So I cleaned her up, and she recovered again but healed a bit slower than her daughter. They had not managed to do much more damage to her after I sprayed them. I checked her 4 hours later and all the maggots were dead and most had also fallen off. So I panicked, grabbed that ivermectim spray and soaked the maggot ridden area. I had an even bigger problem with this doe though as I was picking and flushing and cursing my life I could see that there were hundreds and hundreds of maggots too small for me to pick manually. Pulled her out, and yep fly strike also, her second one. That same day that Mini proved to be 100% maggot free, her mom, the first doe, had food left in her bowl and that doe never left a scrap ever. I did not find anymore maggots on her the next day so whew. So I made my own with Ivermectin and water, went back out and sprayed that doe's fly strike area thoroughly. Then went in, did some hunting on the internet and came across a fly strike spray for sheep. Again, sheared the surrounding area because I recalled how they tried to escape into the wool and hide from last time, picked and flushed until I couldn't find anymore maggots. I pulled her out looked her over and she had a fly strike. I found some leftover feed in the bowl of the above doe's daughter. It was very subtle, came and went, she never went off her feed, never showed any pain postures or behavior, just every now and then she just wasn't quite herself. She was just a little bit off from time to time after this strike. So it took several revolting hours to get her sheared down, picked and flushed free of maggots and she fully recovered. It occurred on a doe who was just under 3 years of age. Not long after all the sludge rabbits, and I had 5 left by then, were nice and dry and no longer producing sludge I had my first fly strike. Eventually after trying countless nutritional changes and supplements with poor or no results I was able to get it fully controlled, by accident, with a high fat feed. Regardless of being prime targets for two and a half years with uncontrolled sludge none of them ever attracted any flies. That came and went as I did my very best to keep them trimmed enough to keep most of it off of them. End result being a dozen rabbits with wet urine soaked bottoms which smelled powerfully of rank abnormal smelling urine. My original herd suffered from genetic urine sludge which I won't get into here. Three strikes on one doe, and one on her daughter. So I've had 4 strikes occur on two German Angora does. I am not including any photos because it really is a horror to see and it is impossible to not recognize on sight. Unfortunately I have become a little too familiar with fly strike this past year. So I apologize in advance because this will be a little bit long winded due to me being compulsively long winded.
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