Sad news ... we had a loss to fly strike 💔

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Our drake Butters was fine Saturday evening .. by sunday morning when i carried him to his pool he was covered in tiny hatching maggots. Millions. Millions. I used to be a vet tech snd have been around animals my whole life and NEVER seen anything like it. 😬 Looks like it started at his vent.
I ran him inside and we bathed him in the tub with baking soda and epsom salts. Got off thousands of maggots. Looked clear, but his skin was black. Two hours later ... even more were there. Waves of them.
We decided to do what was right😔 but it was awful.
This is a duck that got picked up EVERY day. Petted. Had his legs and back checked. He was only 2 but he turned out to be a jumbo pekin, and he didnt get around very well. Usually he hung out on a big pile of bedding we would put out for him, near the duck pool so he didn't have to walk far. In general we had to carry him a lot. Plus his brother (he's such a snot) had injured his leg a few months back - we had to separate them, though they still hung out together at the paddock fence line.
It happened so FAST.
We are heartbroken.
I have to say thanks to everyone here who posted advice on gentle euthanasia. It helped. We used ether (starter fluid) to sedate him, then decapitation. He never knew anything except that we were both holding him.
Damn fkystrike. We bought more traps. But his case is unique bc of his other issues.
Miss u, Butters
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Regina Larsen said:
Our drake Butters was fine Saturday evening .. by sunday morning when i carried him to his pool he was covered in tiny hatching maggots. Millions. Millions. I used to be a vet tech snd have been around animals my whole life and NEVER seen anything like it. 😬 Looks like it started at his vent.
I ran him inside and we bathed him in the tub with baking soda and epsom salts. Got off thousands of maggots. Looked clear, but his skin was black. Two hours later ... even more were there. Waves of them.
We decided to do what was right😔 but it was awful.
This is a duck that got picked up EVERY day. Petted. Had his legs and back checked. He was only 2 but he turned out to be a jumbo pekin, and he didnt get around very well. Usually he hung out on a big pile of bedding we would put out for him, near the duck pool so he didn't have to walk far. In general we had to carry him a lot. Plus his brother (he's such a snot) had injured his leg a few months back - we had to separate them, though they still hung out together at the paddock fence line.
It happened so FAST.
We are heartbroken.
I have to say thanks to everyone here who posted advice on gentle euthanasia. It helped. We used ether (starter fluid) to sedate him, then decapitation. He never knew anything except that we were both holding him.
Damn fkystrike. We bought more traps. But his case is unique bc of his other issues.
Miss u, Butters
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Sorry to hear that. He's in a better place.
 
Regina Larsen said:
Our drake Butters was fine Saturday evening .. by sunday morning when i carried him to his pool he was covered in tiny hatching maggots. Millions. Millions. I used to be a vet tech snd have been around animals my whole life and NEVER seen anything like it. 😬 Looks like it started at his vent.
I ran him inside and we bathed him in the tub with baking soda and epsom salts. Got off thousands of maggots. Looked clear, but his skin was black. Two hours later ... even more were there. Waves of them.
We decided to do what was right😔 but it was awful.
This is a duck that got picked up EVERY day. Petted. Had his legs and back checked. He was only 2 but he turned out to be a jumbo pekin, and he didnt get around very well. Usually he hung out on a big pile of bedding we would put out for him, near the duck pool so he didn't have to walk far. In general we had to carry him a lot. Plus his brother (he's such a snot) had injured his leg a few months back - we had to separate them, though they still hung out together at the paddock fence line.
It happened so FAST.
We are heartbroken.
I have to say thanks to everyone here who posted advice on gentle euthanasia. It helped. We used ether (starter fluid) to sedate him, then decapitation. He never knew anything except that we were both holding him.
Damn fkystrike. We bought more traps. But his case is unique bc of his other issues.
Miss u, Butters
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hes in a great lake filled with loads of duck friends and food all for him to enjoy now. I do not envy u ur task, but it sounds like u gave him a great life.
 
Thank you for doing the very difficult work of posting your experience. It is so hard to lose them we feel all the love and guilt mixed up at once, so I understand how hard it is. But your post will help keep others from suffering.

