heat exhaustion

So about two weeks ago my chicken’s comb started flopping over and I assumed heat stress (it’s very hot here) and gave her both antibiotics and electrolytes but she kept getting slower, following me everywhere I went, wouldn’t eat unless I hand fed her, and eventually two days ago collapsed. I...

On August 13th, around 18:30 PDT, the goose got heat stroke. Tried to cool her down (we put some ice cubes but not too many). The goose drooped the wings and breathed heavily (panting?). Later, it took 2~3 hours for the goose to look slightly better (floating in the water with head up). Even...

We have a six week old flock that we've been brooding in our basement. It's a fairly cool basement that get's a bit of air conditioning in the finished parts. Brooding has been fine and they've done just fine with the heat lamp. It's taken me a while to get our coop/run built. But I think the...

Well, I have an awful question. I’m out of town and my duck/goose watcher forgot to let my birds out of their coops this morning; another person went to put them back in their coops for bed this evening and saw that they were still in there ☹️ I live in Central Texas and it’s ABSURDLY HOT! My...

My 5 month old hen, Margo, suddenly became very ill. She was her normal, energetic, happy self just a few hours ago but I found her laying in the ferns on top of her her own diarrhea. She had her head down with her eyes closed and woke up but didn’t fight me picking her up which was very...

I’ve had so many deaths in my flock recently due to illness and it’s so frustrating. I have previous posts on my other chickens and how they died but just now I had another hen die but under different circumstances. My Brahma was a little under a year old and just died out of the blue. Before...

Hi there everyone, During a rush to get to class I had forgotten to take out the plug in my watering apparatus for my hens. Long story short they were without water for a day and a half. I feel like and idiot and still can’t believe I made this mistake. Fortunately, all but one of the flock...

Found a turkey in the road on a hot day, so it got to go for a car ride in the AC. I apologize if it belonged to you, it was just so hot outside and it seemed lost and overheated.

I have a 9 week old chick that is panting a lot. she is in my basement that is about 60-65 degrees so I would not think she is too hot, but I did have them outside yesterday for a few hours ( it’s between 85-99 degrees during the day) did she get heat exhaustion yesterday? Any ideas? Thank you

We have a pop-up tent for some out door time during the day. The 6 chicks (4 ish weeks old) are still in my brooder in my porch. We put the 6 out there around 11:30. My toddler has been sick so I didn't think anything of it. I went out at 5:30 and two chicks were dead. I'm assuming heat stroke...

My pet chicken recently started behaving weird she is not eating anything abd just drink water n keep standing n sleeping like that and not doing anything else.. plus she also eat some plain curd . I think she's suffering from heat stroke bcuz I googled about it n the symptoms are like this...

I have an 18 week old cockerel who was acting weird. I walked outside and it almost seemed like I startled him he jumped up and ran forward then seemed a little disoriented and started walking backwards a few steps. He then shook all the dirt from his feathers (he was in the dust bath) and...

I have a hen who hasn’t laid an egg in the past three days but has been hanging out in the box all day and night. It has been in the 90s here so at first I thought the heat was keeping her from laying. Now I’m concerned that she isn’t drinking and is dehydrated. She’s acting a little lethargic...

We had a pretty big heat wave where I live, temperatures well over 110, and my chicken yard was unprepared. My chickens had access to water and shade but just about nothing else to beat the heat (they have a mister, a pool, and a fan now lol). Anyway, one of my chickens was found lying on the...

I have a flock of 3 Buff Orpingtons. I was out of town for 2 days and the weather was 82 degrees one day and 84 degrees the next. They have shade and water but that was there first heat experience. They are 8 months old. For the 3 months that I’ve had them, Bone Saw ( my chicken’s name) has...

Hi all, I currently have 5 week old SLW pullets and a few 4 week old Easter Eggers I got from TSC. 4 days ago now, I had two rapidly die around the same time as each other but all others (12 were left) were fine. No bloody stool, but did notice they were all maybe a little more lethargic...

We are at around 90 degrees already outside and will slowly reach upwards to 110 possibly in mid summer. How can I keep my chicken cool without having to keep them inside the house? At what temperature will be absolutely necessary to keep them inside? Here is what I am doing now (and even with...

Last week we lost our largest hen. We found her dead in the chicken yard. I assumed it was heat exhaustion because that was the one day I neglected to check on them in the morning. During the extreme heat we've been having here in California, I check on them a couple times a day. I also saturate...

Hi all, We are raising our first chicks, born 7/22. As we live in Texas, I have thus far been able to just move the brooder outside during the day for them and bring them inside at night with a homemade heat plate/cave type set up. Now, they are getting older and needing less heat just as...