I had my first taste of fly strike today (not literally you understand). I brought the girls in for fluke drenching and discovered it in one of the lambs. The girls didn't get drenched in the end as we were concentrating on the poor lamb.
I have never seen so many horrible maggots. We used the dog clippers to get most of the fleece off of her back half, took out as many maggots as we could and then sprayed her with crovect. She was looking pretty sorry for herself when we finished so gave her some pen and strep too. It's very, very wet here so I have kept her comfortable in the stable as I didn't want the crovect to wash off.
Having never seen fly strike before, I hope we have treated her correctly.
Well Tilly seems ok'ish this morning. We gave her another dose of pen and strep and she was keen to get back to her friends so we let her out. I was going to take a pic of her new hair cut but the camera was out of battery
The others had to be drenched (the job we were supposed to be doing yesterday that started all this off)so they got a thorough check up too and were all ok.
Tilly gets over this ok.
Tomorrow the other girls will need to come back in so that they get their drench and they will get a thorough going over at the same time
. We don't have another day like today