Recent content by ma larkin

Just cleaned it all up again. There were literally 3 maggots on there this morming, and so I hope we have got rid of all of them. The wound looks quite clean. It is not a wound as such, but a nasty sore. It does have a white puss coming out, but the smell is not offensive, and you have to get...

I havent thought about fly strike. Tbh I always associate it with sheep. Just done a quick google and maggots can appear with in 8 hours. Scary. We have removed all the the maggots, and will keep the area clean and keep up with purple spray etc. I think it was a small abscess which has burst...

We just went to feed our live out horses, and when checking them over, noticed (very quickly) our elderly section d had a smallish circular patch on his back crawling with maggots. These definately werent there this morning. I fed etc at around 7am this morning. We bought him in and hosed them...