I learned from you several things that will help me be better and give better lives to my little feathered friends.

I am currently nursing a little hen with multiple issues including what looks like a water-belly (I am praying I have misdiagnosed her, but that is a weak prayer at the moment)

I hope I don't get there but your euthenasia technique is better than any I knew.

For now I am helping her with a nasty bite (fly-strike) from some opportunistic fly that bit her swollen bum when she was defenseless and has now erupted into a nasty wound on her tender regions. I feel such guilt over her suffering... I can imagine your pain, I have lived this before, it is terrible.

Please remember all the love... Let go of the last moments.

In your quest to 'prevent' next time, I will give you my technique for poo-management. I keep a bucket next to the hen/duck house, always with water enough/more than to cover the contents and I dump the poo I scrape into the water bucket. It desolves the poo which takes away the ammonia, so in a few days (depends on weather, mostly between 2 and 4 days for me in Canada) it is fine to pour into plants (doesn't burn them) and the poo is not available to the flies for laying eggs. Any poo I find laying around the yard I pick-up and toss onto that bucket or a nearer one. Dissipates the smells too, just don't let it ferment too long in the sun, that makes it better for the plants, but can smell.

Hugs to you in this difficult time
 
Mother-Hen-Michele said:
Thank you for doing the very difficult work of posting your experience. It is so hard to lose them we feel all the love and guilt mixed up at once, so I understand how hard it is. But your post will help keep others from suffering.

I learned from you several things that will help me be better and give better lives to my little feathered friends.

I am currently nursing a little hen with multiple issues including what looks like a water-belly (I am praying I have misdiagnosed her, but that is a weak prayer at the moment)

I hope I don't get there but your euthenasia technique is better than any I knew.

For now I am helping her with a nasty bite (fly-strike) from some opportunistic fly that bit her swollen bum when she was defenseless and has now erupted into a nasty wound on her tender regions. I feel such guilt over her suffering... I can imagine your pain, I have lived this before, it is terrible.

Please remember all the love... Let go of the last moments.

In your quest to 'prevent' next time, I will give you my technique for poo-management. I keep a bucket next to the hen/duck house, always with water enough/more than to cover the contents and I dump the poo I scrape into the water bucket. It desolves the poo which takes away the ammonia, so in a few days (depends on weather, mostly between 2 and 4 days for me in Canada) it is fine to pour into plants (doesn't burn them) and the poo is not available to the flies for laying eggs. Any poo I find laying around the yard I pick-up and toss onto that bucket or a nearer one. Dissipates the smells too, just don't let it ferment too long in the sun, that makes it better for the plants, but can smell.

Hugs to you in this difficult time
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Thank you for your answer and your understanding ... its truly touching.
I am 🙏🏻 💛for your girl too - you have your hands full right now. Do post an update on how shes doing
 
Regina Larsen said:
Our drake Butters was fine Saturday evening .. by sunday morning when i carried him to his pool he was covered in tiny hatching maggots. Millions. Millions. I used to be a vet tech snd have been around animals my whole life and NEVER seen anything like it. 😬 Looks like it started at his vent.
I ran him inside and we bathed him in the tub with baking soda and epsom salts. Got off thousands of maggots. Looked clear, but his skin was black. Two hours later ... even more were there. Waves of them.
We decided to do what was right😔 but it was awful.
This is a duck that got picked up EVERY day. Petted. Had his legs and back checked. He was only 2 but he turned out to be a jumbo pekin, and he didnt get around very well. Usually he hung out on a big pile of bedding we would put out for him, near the duck pool so he didn't have to walk far. In general we had to carry him a lot. Plus his brother (he's such a snot) had injured his leg a few months back - we had to separate them, though they still hung out together at the paddock fence line.
It happened so FAST.
We are heartbroken.
I have to say thanks to everyone here who posted advice on gentle euthanasia. It helped. We used ether (starter fluid) to sedate him, then decapitation. He never knew anything except that we were both holding him.
Damn fkystrike. We bought more traps. But his case is unique bc of his other issues.
Miss u, Butters
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😣
 

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