Flystrike, need help (WARNING sensitive content)

[wafflecat62]

Hi one of my hens is having a myiasis in her vent, she has this issue some weeks ago and recovered but it's back. The last time the maggots were tiny and visible and extracted them all without much effort, but now I can't see them, the yellowish tissue is what I guess the old tissue they already ate trought? I managed to take off a single kind of huge maggot that was inside a tiny hole. How should I proceed? I'm not sure if I should clean off that dead skin or let it heal or fall off by itself, a bit pieces came off just by cleaning the wound.

What I'm using:
-cleaning with epsom salt water and at first iopivodine.
-flushing with ivermectin 1% which kills the maggots and eggs
-just to avoid flies from laying more eggs sprayed with silver spray which keeps the maggots and flies away.

Tomorrow I'll keep cleaning with iopovidone solution, ivermectin and give her a shot of ivermectin to kill any maggot that I can't reach by now.

Do I need any antibiotic? Change something? Since I can't see the maggots I'm confused about determinating how bad the situation is.

Description of the image: that's her wound, its not taken from.the best angle... the pink part is her vent and the yellowish part is her tissue that was attacked by maggot. There are poop attached I still need to clean and the weird feathers on the left are just sprayed with the silver spray.

 

[Debbie292d]

The second post in this thread (and maybe more) should help you.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/severe-flystrike-urgent.1486852/

I'd also get her on some vitamins to help her as she's probably getting worn down. We'd use Poultry Cell or Nutri-Drench in her water every other day.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

she has this issue some weeks ago and recovered but it's back. The last time the maggots were tiny and visible and extracted them all without much effort, but now I can't see them, the yellowish tissue is what I guess the old tissue they already ate trought? I managed to take off a single kind of huge maggot that was inside a tiny hole. How should I proceed?

I'm not sure if I should clean off that dead skin or let it heal or fall off by itself, a bit pieces came off just by cleaning the wound.

What I'm using:
-cleaning with epsom salt water and at first iopivodine.
-flushing with ivermectin 1% which kills the maggots and eggs
-just to avoid flies from laying more eggs sprayed with silver spray which keeps the maggots and flies away.

Do I need any antibiotic? Change something? Since I can't see the maggots I'm confused about determinating how bad the situation is.

the pink part is her vent and the yellowish part is her tissue that was attacked by maggot.

Can you take a more wide angle photo?
The pink part is her vent? If so, its an odd shape.

I'd flush and rinse the wound out generously. I think I'd use some soapy water and remove as much poop and dead tissue as possible.

If you are finding large maggots now, they have invaded the wound, perhaps the lower part of that open area that looks like it's bulged out.

Once cleaned up really well, all maggots you find picked out. Apply triple antibiotic ointment. Rinse/soak and pick out maggots at least 2X a day.

You may find that using something like SWAT may be more effective keeping Flies off the wound than Silver Spray. She really needs to be kept where flies can't get to her (inside) until she heals up.

Does she also have Mites or Lice?

Hi one of my hens is having a myiasis in her vent, she has this issue some weeks ago and recovered but it's back. The last time the maggots were tiny and visible and extracted them all without much effort, but now I can't see them, the yellowish tissue is what I guess the old tissue they already ate trought? I managed to take off a single kind of huge maggot that was inside a tiny hole. How should I proceed? I'm not sure if I should clean off that dead skin or let it heal or fall off by itself, a bit pieces came off just by cleaning the wound.

What I'm using:
-cleaning with epsom salt water and at first iopivodine.
-flushing with ivermectin 1% which kills the maggots and eggs
-just to avoid flies from laying more eggs sprayed with silver spray which keeps the maggots and flies away.

Tomorrow I'll keep cleaning with iopovidone solution, ivermectin and give her a shot of ivermectin to kill any maggot that I can't reach by now.

Do I need any antibiotic? Change something? Since I can't see the maggots I'm confused about determinating how bad the situation is.

Description of the image: that's her wound, its not taken from.the best angle... the pink part is her vent and the yellowish part is her tissue that was attacked by maggot. There are poop attached I still need to clean and the weird feathers on the left are just sprayed with the silver spray.