Barred rock dead by dogs pool

[sawilliams]

We have a pond and though my chickens don’t go into it normally, we had one avoid being caught one year and we watched as she swam across this one acre pond in freezing weather. I have seen others here on BYC in swimming pools, but if the water was too low for your chicken to walk out of, I can imagine that drowning might happen. I wonder if leaning a small ladder down to the bottom where they could climb out would work? Or changing the dog’s pool to a shorter kiddie pool might be safer. Sorry that you lost the hen and I hope that the other one is okay. We have a bloodhound, Elvis, who loves to wade in the pond several times a day.

Thank you, I might have to get a kiddy pool again for next year if I can't get the fencing done. This is like 2 foot tall even if the water was low enough for the chickens to stand they would have to jump in and jump out. Though if they decided to swim it is quite possibly just low enough they couldn't get out easily. No daisy is to violent in the water to put any type of a ladder, though maybe I can have hubby find a large rock to make at least a shallowish landing for the chickens to climb on to get out. The reason we went with something bigger and stronger is she digs at the edges and her version of splashing is more of a thrashing.

Its about that time of the year that I'll probably dump it soon and put it away until next year.

Update on the cinnamon queen though. I turned off the heat lamp and gave her another hard boiled egg as she finished the first. They are just little bantam and pullet eggs. She's moving around now, Ahmed doesn't seem to have any I'll effects away the moment. I might put her out in the med pen for the night to see how she does. She's currently in Daisy's crate so I'll have to move her one way or another.

 

[PattyNH]

I'm so sorry for your loss... However I also question the idea that the chickens drowned. We have a pool/pond in our backyard and the chickens drink out of it all the time. No one has ever gotten injured- save a chick my (at the time) 4 yr old thought would like a tubby - she's fine now lol Anyhow, have you given any consideration to the idea that something happened with the chicken and your dog? Not like the dog hurt her on purpose but maybe was too "attentive" and smothered her somehow? I know the idea is hard to think about, and I'm honestly not trying to be upsetting, but could that be a possibility?

 

[sawilliams]

I'm so sorry for your loss... However I also question the idea that the chickens drowned. We have a pool/pond in our backyard and the chickens drink out of it all the time. No one has ever gotten injured- save a chick my (at the time) 4 yr old thought would like a tubby - she's fine now lol Anyhow, have you given any consideration to the idea that something happened with the chicken and your dog? Not like the dog hurt her on purpose but maybe was too "attentive" and smothered her somehow? I know the idea is hard to think about, and I'm honestly not trying to be upsetting, but could that be a possibility?

Oh no, I understand. I am guessing that my dog certainly scared or knocked the chickens in. Though it had never happened before she'd does tend to go check on then when they are on the pool. But again at the level the water was at it would have been difficult regardless of how they got in for them to have gotten out. And I would not be surprised that if a chick was struggling in the water Daisy may have gone in to try to help (or play with her new water friend). But there first already had issues and could possibly have died then fell in or the simple shock of falling in could have killed her. The second chicken I do my suspect she was possibly knocked in or scared in, and Daisy is simply not understanding that chickens are not ment as swim buddies. Plus it really is a small pool for such a large dog ants get simply jumping in with a chicken in the water could submerge the chicken or cuase a non visible injury.

 

[Eggcessive]

My bloodhound slobbers so badly, that the other dogs (or our cats,) will not drink out of his bowl, LOL. So we have a collection of 2 gallon plastic buckets from TSC that we fill up at least twice a day, so everyone gets some fresh water. We have 2 yard chickens that he doesn't bother unless he takes their food, but our other chickens live in their own fenced in yard. He sneaks under their poultry netting, to get to their yard, but they don't come into the main yard.

We used to have horses and a 100 gallon water trough, and I always worried if the chickens would fall in if they got up on the sides. That is why I had considered a ladder.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I happened to get a light bulb when it was said the rock but solve this if you could be sure to keep it clean of moss or water growth they could get on it just big enough to climb and stand on ?

 

[sawilliams]

So update on the second wet chicken. She was much more lively after her second egg yesterday and even tried to escape the crate so I took her out side. Didn't even make it around the house before she was fighting to get down so i put her by the front shed where the chicken food is (in eye sight of the coop) and gave her some sunflower seeds. She's good fine the rest of the day and he's been doing fine all day today.

Also no more wet chickens today. I noticed they have been staying away from the back area. I don't know if this is becuase they have extra water in other places now or if they are trying to avoid daisy and her pool. Either way at least no one went for a swim.

 

[pennyJo1960]

May not have any more issues then may have solved itself

 

[PattyNH]

So update on the second wet chicken. She was much more lively after her second egg yesterday and even tried to escape the crate so I took her out side. Didn't even make it around the house before she was fighting to get down so i put her by the front shed where the chicken food is (in eye sight of the coop) and gave her some sunflower seeds. She's good fine the rest of the day and he's been doing fine all day today.

Also no more wet chickens today. I noticed they have been staying away from the back area. I don't know if this is becuase they have extra water in other places now or if they are trying to avoid daisy and her pool. Either way at least no one went for a swim.

Awesome! And, by the way, Daisy is gorgeous

 

[Animalfisherwoman]

The state of California will respond to birds who've died of disease (California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) hotline at 1-866-922-2473).