Gordie wrote:
>
> READ every word
Think of all the words you did not use in that post, and then, think on
how
the words you did use are interpreted.
I did, because I get to deal with so many people reading back things just
like yours, acting on them in naivety, and then looking for help to solve
the resulting problem, I try and help them deal with the consequences. It
can be very tragic. So, yes, I am probably more sensitive to
mis-information, and misleading information, than most.
Just because you know exactly what happened does not make the rest of us
telepathic. It would be a useful trait, and maybe humankind will sit still
long enough to tune into its potential. Meanwhile we are stuck with what
you
wrote. Your post gave credence to the idea that fly strike is a positive
husbandry method for the situation brought to the group by the OP, its
not.
I am glad your bird recovered, as I said. I would not want anyone to read
this thread and think its a good solution to the problems presented by the
OP or anything similar.
>
> You didn't read the article on Fly Strike or you didn't understand it
> or you forgot it pretty quick.
> - This is chickens NOT rabbits or sheep.
Yes, and if you look at the archive of this group and elsewhere, you will
see that poultry can get the same.
Ducks, geese, and chickens are all quite capable of getting fly strike.
I have heard of enough cases, fortunately not too common, but very
unpleasant nonetheless, to not want to promote or sup****t the idea in a
public archived situation.
> - This was a wound and not runny **** leaking from the ass and coating
> the rear end.
Fly strike happens in wounds very easily.
Fly strike can happen in a downer animal which is not able to swish its
tail
or flutter its feathers for a while.
It happens particularly at any moist membrane like for a bird - the
cloaca,
or even eyes. Large animals have a greater number and larger targets.
Flies can start to feed and then lay eggs within an hour of an animal
presenting an appropriate target.
In other species it does not even have to be anything as obvious, male
sheep
can have seriously interesting wrinkles at their heads and around their
horns, these can be sufficiently suitable conditions for maggots which can
then get through into the brain, causing a fatal abcess. The same thing
can
happen in stags in velvet.
The articles I posted were simply illustrations of some of the
consequences.
Fly strike is not limited to the situations you seem to be familiar with.
There are very very very few, of the hundreds, probably thousands, of
species of fly that are found around the globe that are fairly reliable at
only devouring necrotic tissue. The problem is that the conditions that
encourage them also encourage plenty of other less discriminate species
and
strikes can be multispecies.
> Maggots didn't travel up the digestive tract in my chicken.
As you say, but they could have just carried on into the flesh of the bird
and into the internal organs, and that was the warning I was giving.
From under the wing its a moist environment and its a short distance to
vital organs.
One situation that, thankfully, turned out well, does not mean that the
approach is a good one universally.
>
> Why are you so *****y anyway?
I only gave a warning, about the other, and more usual, consequences to
the
situation you described.
Maybe you have never seen fly strike? Maybe you have not heard about its
horrors from stockmen.
>
> My chicken don't use Google.
Plenty of chicken owners do, and there are a vast number of novices around
these days.
--
regards
Jill Bowis
Domestic Poultry and Waterfowl Solutions
Herbaceous; Herb and Alpine Nursery
Seasonal Farm Food
http://www.kintaline.co.uk
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