- Aug 23, 2011
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We just discovered our most curious and vocal hen has flystrike. We've cleaned and sanitized everything appropriately, and have treated her as per researching here at BYC. She's a 2 year old Delaware, and lays about 6 eggs a week. We've been experiencing a heat wave here, and the hens have been laying less over all. Her poop is not normal, saliva like with marbled white and some tubular pieces of darkbrown/black. No maggots have been observed in the last four movements she has had. We have soaked, tweezed, antisepticized, and treated. I was not aware of this problem until 11p.m. and am also unaware of if she was eating/acting normally all day. Yesterday she was presenting fine.
This is our first flock. There is something protruding out of her vent and I am unsure of what it is. I hesitated on tugging/removing it for the fear of it being part of her innerds. I suspect it is some part egg, but that is just the best guess i can make after searching prolapse pics. The piece is about an inch long, medium/light brown in color. it does appear to be tubular in shape, though more like a deflated ballon would be flattened. It looks as though it is getting dry (it does not look like live tissue). The end of it may be closed, or just together in such a way that it is decieving. I did not squeeze, pinch, or pull bc of my uncertainty. I haven't any idea what it may be called to even search for it. She is safely resting in the house now, taking food and water. In the picture below she is wet and shiny from treating the maggots. Can anyone tell me what it is and what i need to do about it? thanks in advance for any assistance!
This is our first flock. There is something protruding out of her vent and I am unsure of what it is. I hesitated on tugging/removing it for the fear of it being part of her innerds. I suspect it is some part egg, but that is just the best guess i can make after searching prolapse pics. The piece is about an inch long, medium/light brown in color. it does appear to be tubular in shape, though more like a deflated ballon would be flattened. It looks as though it is getting dry (it does not look like live tissue). The end of it may be closed, or just together in such a way that it is decieving. I did not squeeze, pinch, or pull bc of my uncertainty. I haven't any idea what it may be called to even search for it. She is safely resting in the house now, taking food and water. In the picture below she is wet and shiny from treating the maggots. Can anyone tell me what it is and what i need to do about it? thanks in advance for any assistance!
