What sick chicken? I had a sick chicken?
Orrrr do you mean my broody who came off the nest and was all huddled up and half dead looking? I put her back in the cochin coop and she has bounced back and seems fine now. She did have some weird gross thing going on on her rear end but I haven't had a chance to deal with it yet. She is acting normal now though...
HOWEVER.....her bff the other broody mottled cochin she was sitting with did something similar, came off the nest and was standin there looking confused. I took her out noticed a lot of poop on her butt....grabbed some scissors to cut it off and uncovered a big wound filled with squirming MAGGOTS.
Um, gross.
So I flushed it out with saline solution and used tweezers to pick out the remaining maggots. Rechecked later that day and found a few more maggots. Haven't seen any since. She is back to sitting on her eggs and acting normally.
Picking maggots out of a wound is very interesting. Very gross at first but after a minute it is just fascinating. Kin of like when I had to cut a chickens foot open to deal with bumblefoot staph abscess thingy. Gross, yet fascinating.
