Yellow funk on kittens fur

[tjrusert]

Hi. I have a colony of feral (although actually very friendly) cats that live outside my house. We live in the middle of nowhere so I'm glad to have them around. We feed them and make sure they have a warm place to sleep in the winter. One of our momma cats had kittens back in August. I left them alone for a couple of weeks but then I just had to hold them. When I picked them up I was horrified to see that they had maggots living in their little behinds. I searched online and found a safe way to help them and they got completely over it. Today I found one to have clumps of yellow gunk imbedded in her fur around her head. Her eyes are ok. I'm concerned as to whether or not it could be fly eggs. This gunk is very hard to get off of her. It really sticks to the fur. I can't see any individual structures to the stuff. Does anyone know what it is?  I hope it doesn't have anything to do with flies. I clean her as much as I could

[Jade59]

tjrusert...hi again.  Hmm...the only thing that comes to mind is an abscess that's draining.  Do you see an injury of any kind?  I wonder if the kitten was bitten?...or something along those lines.    

p.s.  Oh man, the maggots.  I would of been horrified, too.  I'm glad you were able to treat the issue and get rid of them.