Just on the off chance you come back for some answers, if your chicken is bad you don't want to immerse her in water.here's another use for ACV or better yet, plain white vinegar. Get a spray bottle, large one if you have it, say about a qt. and a half, put in 1 cup either ACV or the white vinegar and fill the rest of the way with good warm water. Place your poor bird in the tub, sink or shower and start misting her with the water. The surface maggots will fall off of her fairly easily. This may sound cruel because of the sting from the vinegar but think how she feels being eaten alive. No contest right? Once you have all of the nasties from the surface, rinse her with plain warm water where she is open and raw. You will need good light and a steady hand to start getting the ones who have gone into the flesh. If you have a small blacklight, you could use that to help you, maggots glow a yellowish color under the light making them easier to spot. Get what you can and then dry the poor girl up and spray her with Blu-Kote. Blu-Kote will not only go on top of the skin but will go into the skin as well and will help pull more of them out. Gentian-violet doesn't sit well in their stomachs. Vitamins with electrolites, antibiotic warmth and another round tomorrow and she might make it.
Read the links but the info I am writting has also been used successfully by horse owners that I personally know, a human friend who ended up with maggots in his leg cast over the weekend so couldn't get it changed, was told by the doctor on call to spray inside the cast with vinegar.[Truth!] All dead by Monday morning. Ewww! The glowing under the blacklight, my Halloween days and finally the Blu-Kote....I am not grossed out by much but maggots will do it for me. I found a bunch of them in my yard on 'something', shudder, all I had to hand was a bottle of Blu-Kote. I sprayed them quite nicely and when I went back later most if not all were dead.
