Pullet caught in fly strip, adhesive removal?

[Henriettamom919]

My mother in law hung a bunch of fly tape strips around her coop. One of her birds, 14 weeks, got caught. I've gotten the strip off but dawn and warm water is doing nothing. The internet suggests solvents I wouldn't feel comfortable putting on an animal.

HELP!

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Ehh... rub some dirt on it.

Or MAYBE vegetable oil??

 

[rosemarythyme]

I'd try some vegetable oil... it's what I use on my dogs when they get sap on themselves. Or peanut butter.

 

[TomZilla43]

I had this happen once, I just used scissors to trim the parts of feathers that were stuck. But I'm sure it depends on just how "wrapped" up in it the pullet is. And from your post it sounds like you're already past that part of the dilemma anyway. I don't think I did anything special to clean the sticky off the chicken after I had them loose from the strip. Hope all turns out well for the pullet.

 

[WindingRoad]

My mother in law hung a bunch of fly tape strips around her coop. One of her birds, 14 weeks, got caught. I've gotten the strip off but dawn and warm water is doing nothing. The internet suggests solvents I wouldn't feel comfortable putting on an animal.

HELP!

Peanut butter.

 

[Henriettamom919]

The oil wins the day! I used olive because that's what she had but it worked a treat!

Thank you SO much!

 

[trumpeting_angel]

Ohh, I was too late! and I really was going to suggest vegetable oil! It works for many of the adhesives that are stuck on after you peel off a tag, though not all of them.

As for the solvents - what does the internet know, anyhow?

So glad for your MIL's pullet!

 

[Henriettamom919]

You guys saved a gorgeous blue and red Wyandotte days of miserable grooming! Her little beak was even stuck shut! I can't thank everyone enough!

 

[trumpeting_angel]

And what was MIL thinking?

Of course, I've done dumber things.

 

[Henriettamom919]

And what was MIL thinking?

Of course, I've done dumber things.

This is the woman who fed her five year old grandchild a granola bar with peanuts listed as the third ingredient when he has a PEANUT ALLERGY!!!

Honestly, she's 74 and one of the most driven, tenacious women/people I know but lately her age is catching up with her

Needless to say, I pointed out the level of uselessness a fly strip OUTSIDE IN A YARD would be. They're all cut down, now it did concern me a little that taking them down didn't automatically occur to her after the bird was wound up in one