Coronet band cut - feathers hiding maggots !!!!!

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Grooming the boy quickly this morning, i saw some dried blood on his near fore front feathers - picked the hair up to find a cut (three inches long) - and it was MOVING :eek:

Of course, i ran to my friend for help, and found the courage to brush the b****** out, which the boy let me do, then rinse the cut - which doesn't look too deep. Scrubbed out with hibiscrub, dried and tea tree oil on.... vet if no better tomorrow. At least the maggots will have cleaned out the cut. And farrier to have a look tomorrow too.

I'm a stickler for brushing out feathers and checking them, but what manages to get hidden beneath the hairy depths is amazing. :rolleyes:

Some were quite big maggots too - but from posts on here, at least they weren't in his privates :eek: sm x
 
aww. poor thing.
Hope he feels better soon.

I hate those little devils, but they do some good buy eating away the nasty flesh, you just need to stop them before they start eating the good flesh!
 
I feel like a bad mum for not having found the cut earlier *sigh*. I don't think Shy even noticed his visitors tho. God knows what would have happened if it wasn't for that tiny speck of dried blood I saw - so it could've been a lot worse !

We've had fleas on the terrier and maggots on the pony this week - what's next ? I dread to think :D
 
Yup, purple spray this evening. Urgh, keep seeing see the ones i popped out from under the end of the cut...reminded me off that spot popping post.:eek: I know a lot of peeps say get the feathers off, and yes they can hide a multitude of sins, but I'll keep going :D
 
Don't fret too much, maggots will not eat healthy flesh. Only dead stuff. There are so many flies about just now I'm not surprised people are finding maggots in weird and wonderfull places! Just keep an eye out for any more and keep the wound clean.
 
err...

no really they are quite good on the healthy stuff too, thats why blowfly strike is quite nasty.

it does depend on the fly species though
 
hmm, spoke to the vet and am going to put him on anti-bios as the cut is long and you can see the laminae behind the wall. How the hell he's done it in the first place is a mystery - must be a kick. Electric fencing all round.....so it can't be that
 
Dont feel bad.I had same problem the other day,only in the back left corronet.Of course the maggots,(2 of them) had got under the feathers.I felt sick but did get them off and hibiscrubbed and put fly spray around the area. I saw a graze under the feather,after I cut some off. He wouldnt let me do anymore. Those maggots are yukkky ewwwww!!!
 
Haha, a blast from the past post :D Atm, I'm slavishly slapping aqueous cream to those hooves, to stop them drying out, so am checking his underneath feathers every day - just as well, as the memory of what was lurking beneath has made me feel queasy ;)

Some poor poster found maggots in the horse's sheath - now that would have been nasty :eek::eek:
 
Had fly strike on sheep and it nearly made me throw up! :eek: I have dealt with all sorts over the years, but that one was very near my limit. We noticed the ewe was not good on last checks, about midnight, got her in and had to shear the back end. It is no fun shearing a sheep, after midnight, with thousands of maggots coming out from under her skin! I couldn't eat rice for months! :D
 
Ugh, it's the only thing I can't deal with, maggots. Blood, pus, vomit, poo etc don't bother me in slightest but I absolutey cannot do maggots.

I'm afraid the leg would have been chopped off at the knee and binned.
 
In South Africa you get horrible bean ticks that live under horses' tails and need to be carefully prised off after application of copious amounts of vaseline. Sometimes they pop between your fingers.
I've never been great with raisins since owning horses...
 
I really can't stand ticks - all that "unscrewing" them, and checking that their heads are indeed still attached to them and not in the dog...whilst trying not to pop them, which I leave to hubs. Urgh xx
 
Glad to report,Flash's foot is looking good,however he wont let me trim anymore feather off. So I doused it with warm salt water and then with hibiscrub,thankgoodness NO MORE MAGGOTS Yukky give me the creeps.
I dont like ticks either!!!
 
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