stepped up or not. She was up around the house some yesterday (kind of unusual for her) and Cheetah and Blanche were on the south side at one point (also unusual) and Twirp was on the west side (not unusual). All while we were dressing for the funeral. Pear is next oldest. After her, Cheetah and the 7 ladies are the same age: Blanche, PITA, Cuckoo, Thing, Twirp, Jessica, and Nellie. Storm is 9 weeks younger and was raised jointly by Silver and Pear when she was orphaned at 3 weeks.

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Oh I'm sorry.