Re: Neighbors dog got in my chickens

On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:05:43 +0100,  Jill wrote:

> 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.

I didn't choose the treatment.  Just re****ting what happened.
Doctors are using maggots now to removed dead tissue.  It is said that 
they only eat the dead tissue and not living tissue.
It disgusts me to even think of it but the chicken lived and thrived and 
after a year you couldn't tell which bird it was.