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If you notice maggots on your rabbit, bring him to a vet immediately. This is an emergency, and without the vet your rabbit will die from shock or infection.
If you feel comfortable doing first aid on your rabbit, and your rabbit seems okay for now (is calm and responsive; not in shock, or completely depressed and unresponsive, or freaking out and unmanageable), then before you leave for the vet's you can try to remove the maggots and clean the wounds. Here's how:
Remove the maggots: Be very, very careful! Do not burst or crush the maggots, or break their bodies. Maggots and other parasites are filled with toxins that can harm your bunny. Using tweezers, very gently pull the maggots out of the skin or off the fur or wherever they are. Then you can flush them down the drain, or burn them. (Don't just throw them in the trash: they might crawl out again.) If the maggots are deep in the skin, try covering the opening with a warm cloth for a few moments -- this might bring them up to the surface.
If you're having trouble removing the maggots, and you're afraid you might crush them as you try to remove them, then just leave them in and let the vet take care of it!
Clean the wounds: Flush the wounds (use a big oral syringe or something like that), and then cover them with non-stick bandage pads, and then wrap the pads with self-adhesive bandage tape (but do not let the self-adhesive bandage touch the wounds or open skin, because it'll stick). For the flush, use sterile saline solution. Or, you can use watered-down povidone iodine (Betadine is the common brand name, water it down to an iced tea colour), and then with lukewarm water. If you don't have either of these, just use lots of lukewarm water.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 13y agoMaggots can be removed by using special liquids sprayed onto the tail to destroy maggots, prevent blow flies from landing and killing eggs. These can be purchased from most animal clinics or farm suppliers
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∙ 9y agoThere are special fly sprays that one can buy to kill maggots on a sheep. The fly spray is used and then the sheep will need to be washed to make sure all the maggots are gone.
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Two lambs.
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How do you get rid of or kill all the maggots in the roof of a kitchen if there is a gap between the cornish about 2 meters in the air and the maggots are falling from the ceiling onto the floor?
Maggots grow in decaying tissue. They would not be growing on any part of your house. In order to get rid of them, you need to find what has died in the roof and get rid of the body. It is probably a mouse or squirrel. Maggots are the name of the larval form of a fly.
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2 shakes of a lambs tail...
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Throw the rack out and buy and new one!
What is and why do they tail dock sheep?
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Does a ram have a tail?
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What does the expression in two shakes of a lambs tail mean?
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