[hogies]

I have a pig that had a large abscess on her ear that has burst. I have been cleaning with chemwash and spraying with iodine spray. The wound appeared to be crusting over and then fly's got to it 7 days a go in the space of the clean up at 5am to when I went to re-clean at 5PM there were maggots. I had cleaned them all out used fly spray around wound to discourage flys and kept up with washing an iodine spray.Gave an injection of ivomec to discourage maggots. It has been 7 days since I treated the fly strike but the wound has still not healed it went all crusty and dry but then this morning when I was cleaning the crust wiped off and exposed the wound again it is kind of a brown colour but no real pus. Any suggestions on what I can do to heal this over or how long I should expect it to take to heal?

[Hassle]

Spray with iodine and allow a couple of weeks

[kja]

terramycin spray

[Tiva Diva]

I'd second the terramycin. If there's a flap of skin closing over the abscess it may need to be trimmed back: abscesses need to heal from the base upwards. If you can scrounge some plastic skin spray it may help keep the flies off.

[Daisys Mum]

Plastic skin spray is brilliant, my Jack Russell had an ear wound and kept opening it up shaking her head, spraying everything in blood. One spray with plastic skin and it healed up quickly.

[scarlettoara]

you are v unlucky to get maggots this time of yr.

[Marches Farmer]

Those flies are great opportunists!  I found a dead rat crawling with them - in February.  Plastic skinwound spray is very good - Fearing do one called SBF (Stops Bleeding Fast) - the ones for humans work the same but are more expensive.