This friendly ewe has flystrike. We check our sheep for flystrike on a regular basis, and treat them right away. We use our Handypiece portable handpiece to shear our affected sheep right away, where we find them, without having to run them all the way back to the woolshed.
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I had no idea there even WAS a species of maggot that eats healthy skin. That is straight-up horrifying, those poor sheep. Glad they've got you looking after them.
They use maggots in hospitals now for certain affected areas. Expensive
@@lynnswim1663Those kind of maggots are lab-grown and sterile, they also eat death tissues only unlike the maggot shown in the video.
@@lynnswim1663different kind of maggot that eats only dead tissue. These eat living tissue
These 3 comments and upvotes indicate the majority idiocracy. The 1st is banal, 2nd erroneous and 3rd correct with downvotes. Also, western politics reflects it soon to become 3rd world.
@@lynnswim1663no those maggots they use for that eat dead and infected tissue Not the heathy tissue
The way she trotted happily away at the end. My ❤️ poor baby. That fresh air to that itchy spot has GOT to feel amazing
When the owner Do a half-ass job cleaning the sheep of course it's going to have maggots.
I really like your comment, in fact I couldn't have said it myself! 💯
@@cj-bd3qlwhat’s yo issue?
@@ghostmw2155 my issue is the same as yours
@@cj-bd3ql couldn’t be💀
. *THERE MUST BE A SPECIAL PLACE IN HEAVEN FOR THOSE WHO HELP ANIMALS IN NEED.*
Oui !! En particulier pour les brebis !! Moise et ses,brebis !! Moise etait un berger !!!
Nope, those who help humans are far better and it's far more complex
@@TheWill0fStrengthnah, those that help animals are far more worth that trip.
Why is there a maggot infestation. I don't see any wound?
@@vanessasmook4229 it's a flystrike infection, mostly parasitic fly larvae eating this sheep alive.
Sheep are wonderful animals, they give so much to humans and ask only for a good shepherd in return. There’s a good reason so many ancient cultures saw shepherds as extremely praiseworthy individuals. You should be very proud.
What is it that they give to humans? - By choice i mean, not things we take lol
@@MB-gl7fx You understand "Give and Take" are antonyms that go together no?
To all the selfish ignorant humans who want to know what they give to us I ask. What do we give,? Killing them for wool meat, killing all animals for foodor trophies to prove man, kill endangered species so we can eat more cows, have more land for building houses strip malls don't need. Destroy wildlife habitat and blame them for being there protecting their families. Pigs r some smartest animals n world top 5 ocean life mammals r slaughtered for meat don't need and culture! Dogs cats same. So sheep are here for reason part of ecosystem beyond my knowledge like all animals reptiles species have purpose. What r humans good for
@@MB-gl7fxdeep… really deep…🙄
@@MB-gl7fxso you're telling me that because something isn't given by choice that we shouldn't appreciate it? What sort of gayassniqqa logic is that?
I can’t imagine how much better that sheep feels!
She’s doing advocacy training at the local sheep schools since her recovery
The sheep don’t feel no better
@@casper191985are you a sheep?!? No?!? Then how the hell do you know how or what they feel !!!!!
@@casper191985 ??
@@iknowsomething ? What
I’m glad you were able to help this sheep! I am a nurse, and I have dealt with maggots before and they are so disgusting and smell so awful! I did not know there was a maggot that feast on healthy flesh! We need to hope this does not cross over to people!
It has. Bot flies do this exact thing, except the maggots don’t sit on the surface of the skin. They live inside the skin.
@michellesimien7727 Oh sh1t *New fear unlocked: flesh eating maggots*
Vdd também jà trabalhei em hospital como técnica de enfermagem na sala de curativos e as vezes aparecia pacientes com feridas infectadas e com bichos e era muito triste ver uma pessoa em vida com bichos no corpo.Mais graças a Deus com os curativos e medicações ficavam curados.
@michellesimien7727 you have that backwards
@@bigrob6076 how so? The maggots off the bot flies live inside the skin. Which is what I was said…
Holy sheep! Those maggots were crazy. Imagine the relief 🤗
As disgusted and gag induced i am right now i understand how important this is for the animals we hold. I have the greatest respect for people who do this kind of job so that i have not to do this. I bet the sheep appreciates all of that.
