- Jul 3, 2013
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I love my chickens and always try to find them the best homes.. yesterday I brought 2 of my young roosters that I love so much but cant keep, to a lady with a farm.
I brought them to her house so she can watch them until they go to farm later.
She put them in the shade in a cage with food and water and told me she will bring them to the farm later when her husband home, she just had a baby so she couldn't drive herself. The boys looked good all seemed fine so i said my goodbye and left the boys there..
Three hours later I got a call telling me both boys were dead of heat stroke. The lady that took them told me she checked on them every 20 minutes, her kids even helped watch them, they had food and water and were ok until last time she said they were panting but she checked and they had water and were in the shade so she left them there, when she came back 20 minutes later both were dead!?..
She claims she tried to revive them and did all she could but she was very sorry she lost both boys. I asked her if i can have their bodies to bury them but she told me her husband already buried them..
So thats it? 2 healthy young (6 months and 1+ year old) can die within 3 hours of heat stroke in a cage with water and in shade at 91F? BOTH of them? Could it have been stress? Or was it something more? Can this really happen or was it something else and they wont tell me the truth?
Im so deviated. It took me a week to muster up the courage to give them away and now they both dead and burned before my kids even home from school.
Did they die of heat stroke or was it something else?
The pictures added are the boys on the way to lady house...
This is last picture I have of them alive.. This picture was taken in my car on way there (they are in my cage in the picture this is not the cage they died in)..
I feel very guilty and so so sad..
I brought them to her house so she can watch them until they go to farm later.
She put them in the shade in a cage with food and water and told me she will bring them to the farm later when her husband home, she just had a baby so she couldn't drive herself. The boys looked good all seemed fine so i said my goodbye and left the boys there..
Three hours later I got a call telling me both boys were dead of heat stroke. The lady that took them told me she checked on them every 20 minutes, her kids even helped watch them, they had food and water and were ok until last time she said they were panting but she checked and they had water and were in the shade so she left them there, when she came back 20 minutes later both were dead!?..
She claims she tried to revive them and did all she could but she was very sorry she lost both boys. I asked her if i can have their bodies to bury them but she told me her husband already buried them..
So thats it? 2 healthy young (6 months and 1+ year old) can die within 3 hours of heat stroke in a cage with water and in shade at 91F? BOTH of them? Could it have been stress? Or was it something more? Can this really happen or was it something else and they wont tell me the truth?
Im so deviated. It took me a week to muster up the courage to give them away and now they both dead and burned before my kids even home from school.
Did they die of heat stroke or was it something else?
The pictures added are the boys on the way to lady house...
This is last picture I have of them alive.. This picture was taken in my car on way there (they are in my cage in the picture this is not the cage they died in)..
I feel very guilty and so so sad..
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