HEEELLPP!! Emergency!!

[chixcoop]

Sorry to butt in on the thread

. I have no experience with this yet and can't offer any insight on the subject BUT I have read lots of folks are going thru this right now. This thread is very old so many will not see it. Is there any way u could start a new thread under the emergency/diseases topic? I'm certain you will get lots of good advice and maybe even save your roo. Good luck and best wishes

No apology needed! My first thought when writing on this thread is that it is really old

and I am quite surprised that People were able to see that someone has posted

! I have actually started various new threads, but this was ironically one of the more successful threads that I got in terms of replies.

Here are the other threads that I have started related to my rooster's well being:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1012102/can-maggots-survive-if-there-is-no-cut-or-wound

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1012077/will-maggost-die-if-they-are-left-in-a-chickens-butt

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1011962/my-rooster-has-poop-stuck-to-his-butt

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1011481/can-a-rooster-control-the-shape-of-his-comb

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1011218/look-at-my-rooster

 

[Mr Beaks]

Sorry to butt in on the thread . I have no experience with this yet and can't offer any insight on the subject BUT I have read lots of folks are going thru this right now. This thread is very old so many will not see it. Is there any way u could start a new thread under the emergency/diseases topic? I'm certain you will get lots of good advice and maybe even save your roo. Good luck and best wishes

No apology needed! My first thought when writing on this thread is that it is really old and I am quite surprised that People were able to see that someone has posted ! I have actually started various new threads, but this was ironically one of the more successful threads that I got in terms of replies.

Here are the other threads that I have started related to my rooster's well being:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1012102/can-maggots-survive-if-there-is-no-cut-or-wound

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1012077/will-maggost-die-if-they-are-left-in-a-chickens-butt

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1011962/my-rooster-has-poop-stuck-to-his-butt

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1011481/can-a-rooster-control-the-shape-of-his-comb

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1011218/look-at-my-rooster

Oh, wow! That's a lot of threads! Here's what I would do...

1. Offer vitamins & electrolytes in the water.
2. Bathe/submerge the affected area in water to drown the maggots.
3. Remove ALL visible maggots in, on and around the wounds and/or vent.
4. Flush wounds with Betaine diluted in water OR saline water.
Peroxide can be used once or twice but do not continue to use as
it can kill live tissue and prevent proper healing.
5. Dry affected area completely.
6. Spray Vetericyn Wound & Infection treatment (found at TSC & other farm stores)
on areas affected by flystrike. Avoid ointments as maggots are attracted to warm, moist
environments.
7. Repeat steps 2 - 6 two or three times per day until maggots are gone and wounds are fully healed.

This info. was obtained from the chicken chick site. Hopefully it helps
Good luck to you and your handsome roo.

 

[chixcoop]

Oh, wow! That's a lot of threads! Here's what I would do...

1. Offer vitamins & electrolytes in the water.
2. Bathe/submerge the affected area in water to drown the maggots.
3. Remove ALL visible maggots in, on and around the wounds and/or vent.
4. Flush wounds with Betaine diluted in water OR saline water.
Peroxide can be used once or twice but do not continue to use as
it can kill live tissue and prevent proper healing.
5. Dry affected area completely.
6. Spray Vetericyn Wound & Infection treatment (found at TSC & other farm stores)
on areas affected by flystrike. Avoid ointments as maggots are attracted to warm, moist
environments.
7. Repeat steps 2 - 6 two or three times per day until maggots are gone and wounds are fully healed.

This info. was obtained from the chicken chick site. Hopefully it helps

Good luck to you and your handsome roo.

Thanks. I tried steps 2,3,4(I used saline solution) and 5, but I realized that he has a bad leg, and even if I do get every single maggot off his butt, he sitll will have a bad leg, which will cause him to lay down, and that will cause him to sit in his poop, and he will have fly strike all over again.

 

[cheepcheep riri]

Yes, if the problem was just the maggots I would feel better about his chances of survival. However, while cleaning him today I noticed that his leg is hurt. It felt stiff, and was not able to be moved around as much as the other leg while we were picking him up. See how is left leg is straight out, but his right leg is bent and moving around? Before while he was limping, it was on his left leg. I don't know how long this will last, or how long it will take for him to heal. About the peroxide method. If I need to, I should just put him in a blue rubber maid container with a lid, put a bowl filled with peroxide and baking soda mixed together, and wait a couple hours? Then he will be dead? Painless? Like falling asleep? Pics of cleaning https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...-if-there-is-no-cut-or-wound/10#post_15684964

I have never used it, much more have to kill a chick. But they say that. There is a forum on it, I'll find it...

 

[cheepcheep riri]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/208641/how-to-humanely-euthanize-a-chicken

 

[enola]

Okay here's the thing. Once maggots get into the vent, the rooster usually doesn't make it without vet care. If you cannot get him antibiotics or to a vet, just put him out of his misery. Don't feed the maggots to anyone, you don't want a live maggot stuck in a chicken's stomach. Please consider euthanizing if you cannot afford a vet.

When chickens EAT maggots, they are digested. The maggots will not survive being swallowed. Actually, they are excellent protein.

Maggots crawling in and out of chickens is a completely different matter.

 

[Wolfsbane]

I had a Hen who had maggots covering her, she had been cut by a roosters spur and I didn’t notice it because it was hidden by her wing but when I saw the maggots I freaked out but thought up a way to stop them which may or may not be a good way of doing it but it worked.

I gave her a couple baths every day and blow dried her after each one so that she would not get cold. I made sure the water was warm and she actually really liked sitting in it. I cleaned the wound with peroxide multiple times a day and used polysporn on it.

It took a couple weeks of this and then three months before she was better and able to move again, she nearly died a couple times.