😂😂😂
It really is awesome to see how devoted Ranchers are when it comes to the care, comfort, and overall well being of their livestock.
Also killing them when need to make money
@amazingdude9042 Or to eat? Lol Grow up its the circle of life.
@amazingdude9042 Well, that is how the business of ranching works. Not everyone can wait around for “free” government money; so yes…. Livestock do get slaughtered to feed people, other pets like cats and dogs; as well as provide other products to the market. You wouldn’t want the world to miss out on cute puppies and kittens would you?
@@amazingdude9042cry
later sent to slaughterhouse just for money... so awesome. Go vegan
Oh poor thing, it must have been such a relief to get its back scratched ❤
As gross as the “Disco Rice” are, I’ll bet that the relief must be incredible. To go from the bitey and itchy feeling, then to the buzzing of the clippers must be like the ultimate back scratch!!
😂 I love that! Disco rice is an amazing tern
Not only did she feel relief it must be so good feeling to get rid of the horrid things!
I never knew maggots could attack flesh . Good work helping them
Typical fly larva eats dead tissue. Some insidious ones like this or the infamous Botfly lay their eggs on live tissue.
Yup, and they can go real Deep, keep an Eye for dogs and Cats also!
The blue powder is Negasunt, to prevent new maggots from bothering the sheep again. My dog had wound and it got infested by maggots in a single night. Glad to see the maggots i the video didn't seem to get deeper inside the flesh
How does Negasunt prevent reinfection? Does it just cover the skin or does it contain a repellent?
@@thebighurt2495 I'm no expert in its components, they have something that kills the current maggots and prevents new ones to get in. Must be applied in the wound and nearby skin. You must use gloves and mask to avoid accisental aspiration.
@@alekziethings7923 So it's a disinfectant?
I started scratching my back in relief for that poor sheep. Nice work 👍🏼
From shepherd to shepherd, I understand it all... God bless you.
How do maggots get on him and do all sheep have this?
Also is that blood?
It could be that the flies laid eggs under the fur, which then hatched and the larvae ate through the flesh, causing sores.
Takes me back to the time my chicken had flystrike… lemme tell you having to pull all of them off of her back and bathing them was absolutely disgusting. She was very much disabled after that and I just took care of her like a baby until she passed. She healed up nicely but it affected her poor body too much and she ended up seizing or haemorrhaging. I don’t believe she was in pain after she healed up until that moment.
That sounds terrible. The flies are horrible. Sounds like you did a good job looking after her.
I didn't know other animals could get flystrike.
@@firechasersparkles2023 it can happen to humans too, scary stuff
That happened to one of my chickens once. I kept washing and washing the area but couldn’t find the end of the maggots so I was pretty freaked out and had to put her down. -I didn’t want her to have to got through being eaten alive.
Fly strike is just evil and it happens so fast! Glad you caught it!
Not evil, just nature
@@juliusdv6657 Of course it’s natural but if you’ve ever helped an animal being devoured alive by maggots, you’d get my drift.
@@juliusdv6657 nature is the personification of evil
@@coronis03 Yup! This was one of the jobs on the Ranch back in the day that I did NOT care for!
@@mar83161 It takes a hardy soul and steady stomach! 🤣 I used to help the local vet, it always made us both sad because you never knew what was gonna be under that fur/hair/wool. Tough stuff. I applaud you. ♥️👍
So nice to see you pat and comfort the sheep…
Finally I see what my German Shepherd had. same area all along the spine. Totally shocked after 40 years of dogs and never saw it. Clipped him and used a shop vac to remove the maggots. thousands! Took a long time to heal, he was sick systemically.
That sounds terrible!
Didn't you brush him and see
They start at the size of rice or less. By the time you can see them it is a mess. This is a dog on a hundred acres and never had a leash on him, so after 10 years, it is not expected. @@marikos.154
I have had 2 guineas pigs and one rabbit suffer from the affliction. Unfortunately the rabbit died from it but the guineas thankfully survived. It's good that you caught it when you did because it's horrible to see an animal in that much pain
Sorry about your rabbit.
