My Blue Laced Red Wyandotte - was fine 2 days ago. She is just under a year old.
Today - I wanted to check her because I see she is suddenly losing a lot of feathers.
I turned her over after a bath and it looks like she is split up the middle. She has white worms - which I assume are maggots.
My other birds seem fine - but I am going to inspect each carefully today.
I do not know if anything happened - what could make this happen? Can she be saved?
After a bath she went to picking at her butt -
There is no bleeding that I see - when I flipped her over, it looks like the skin covering from her breastbone back to her vent split open, and I can run my fingers in and under that. I see the worms deep inside going into a hole next to her left leg. Are those her organs I am seeing?
She was eating regularly and had a good time running with the other chickens in the yard 2 days ago.
They have a coop - and small run and a large run. Lately three of the five stay outside the coop - but she and another usually go in at night.
Today - I wanted to check her because I see she is suddenly losing a lot of feathers.
I turned her over after a bath and it looks like she is split up the middle. She has white worms - which I assume are maggots.
My other birds seem fine - but I am going to inspect each carefully today.
I do not know if anything happened - what could make this happen? Can she be saved?
After a bath she went to picking at her butt -
There is no bleeding that I see - when I flipped her over, it looks like the skin covering from her breastbone back to her vent split open, and I can run my fingers in and under that. I see the worms deep inside going into a hole next to her left leg. Are those her organs I am seeing?
She was eating regularly and had a good time running with the other chickens in the yard 2 days ago.
They have a coop - and small run and a large run. Lately three of the five stay outside the coop - but she and another usually go in at night.
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