Hello,
Our 3yr old hen was acting strange yesterday evening. She was not eating and was just sitting in the coop. We took her out to inspect her and read that she may be eggbound so we tried soaking her in epsom salt and saline solution. We left her there for a few mins and noticed a maggot in the water so we inspected her some more and that's when we saw a black wound below her anus. Five more maggots came out, we took her out of the bath water and let her walk around a bit and soaked her in fresh water with the saline solution for 20 mins but no more maggots were found. She is now resting. Her eyelids also seem to be cloudy when she sleeps and is also twitching a bit. Can someone please advise as to what i should do next? I am planning to isolate her from our other two hens tonight. I should also mention that we are hand feeding her water from a syringe every hour. I attached a photo of her.
Our 3yr old hen was acting strange yesterday evening. She was not eating and was just sitting in the coop. We took her out to inspect her and read that she may be eggbound so we tried soaking her in epsom salt and saline solution. We left her there for a few mins and noticed a maggot in the water so we inspected her some more and that's when we saw a black wound below her anus. Five more maggots came out, we took her out of the bath water and let her walk around a bit and soaked her in fresh water with the saline solution for 20 mins but no more maggots were found. She is now resting. Her eyelids also seem to be cloudy when she sleeps and is also twitching a bit. Can someone please advise as to what i should do next? I am planning to isolate her from our other two hens tonight. I should also mention that we are hand feeding her water from a syringe every hour. I attached a photo of her.
thank you for all the advice and suggestions.
