Official Squatch Watchers

[drumstick diva]

Hydrogen Peroxide will flush them out, but, they will keep on coming . They can migrate through the body and reach the brain. They are truly hideous-

 

[21hens-incharge]

Most people's bad weekends: "I didn't get to see the movie I wanted. It was super dissapointing."
My bad weekend: "I had to pick thousands of maggots out of the bloody rear of my beloved pet, while babysitting three boys."

Luckily the boys were asleep. I have permanently traumatized my sister, though. Turns out it wasn't a reproductive disorder. I'm lucky we've been checkin every day; otherwise this could hve been much worse. Not that it isn't terrible already. Send me your prayers; I'm riht now waitin for the sink to fill up so I can(hopefully) wash some of the remainin magots out of hidin. Excuse my typin, my g's stickin and I'm in a hurry. My mom is oing to get betadine on her way back.

Fly strike Ruby?

Which pet dear?

The gag level must be extreme.

 

[Rubysword]

Nicole, the one we thouht had a laying disorder. I'm bathing her right now with epsom salts. Hoping I can drown/kill(cuz of the salt???) some of them.

 

[Chickassan]

Saw the coon again while I was locking up, it got way too close and kept staying close. It has got to go, like permently go. I chased it, threw stuff at it ,made noise and it would run off then come back. I don't like that one tiny bit. It was pretty much at the back door, chickens wanted to alert at it and walk towards the thing so I couldn't go get my problem solver. I don't like raccoons.

 

[staceyj]

Unfortunately, I had to cull the last baby.

I ended up pulling its top half out of the shell and it still didn't kick free after a couple hours. I carefully dumped it from the bottom half of the shell and I found it had several loops of intestine (at least 6 inches) still outside its body.

Oh that’s sad. I’m sorry.
Thank God for you though, that it didn’t have to suffer.

 

[Rubysword]

Did somebody have an article on ether euthanasia? Not giving up, just need to be prepared for all outcomes.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Unfortunately, I had to cull the last baby.

I ended up pulling its top half out of the shell and it still didn't kick free after a couple hours. I carefully dumped it from the bottom half of the shell and I found it had several loops of intestine (at least 6 inches) still outside its body.

Oh man, i hate it when they don't get their taters together! I had a lavendar guinea hatch and it died the next day, it was very tiny. Sorry you lost one!

 

[staceyj]

Ruby, do you want to post a picture?

I’ve worked on maggot infestations in lots of dogs and cat but never a chicken.
I wish I was there to help you. I’d round up all the tweezers in the house.

I just read a long thread here from a while back.

Some highlights were:
One person used dog flea shampoo ( permethrin) in the soaks. Said it killed them.

Someone else used Sevin garden dust -patted it on waited a while, washed off the dead maggots.

Several people said sea salt instead of Epsom

A few people talked about a horse product called AluSpray Areosol
Said it looked like spray on aluminum foil but it was awesome for healing after you get the maggots out.

 

[staceyj]

Saw the coon again while I was locking up, it got way too close and kept staying close. It has got to go, like permently go. I chased it, threw stuff at it ,made noise and it would run off then come back. I don't like that one tiny bit. It was pretty much at the back door, chickens wanted to alert at it and walk towards the thing so I couldn't go get my problem solver. I don't like raccoons.

You need to get rid of him.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Did somebody have an article on ether euthanasia? Not giving up, just need to be prepared for all outcomes.

It was PBM and maybe Smuv that have the article.

I really hope it doesn't come to that.

I will go looking for it again.