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[blackgold]

Help, need some advice please. My friend over the road rang this evening saying she had seen one of her hens being attacked by the others. The poor bird was held down on her side while the others pecked at her. She is one of 2 young hens POL that they bought a month or so ago. They had been separated from the others in a run before being introduced a few weeks ago. This girl didn’t seem to be accepted and has always been a loner. When my friends husband went to rescue her tonight, he found she had wounds with maggots crawling about on around her vent area. , My friend called me and I went round. They had bathed her and the live maggots were floating around in the bowl. To cut a long story short, I have her here on my kitchen table in the sky kennel. Her legs seem stiff and she is very very thin. She is cold and still damp from her bath. I have put my special treat mix in and some citricidal laced water and lots of wood shavings to soak up the dampness. Her poos are neat wee no solids. She ate a little bit of the goodies, strangely enough she picked out and gulped down a whole grape. I have sprayed a little bit of dog flea spray on the top of her tail area and put antiseptic cream on her wounds. Non are too bed and I don’t think the maggots had started to eat flesh. Think she is in shock as she is sleeping now. I hope I haven’t killed her with putting flea stuff on her couldn’t think of anything else and it is very late.

[Redwing]

it sounds like fly strike, the other hens will have been encouraged to peck by the damage caused by the maggots

 

Have a look to make sure that all the maggots have gone, and remove any more that come from the vent

 

I think there are a couple of threads on fly strike on here that may help if you try a search

 

I'd dry her off with a hairdryer or put her under a heat lamp and then leave her inside in the warm to recover

[Plum]

I think I read that if you spray with Johnson's spray then it will kill the ones inside

[Egluntyne]

I agree, it sounds like Fly Strike.

 

Some advice **here**

[Chucky Mama]

Poor little soul sounds like she has been through it There is a very good spray called F10 which is safe to use and is an germicidal and insecticidal. She may also benefit from some probiotics which may help with the squits such as Avipro or similar. I would keep a close eye on her as she may have an underlying illness which could have contributed to her being turned away and picked on by the others. She is too poorly to worm immediately but have the flock been wormed with Flubenvet recently?