[Pedwardine]

I've never come across this before. We have sheep who suffered from flystrike but the blowflies seem particularly vigorous in their numbers this year and our poor White Wyandotte, Mr Bobbles, fell victim. Saw loads of flies bothering him on his back end and took a look and his back end was full of eggs and teeming with freshly hatched maggots  . He must have felt miserable. We cleaned him up and sprayed his sore skin with Terramycin and gave another cautionary spray around the area with fly and maggot spray. Fingers crossed he'll be okay now. Even his poo had maggots in it. It all happened so damn quick. Good job he's so tame or we may not have caught it (He has a nap on my lap  ). I'm so shocked to see them go for a bird! I'd only just said to a friend this afternoon that chickens don't suffer from flystrike. How wrong was I? I called him afterwards and he said his White Star did have maggots in her vent when he found her dead. Is this common or are we having a really weird year?

[princesspiggy]

rabbits can get it too.

[Pedwardine]

Blimey, another "Why did you create...?" to ask of the Big Guy if I'm allowed in! The list, so far, comprises of mossies, midges, slugs and blowflies.

[in the hills]

   Hope he makes it, poor little chap 


       My sisters have both lost rabbits to flystrike ..... even though they were sprayed with a repellant and checked regularly.    Never heard of it in chickens but guess any animal could get it.

[Pedwardine]

Me too. He's a smasher is my Bobbles. Loves a cuddle. Couldn't replace him ever.
Bloody blowflies, such a horrible way for an animal to go.

[omnipeasant]

This is sad, did he perhaps have some injury that attracted the flies? Hope he's okay now.

[plumseverywhere]

I've heard of it in chickens before too, usually when poo is stuck to the bottom or vent area and the eggs get laid there. Horrible
Have also seen it in a cat - both legs - after a road accident where she wasn't found for 2 days as had crawled into a ditch. Fully recovered now 

[graham-j]

Hi,I lost a quail to it recently it had a fight injury I had treated it with purple spray before the flystrike, but this made no difference to the flies.

Graham.

[in the hills]

Can't stand the thought of it. Poor quail   


How is Bobbles?

[chrismahon]

Bit worrying that Pedwardine as our Wyandotte's run has a lot of flies in it. We've never had a case of fly strike but are always careful to keep their bottom feathers clan and wash them when necessary. Will check him tomorrow. Hope Mr Bobbles (lovely name) recovers.