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

Its so damn FAST. 💔Im sorry ur going through it. Do you think you can save her?
So sad. The heat here in Arizona is unbearable this year. I have no fly issues, thank goodness, I think it’s to hot for them to survive. My husband added a mister in the coop nd also put a swamp cooler at one end to give them a little relief. I lose one of my gold laced Wyandottes. So far only casualty to this heat. Good luck with everything.
 
So sad. The heat here in Arizona is unbearable this year. I have no fly issues, thank goodness, I think it’s to hot for them to survive. My husband added a mister in the coop nd also put a swamp cooler at one end to give them a little relief. I lose one of my gold laced Wyandottes. So far only casualty to this heat. Good luck with everything.
Same, good luck and stay well
 
So sad. The heat here in Arizona is unbearable this year. I have no fly issues, thank goodness, I think it’s to hot for them to survive. My husband added a mister in the coop nd also put a swamp cooler at one end to give them a little relief. I lose one of my gold laced Wyandottes. So far only casualty to this heat. Good luck with everything.
You can fill up some milk or 2-liter bottles with water, freeze them, then place around the run and in the coop in the heat of day. I don't need to do it for the grown birds here in Missouri, but my chicks (4-8 weeks, separated from the flock) will huddle near the ice bottles to cool off. I truly believe it's been a lifesaver.
 
You can fill up some milk or 2-liter bottles with water, freeze them, then place around the run and in the coop in the heat of day. I don't need to do it for the grown birds here in Missouri, but my chicks (4-8 weeks, separated from the flock) will huddle near the ice bottles to cool off. I truly believe it's been a lifesaver.
Great advice
 
Its so damn FAST. 💔Im sorry ur going through it. Do you think you can save her?
So thankfully I was able to save her. I bought Prozap screw worm spray and Blue Kote from Tractor Supply. I used the hose to clean out the maggots and dunked her in the duck pool to remove the maggots and dead skin. After that I dried her off with a towel before applying the screw worm spray and letting it dry for 5 minutes. Then covered her skin and damaged feathers with Blue Kote and it looked like I spray painted her lol. I read some people didn't advise using Blue Kote on Waterfowl but I was desperate and couldn't watch her suffer. After about a week the damaged skin healed scabbed over and the scab fell off. Since then she's just naturally shed the feathers that were damaged and had Blue Kote on them and has had no issues/side effects from either treatment. Now she's back to normal and has the faintest traces of blue on her feathers mainly the tips as they've grown out.
 
After about a week the damaged skin healed scabbed over and the scab fell off. ...had Blue Kote on them and has had no issues/side effects from either treatment. Now she's back to normal and has the faintest traces of blue on her feathers mainly the tips as they've
Funny I was in the feed store today and picked up the blue kite to read the label. I thought it looked interesting (as in 'good to know this is here in case it becomes useful'). I wasn't sure I could use it, very glad to have your experiences to guide me.

Most recent fly-strike I treated I washed her wound every day, and it took about (same as you) a week for the wound to heal and the scab to fall. Your technique is good to know in case it happens at a time I just don't have "every day" time to treat this.

(Re the painted feathers)

Years ago we had a duck with a bumblefoot and my spouse put the aluminum healing/wound spray on her. I said no to that, he did it as soon as I left the room. :rolleyes:

He went quickly to get his "graffiti" done before I got back so it went too far, and the airborne spray got on her, we had a white and silver Muscovy for a while! She didn't know, and didn't mind. Her sister never pecked at it.
 

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