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.

 

[wafflecat62]

Ty, I have some bird vits I can give her

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.

 

[wafflecat62]

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?


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I had just cleaned her again, gave her a bath trying to get off most dirt I could but as you'll see a couple of inches under her vent there are still attached poops that are very hard to take off so I'll keep trying later. Scraped any dead tissue that was falling off but didn't even see a single maggot. Any black stuff on the border of the vent/wound is not poop, it's necrosis which it's still too attached to fall off.

First photo: I circled over her vent where you can noticed a bulge which is hard to the touch and where the maggots went probably.

Second photo: opening her vent a bit to see better, now that I saw her with better light I see that half of her vent was attacked by the maggots, draw the shape of her vent with blue.

Third photo: the hole maggots ate trought, that's were the only msggot I found was, and I can see at least 3 tiny holes inside that flesh, but again I didn’t see any. I flushed this with ivermectin which will kill any maggot and make the move.

I'll get some insumes to keep healing her and flush her better. I'll try to find that triple antibiotic or take her to the vet tomorrow for a shot of that.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I had just cleaned her again, gave her a bath trying to get off most dirt I could but as you'll see a couple of inches under her vent there are still attached poops that are very hard to take off so I'll keep trying later. Scraped any dead tissue that was falling off but didn't even see a single maggot. Any black stuff on the border of the vent/wound is not poop, it's necrosis which it's still too attached to fall off.

First photo: I circled over her vent where you can noticed a bulge which is hard to the touch and where the maggots went probably.

Second photo: opening her vent a bit to see better, now that I saw her with better light I see that half of her vent was attacked by the maggots, draw the shape of her vent with blue.

Third photo: the hole maggots ate trought, that's were the only msggot I found was, and I can see at least 3 tiny holes inside that flesh, but again I didn’t see any. I flushed this with ivermectin which will kill any maggot and make the move.

I'll get some insumes to keep healing her and flush her better. I'll try to find that triple antibiotic or take her to the vet tomorrow for a shot of that.

Sounds like you are doing everything you can. It can take a while for the dead tissue to slough off, so just keep working on it like you have been. Keep the tissue coated with ointment or oil.

Keep us posted on how she's doing.