**URGENT** What parasite is this? Killed my chicken

[TheyBeChillin]

Very sorry for your loss. Fly strike is a very deadly condition that happens during warm weather where there are a lot of flies. It can happen a couple of ways, either by poop accumulating on the vent, or when there is a wound or peck injury below the vent. It is good to inspect or notice any poopy vents on the chickens, and to try to control flies around the coop and run in warm weather. There are fly traps available, permethrin spray which can last 30 inside the coop and is safe for chickens as soon as it dries, and some people use screen wire cut into strips that acts like a screen door.

Thank you- we have had warm weather recently. Wet, hot and humid.

What’s weird is we haven’t noticed many flies this year. Last year it was like an infestation ( other people in our county commented on the unusual amount of flies
too ) but this year I’ve hardly noticed them

Perhaps it was a scratch from a peck. A wound i would have noticed- or at least, I certainly hope I would have. But a peck I wouldn’t. So that could have also been it. Thank you- I didn’t think of that.