My goose has a hole below her vent that is full of maggots help please

[Backwoodssteve]

I have an American blue female there is a hole below her vent thumb size that smells rotting and is full of maggots she is lethargic help please

 

[alinas2010]

Hello, so sorry to hear about your goose. How is she doing? Is she lethargic? What have you done so far?

Please get her inside somewhere warm and offer electrolytes and water. Remove as many maggots as you can. Flush the wound out with saline or something like a wound spray. Sometimes fly strike can be really tough to overcome, but the more info you can offer, the more the educators may be able to help.

@Wyorp Rock @azygous @Eggcessive

 

[Backwoodssteve]

Hello, so sorry to hear about your goose. How is she doing? Is she lethargic? What have you done so far?

Please get her inside somewhere warm and offer electrolytes and water. Remove as many maggots as you can. Flush the wound out with saline or something like a wound spray. Sometimes fly strike can be really tough to overcome, but the more info you can offer, the more the educators may be able to help.

@Wyorp Rock @azygous @Eggcessive

Yes we definitely believe it to be fly strike we have thoroughly irrigated the wound and surrounding necrotic tissue we have flushed with a diluted betadine solution repeatedly removed all feathers and dead tissue from the area and then applied a healing wound ointment that we have for our sheep she is lethargic and was extremely calm during the whole process normally he is very anti-social we have taken all the eggs away and put them in an incubator and moved her into the tack room in the barn with clean hay and no flies a small amount of food and freshwater with a little bit of apple cider vinegar in it

 

[alinas2010]

Yes we definitely believe it to be fly strike we have thoroughly irrigated the wound and surrounding necrotic tissue we have flushed with a diluted betadine solution repeatedly removed all feathers and dead tissue from the area and then applied a healing wound ointment that we have for our sheep she is lethargic and was extremely calm during the whole process normally he is very anti-social we have taken all the eggs away and put them in an incubator and moved her into the tack room in the barn with clean hay and no flies a small amount of food and freshwater with a little bit of apple cider vinegar in it

I’m so sorry she is going through this. The educators tagged may be able to help further, they’ve seen fly strike many many times. Photos may be helpful. Sounds like you’ve done a good job irrigating.

In the meantime, if you have something like pedialyte or Gatorade or even a homemade electrolyte solution, try to get her to take some in. Gently dip her beak bill? into it, or dribble some onto her beak.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Sound like you are doing a good job cleaning out the wound and maggots. You may need to repeat the process for a few days to make sure all the maggots are gone.

Working on hydration as mentioned is a good idea, hopefully she'll perk up.

 

[Backwoodssteve]

We have electrolytes with probiotics that we give the baby chicks in their water Will that do

 

[alinas2010]

We have electrolytes with probiotics that we give the baby chicks in their water Will that do

Absolutely. I hope she gets better.

 

[Backwoodssteve]

We have La 200 Google says it's not a off label drug but could it be helpful

 

[alinas2010]

Tbh with you idk if it would be helpful in this case. Here is a link with more information about it:
https://poultrydvm.com/drugs/oxytetracycline

@Wyorp Rock might be able to tell you if LA 200 would be helpful for her to take for fly strike.

How is she doing today?

 

[Backwoodssteve]

Tbh with you idk if it would be helpful in this case. Here is a link with more information about it:
https://poultrydvm.com/drugs/oxytetracycline

@Wyorp Rock might be able to tell you if LA 200 would be helpful for her to take for fly strike.

How is she doing today?

Deceased she passed in the middle of the night