#maggots

My barred rock is suffering from the following: Chickens butt is covered in wet feces, white secretions, blood, and a clump of maggots gathered around her vent, that also happens to be bulging when she strains to poop, blood, feces and maggots fall. First noticed her droppings, with watery...

Hello everyone! This is my first post on here. Where I live, chicken feed is expensive. So I'm thinking of making a maggot farm to give my chickens more protein and stop wasting so much money. - Chicken feed is expensive. For example, 15 dollars for a medium sized mixed bag of food. For me...

Hi, two of my Roosters got into a fight through the cage last week. One was out, the other was in. I rotate them once a week so everyone gets a chance to be free in the yard, and while I was making the switch I noticed my rooster toe was pretty badly cut open, and he was limping a little. I...

I have a room with concrete floors and wooded walls and a door. It is out in a covered indoor shop. I had deep cleaned the shop for preparing my breeding season ( hatching chicks and raising them) I keep the place very clean and tidy. Yesterday I went in the room and I noticed maggots underneath...

I noticed today that one of my hens has a huge wound covered in maggots right under her vent. I washed it out, picked out all of the maggots, put peroxide on it, then put screw worm medication on it, after that I put some peroxide diluted in water on it and got some dead tissue away. lastly I...