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post #1 of 10
6/14/09 at 8:32pm
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My silkies and showgirls are panting in the hot Texas sun.  Is this normal or a symptom of a disease?  Droppings are normal, eyes, and nostrils are fine...

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post #2 of 10
6/14/09 at 8:37pm

It is normal with the heat.  Mine pant and open their wings a little bit to help cool themselves off.

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post #3 of 10
6/14/09 at 8:37pm

Oh, they pant in the Texas sun!!! wink

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post #4 of 10
6/14/09 at 8:41pm
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Originally Posted by IHeartCapnHook 

Oh, they pant in the Texas sun!!! wink


They pant in south Georgia shade, too....

Judy
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Happiness is when you can look at your chickens and smile....
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

Flockwatching my little bunch of mutts, a favorite pastime.

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post #5 of 10
6/14/09 at 8:42pm
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All this MG/MS talk lately and I was starting to wig out a little.

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post #6 of 10
6/14/09 at 8:45pm

Last summer i thought mine were dying of heat stroke because they were panting so much.  They were fine but i did add a fan and misters in the coop and run!!  It gets so darn hot here in Sacramento.

Mommy to  my two sons Riley and Wyatt........and my other babies Spencer the cat, Columbus the bunny, Ben the beta fish, Bart the hamster, 3 RIR, 2 Golden Comet, 2 Barred Rock, 3 Easter Eggers and 1 silkie rooster......RIP silkie hen and five babies. :0(
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Mommy to  my two sons Riley and Wyatt........and my other babies Spencer the cat, Columbus the bunny, Ben the beta fish, Bart the hamster, 3 RIR, 2 Golden Comet, 2 Barred Rock, 3 Easter Eggers and 1 silkie rooster......RIP silkie hen and five babies. :0(
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post #7 of 10
6/14/09 at 8:45pm

Oh yes, our 4 girls DO pant in our Texas heat.
Most of the hot afternoon, they just rest, or nap...... just today, put a large pan of water in their run, with a blue ice thing in it, and they LOVED it!

We did this in the afternoon, around  5pm and by 7 the ice thing was done and the pan of water muddy. But they had a good time with it..sipping and drinking the whole 2 hrs.


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post #8 of 10
6/14/09 at 8:57pm

I'm in Austin, Tx.  and have an EE that's been doing the same thing.  I'm glad someone else opened a thread about the panting...I was a bit worried myself after all the talk of MG.

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post #9 of 10
6/14/09 at 9:25pm
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According to the local chicken masters I know, other than MG and CRD, gape worm would be the only other disease symptomatic of panting. But, we supposedly never get gape worm down here.

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I'm in Austin, Tx.  and have an EE that's been doing the same thing.  I'm glad someone else opened a thread about the panting...I was a bit worried myself after all the talk of MG.

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post #10 of 10
6/15/09 at 3:55am

90 here. I put ice in there water
They love it

From Guam and living with my wonderful partner, plus  ,1 Barred rock 3 Australorps, 2 sex links 1 Sebright plus 1 wild red jungle fowl rooster who kindly has offered to look after my hens, plus the other wild chickens who stop for a feed  and a boonie dog, oh and two additions now ... two parakeets
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From Guam and living with my wonderful partner, plus  ,1 Barred rock 3 Australorps, 2 sex links 1 Sebright plus 1 wild red jungle fowl rooster who kindly has offered to look after my hens, plus the other wild chickens who stop for a feed  and a boonie dog, oh and two additions now ... two parakeets
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