Screw worms

[fangaddict]

My chicken has screw worms. Extremely disgusting! Has anyone else in South Texas had this issue? I used screw worm arisol and so far problem is under control. Well, as of this morning. Been keeping chickens for 5 years and never seen this problem.

 

[Folly's place]

I think screw worm infestations are a reportable problem?!? Call your veterinarian, or the state veterinarian's office, tomorrow and ask. We don't have them up here, thank God, but there's a difference between the typical 'fly strike' maggots and screw worms.
Mary

 

[chickengeorgeto]

By all means report ALL screw worm infestations. This pest is a very very serous pest of all wild life, all pets, and all domestic animals.

The Federal Government will swing into action and release millions of sterilized male screw worm flies and because the female screw worm flies are not promiscuous if one mates with a sterilized male that female fly will not breed with another male so your screw worm problem goes buy buy without any pesticides. Don't delay. Do it in the morning.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

My chicken has screw worms. Extremely disgusting! Has anyone else in South Texas had this issue? I used screw worm arisol and so far problem is under control. Well, as of this morning. Been keeping chickens for 5 years and never seen this problem.

Screw worms are an old problem that resurfaces from time to time. They are common South of the Rio Grand and in the Caribbean so they are always knocking at our door.

The last outbreak was in South Florida. It seems that re-infestations of screw worms are more common now with the Illegal Immigrant problem growing.

 

[fangaddict]

I'm reserved to report, as my chickens are technically not legal in my subdivision. I just have great neighbors. I believe them to be screw worms because it had the 2 inch round patch with maggots that were thinner and had a Grey tip. I did bring my first bird to the vet. I thought she was egg bound and that's where the maggots came from. But then the next one got it. The vet I brought her to was not an avian vet.

 

[Folly's place]

Does your veterinarian know what screw worms look like? Call and ask! Look them up yourself too! If that's what they are, they do need to be reported, ASAP.
Mary

 

[aart]

Don't screw around when screw worms are present.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

I'm reserved to report, as my chickens are technically not legal in my subdivision. I just have great neighbors. I believe them to be screw worms because it had the 2 inch round patch with maggots that were thinner and had a Grey tip. I did bring my first bird to the vet. I thought she was egg bound and that's where the maggots came from. But then the next one got it. The vet I brought her to was not an avian vet.

It is best to report screw warms and report them now than to wait and be labeled a problem because then you may well be looked at as some kind of nere-do-well-survivalist or else a fly under the wire Jed Clampet figure.

Avian vet or not any vet worthy of his daily dose of horse tranquilizer should know what a screw worm maggot looks like. Screw worms have a body that is threaded like a bolt or screw and as they eat into the living flesh of your dog, cat, chicken, goat, cow, horse or what ever they rotate, eating or screwing themselves deeper and deeper into the body of their host. The out come people is not pretty.

 

[Folly's place]

As awful as normal 'fly strike' is, screw worm infestations are way worse!
Mary