Maggot Infestation! How can I help!?

[bloom_ss]

I think first you should try picking off any maggots you can see. Hopefully someone else will be able to tell you what to do if she is prolapsed since I've never dealt with that before.

 

[Soaring Chicks]

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They make stuff called maggot off. Vets have it so you may want to try there.
Rubbing alcohol50/50 with water in a bowl and tweezers or something of the sort. Also rubbing alcohol in something to throw away
Spray the 50/50 mixture on the maggots. To get them to loosen up. Take tweezers and pick the maggots off one at a time.
Put into pure alcohol to kill them.
After they are removed flush with batadine water mixture.
Keep her where flys can not get to her. Give her a day or so to recover give vit water and higher proiten feed.
Then when not so raw if prolapse fix as link tells you too.
Maggots will have eaten all infected tissues and wound should be clean and healthy flesh.
Yes it is nasty and you will gag but you will get over that and do what needs done.
Best of luck for both of you.

 

[Chickiedude]

We dont have any pure stuff, or a vet, would anything more common work for them? How do I get the ones that are more IN off?

 

[sham30]

My friends daughter had an issue with maggotts on a duck and there vet gave them Capstar I think for them, a few doses and they were all gone. Not sure if you have a vet in your area that will see chickens but it is worth a shot. Hope things work out

 

[Chickiedude]

Wow!

UPDATE:

I took ruby into our bathroom (its outside, don't worry, and its just the loo and an old sink so we won't use it for ourselves), which mainly has things like horse worming treatment, dog shampoo, etc.

I filled up the sink with water, not for ruby, and held her upside down, continuing to pull off each and every (hopefully) maggot. I did all around and on her bum, but had to dig a bit deeper to find a small patch of them. I picked them all off, and placed them in the water which ad some alcohol in it thanks to some I found in the bathroom.

SO after I picked hopefully all of the maggots off (I'll recheck after school on tomorrow/monday) I saw her bum was quite nice, clean and pink and the prolapse was quite pinkish red, but no bleeding luckily. So after it was complete cleaned, nice and maggot free by the looks of it (I looked into her bum as far as I could before my tweezers saw that the flesh was normal and didn't look at all infected and Ruby was quite fine with this inspection), We found some of mums oils that she'd used on previous birds we'd saved, and it had cleaned and helped their wounds so we coated it on her bum and surrounding skin. And I gently coaxed the prolapse inside, and she perked up a bit and her bottom skin kept it in and she looked much more lively and walked a bit.

So I put some hay into a box and put her in and placed her next to me inside, with water and food, and we'll keep a close eye on her.
Anything else I should do?

 

[Chickiedude]

Okay so I just re checked on her in her little box. She's a little cold, but still active and she's nice and warm under where she's nested in her box.
There's a bit of blood, but its not 'running', and her bottom feathers are a bit wet. Her prolapse is no longer poking out, and I hope she'll be alright. Is there anything else I can do?

 

[jamesnoldsr]

Good going with getting the maggots off. I have worked at various animal shelters over the years and have thought often that of all the different wounds and such an animal can get, being infested with maggots and being eaten alive was among the worst. Warm, clean with food and water is your best bet right now so that your Ruby can start to heal. It's obvious that you care for her very much- she's got that going for her!

 

[Soaring Chicks]

Good job! She may spot some blood here and there. A small amount is ok you do not want alot of blood.
You do want to keep her warm and the skin that the maggots where on you want to make sure that is does not dry out. You want it to be just like the rest of her skin. Not to moist either. Keeping her bottom clean of poo will help keep infection away. The poo in the prolapse is most likely what started the maggot infestation.
Once a day or twice a day should be fine.
I would feed her something that will help boost her up.
Maybe feed her boiled eggs or again something with higher protein.
To help her body recover faster. Sorry I did not get back to you before,but you are a very smart girl and took the info we gave you and found a way to make it work for your self.
You should be very proud and no matter if she makes if or not you have done all you could.
More then most people would have.

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I'm proud of you.

 

[heatherkh]

Great job!! Hope she pulls through, sounds like you are doing everything you can. One thing I've learned is that keeping chickens will push you outside of your comfort zone every now and again.

 

[glowgirl]

You are amazing!

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