Oh man don't tell my wife this can happen to her piggies.
@@joevanweedler piggies are in my opinion easier to treat because you can give them a bath which they absolutely enjoy. Just make sure that you dry them off properly after because you don't want them getting cold
@TheMattew777 well that's good to know. Those are her babies
@@TheMattew777 can't you bathe rabbits ?
Whoever helps animals is the best type of human being & they’re heading to heaven
But the “help” gets cancelled out when this sheep is sent to slaughter.
I've cleaned up hundreds of maggoty sheep maybe even in the thousands and I'm not going to heaven because there isn't one.
@@alexwilliams4264 sure there is, and a Hell too. Good luck!
If I felt relief watching this… I can only imagine how she felt 🫶🏼💯👏🏻
St. Francis pray for us. Thank you God for good care takers like this.
God Bless this person who took care of the situation.
THANK YOU THOUSAND TIMES FOR HELPING THIS POOR SHEEP THANK YOU 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️
Love the amount of head pats you gave that sheep, definitely a necessary part of the treatment.
Wow never heard of this before. Bless you for helping that precious sheep ❤
yknow I never thought about the nibbling meaning relief, but it makes a lot of sense! I've seen ewes doing it during and after giving birth and I kinda figured it was sort of a hormonal thing or something, but that being an expression of relief and "this is a productive/satisfying/relieving feeling" makes a lot of sense.
nice pfp
@@strangerinastrangeland3613 :D I like yours too!
It seems like that white stuff you used to squirt on them before would be more soothing than that pink spray.
That's a large area of fly strike. We check our flock daily we can usually spot first signs in those with flystrike by their behaviour. Though saying that we've had a ewe off her legs within 24hrs and when trimming we could see they had burrowed tunnels from her back end it was the worst case we had seen in such a short space of time she was depressed head down losing her mind we trimmed and cleaned her thoroughly thought she would die but she made it threw and fostered in her later years. They are bustards those damn things. Good job
For doing this great and noble deed, I grant you the title of Saint. 🙏
High five🙏
Thank you as always for helping these beautiful babies ❤🐑 ❤🐑❤️🐑❤️
Oh my... That must have been SO itchy and uncomfortable for her... The joy and excitement is so cute ❤
Thank you so being compassionate and kind towards animals . We all should be this way ❤
That's so cool to have a remedy that in 24hrs can help those poor sheep. Ty❤
There are many chemicals that do the job
So very lovely to see you pet the sheep to reassure it ❤
Poor baby, that must have itched something terrible! Bless you ❤
Love it! Thanks for treating those dear animals so well.
Whoa look how lush that green field is 👍🏻
Taranaki's climate is great for growing grass.
@@FarmWithMeNZ I will definitely visit next time I'm in NZ
You did a great job. Those animals are lucky to have a farmer like you ☺️
Yea indeed ❤
I can’t even imagine the relief ol girl must have felt
They must feel so relieved when they are removed. Thank goodness you are there for them.❤
Poor thing! I can't even begin to imagine how awful that felt. Glad to know she's doing better.
I can’t imagine how frustrating that would be ! I lose my mind if I can’t scratch my back for one minute
This old city fella is now itching. Hats off to you.
Thank you for your love and care for these innocents.
The kid in me half wanted to hear, "Away to me Pig."
😅
Thanks for being a caring farmer.
I am loosing my eye after seeing this. Great work from the ones who help these animals.
Excellent video, so gentle and thorough with the sheep. Also very informative, I was previously unaware of maggots that eat live tissue.
@RJ-pu4tz Dont look up "human botfly". Botflies and screw worms (botfly is type of fly that bites and then lays an egg in the bite so the maggot can develop in there and eat live tissue "screw worm" is a term for the maggot) are gross enough. But in the tropics theres a specific botfly that lays its eggs only on humans.
That has got to stink bad
You did well, God bless you for this
Something about watching this that is soooo satisfying, weird but I had to repeat watch a few times. Must be such a relief for the sheep
Who's a cute sheep! And what a nice green field there at the end.
