Re: Neighbors dog got in my chickens

Gordie wrote:
>
> Had a young chicken that had a big wound under one wing from a skunk
> bite.  Flies laid eggs on the wound and the maggots ate all the dead
> tissue keeping the site clean.  She lived and thrived.

And fly strike - which is what that was - is a sure way to kill any
animal.
The maggots do not eat only dead tissue but continue all the way in and
eat 
the animal inside out.
Ask any sheep farmer or rabbit owner particularly
www.google.co.uk/search?q=fly+strike

www.google.co.uk/images?q=fly+strike   - not for the squeamish

I am glad your bird survived but its not a great choice of treatment.

-- 
regards
Jill Bowis

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