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Tomorrow there's gonna be a really bad storm and we may lose power, and I just hatched chicks in an incubator today. How can I keep the chicks warm?

Okay we moved to South Carolina and am new to raising chickens in the south. I have 3 hens and rooster and 6 - 3 week old chicks still inside under constant heat. was wondering what everyone thinks of heating the coop once I move the babies outside in 4 to 6 weeks, it will be getting cooler out...

Hi there- One of my ducks, Cinderella, (Pekin, 21+ weeks) was always very clean, constantly grooming herself. In the last month she seems to have stopped almost entirely. She still eats and is laying (1 egg per day) but has lost some weight. I haven't weighed her but it is visible that she has...

Hi there--we have been dealing with a hot summer in Northern California. We just went through three days of 100 degree temps. Now the weather is forecasting a break over the next two days then 100 degrees for four straight days. I have 6 hens and most of them are not the most heat tolerant...

I just got a chicken today. She is a Silver Pencil Rock. When I first picked her up, her crop felt very soft, full, and as if it was full of fluid. The place that we got her at was in California, and the weather was above 100 degrees, same as where we live. (We are going through a heat wave.)...

Hi I'm Carriegator and just signed in for the 1st time! We have had chickens since April of 2016 so we are in our 2nd Summer. My main concerns are keeping my flock healthy during this heatwave

I've read many of the posts on here about when ducklings can go outside regarding cold weather, but what about hot weather? My Welsh Harlequins are 5 weeks old, have half their feathers, and are really crowded in the brooder. They are still afraid of me so I'm worried that once I put them in...

so, in feb we bought 10 chicks and two turkeys from a local feed store. No one warned us they couldn't brood together. It was still below freezing during the day, we set them up in the garage with heat lamps and several thermometers. Kept at 105* one day the turkeys died, the the chicks all...

We have been experiencing a heat wave in Nashville since midweek. Today, our hensitter discovered one of our three four-year-old birds dead in the yard. They have two waterers (a plastic fount and a bucket nipple-waterer). I have also been spraying down the area under the waterer every...

My girls were laying decent and one day they just stopped laying period. They don't even sit in the nesting boxes, it's about 90' here and most of my breeds arnt that "buff". Please help the food price is breaking me!

I am looking for some advice on how to best ship baby chicks. I know that there are a lot of variables, such as, what the temperatures are going to be for where you are shipping, and how many chicks you are shipping. I would like to know, how you go about doing it. Do you add a heat pack...

Need help! My red star, Mrs. Featherbottom, has been acting off. She was producing her usual enormous eggs, then April 15 stopped laying and eating normally, and began acting lethargic. I treated the flock for worms and added Corid to their water on the advice of my vet. She perked back up. A...

Brand new to chicks. Our chicks came in the mail yesterday at 3 days old after a 2 1/2 day trip, we have a fairly large brooder 3x4 1/2 roughly. 3 feet tall. It is a wooden crate with a hardwire cover, a premier heat plate in a corner, water dish with rocks, small feed dish, twigs/branches and a...

Greetings. I think I got my second egg today (camera in the hen house), but I am worried about the heat. I am in Arizona and the coop temp is registering 115ºF. If she did lay, the egg has been there for about 2 hours in the heat of the coop. I'm at work and no one to check for eggs until my son...

I have three hens that are about a year old. It's really hot here (90° F) and they're all clucking like crazy! I checked both their food and water--everything is fine. One of them might be on the nesting box but if it was just that not all of them would be clucking, right?? I'm really worried...

So it's been really hot lately where I live, and my chickens have been hiding in the shady area of their run all the time so I think they're feeling the heat to. I figured the best thing to do would be to make an ice treat! I'm gonna get some stuff they like, and some water on top, freeze a...

Hi all! Every night my hens roost inside the coop and we close the door to the run for that extra protection. Its REALLY hot right now, and I'm wondering, what should I do to keep them cool inside the coop? Also, I've been misting the sand during the day in the run and putting ice in the water...

We did it! We brought our little dude back to life! After I had left for work Thursday morning, my boyfriend, Jake, found little Rudy barely breathing in the coop. He was undoubtedly moments away from losing his life. Jake called to tell me what had happened, and knowing that he had to leave, I...

Ok, so I've had chickens for about four years now in this Phoenix Arizona heat. The second year, I had one die, most likely summer heat or suffocation. Temps were over 100 as usual. And it seemed like the other RIR girls liked to pile on her ? Americauna? since she was the biggest one. Fast...