This has got to be the best back scratch in the history of back scratches!😊😊😊
Thank you so much for for the love you give your animals😇🥰🐑🐑❤💜🥰🐾🐾
She’s so happy to be treated and back in the fields
This is oddly satisfying 😮
Thank you very much for helping poor angel!!!
That is the stuff of nightmares. I’m glad you were able to help.
Thank u for helping her! ❤️
People who take care of these kind of problems are so special. I would never want any animals to suffer so I would take them to the vet I don’t have the nerve or stomach to do it so these people are heaven sent in my eyes
Lot of times there's not a specialty /livestock vet around and if you find one they're *incredibly* expensive... if you have a whole herd of sheep or whatever animal that would multiply out of control very fast. Keeping animals turns you into a specialized vet tech out of sheer necessity lol. Never would have imagined myself doing some of the things I have for injured/sick chickens and goats but it's rewarding when things go right and you can help them and I feel more confident when things inevitably go south again (chickens especially love to just randomly malfunction or die lmao but I love em)
Get 'em. Feels soo good to see her relief. All I want to see is that nibbling.
Bless you for taking care of those Sheep
i know they felt so much better ❤❤
poor sheep! I am glad she's feeling better that must have been so painful to deal with!
It must drive the poor sheep mad thank you for treating them you are a god send.
This can be life threatening. I knew an elderly dog who was neglected outside for just a few days and had maggots burrowing inside him. He was too old to handle the surgery and had to be put down. Please check on your animals and never leave them outside for prolonged periods without checking their fur.
It's amazing how many stories we've heard about pets being affected by flystrike. Pet owners and farmers alike need to be vigilant to ensure their animals are in good health.
Look at the 👅 tongue! She’s in scratchy heaven 😅😂
😅
That must have given instant relief to her 🙏
Flesh crawling but oddly satisfying 😅
I bet the beautiful sheep feels a 100% better with them horrid maggots off her 🤢 can you imagine the itch with them wriggling about under her fleece arrr gringe , thank you for helping this poor sheep 🐑 what a great farmer & keeper you truly are thank you I never knew about this
It took 30 years, but I saw a nightmare come to life. Thanks youtube
There is a thing called Dipping/Sheep dip. It can help prevent external parasites like this from occuring.
Great job, expertly handled, good to see 😊
I didn’t know that could happen always thought was on the back end they got maggots. Good to see it sorted.
They get fly strike anywhere
@@alexwilliams4264 Anywhere that is filthy.
It's flystrike m8. They get it mostly rear end and over the shoulder. It's part of the life of sheep. You should do a stint on an Australian merino sheep property. You soon get used to it.
To have a nonstop itch that you cannot reach to scratch just has to be literally hell on earth
My entire body itches just watching this. Can't imagine what that sheep must have felt
good job man. much respect
You sir are doing a great job, keep it up!!
Much appreciated!
You are a great farmer because You love your animals and take care of them ❤
She looks so happy!!!
Made me itch so bad 😭
I’m scratching as I watch
Looks so itchy!
The fact you did this without gloves makes you at least 5x more brave than me
God bless you for looking after these poor babies. What a horrible disease.
Why tf do flies have to lay eggs everywhere
Very interesting, poor sheep. How did you know that there are maggots - because you cannto see them right?
Beautiful! Looks like you really love them❤
That poor sheep. I have a irrational fear of maggots 😵
You are a hero.❤
The breathing adds a whole new layer of intriguing, combined with maggots etc! Very cool!
Haha thats the thing with having the camera so close on my head, I thought I sound like Darth Vader 😅
@@FarmWithMeNZ Can you use diatomaceous earth with these maggots?
The sheep is enjoying this so much.
You both did great
Wow what a freakin pasture🖤
That must have hurt so bad 😢
So awful.. poor baby. Thank you for helping her!
He was the animal in need. He’s trying to rescue an animal that he’s farming.
So disgusting yet so satisfying I can't stop watching
man that is some nice thick green grass.
Glad someone noticed 😅