Hedegehog.

Lorna was looking for a piece of string.She looked into a bag in one of the farm sheds. The bag was smelling of something horrible. She peered inside and saw a small hedgehog, about half grown. There were maggots crawling all over it.Lorna was sure it was dead. Simon picked it up and found it was alive. The poor little thing must have been hit by a car and managed to crawl into the shed to hide. I looked at the wound on it`s shoulder, it was very raw. We always keep some medicenes etc for the animals on the farm so I got a little maggot oil and poured it over the wound, they began to wrggle and squirm. The horrible things seemed to appear from all over the place. I found some tweezers and began picking them off. It seemed never ending some were as small as a grain of sand some were big and fat. as I worked a little bird joined me and began eating them as I threw them down.I have rinsed the wound with warm salty water and sprayed some gentian violet on it.At the moment it is wrapped in a blanket with a stone hot water bottle by it to raise it`s tempreture up.I am going to try and give it a drink with a pippet soon. It hasn`t unrolled yet, I don`t know if it is too sore to try or too frightened. If it is alive tonight I am going to take it to the vet.