Chicken suffered heat stroke - recovery advice?

[jaforster]

Live in Portland area and my 2 yr old barred rock experienced severe heat stroke yesterday - found her laying down almost passed out. We brought her inside, used cool water to cool her down but she was suffering from seizure symptoms including muscle spasms etc. Throughout the eventing, she was slowly improving - couldn't sit up last night and feet curled up. By the end of the night she is sitting upright and drank a few tiny sips of poultry electrolyte water, but her comb was dark on the edges and shriveled. Today she's still barely sipping electrolyte water, sleeps almost all the time but is sitting upright and her comb is red and plump. She pooped a fair amount of yellowish watery diarrhea this morning. Is it likely she'll recover? Any other advice on what to do other than continue to encourage drinking and letting her sleep in cool dark room? Thank you!

 

[jrpierce72]

I am so sorry to hear about your hen. We are in Medford and despite everything we could do for our chickens to keep them cooler we lost a hen yesterday. Hopefully the heat goes away soon. 116 is just too hot.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I lost a hen due to heat stroke in weather above 90°F, about 3, or so weeks ago.
I was disappointed.

 

[aart]

Any other advice on what to do other than continue to encourage drinking and letting her sleep in cool dark room?

That's about all you can do.

 

[jaforster]

We lost her tonight - her breathing became labored and raspy throughout the day. Tried using a syringe to help get fluids down. So sad - she was our favorite sweet girl

 

[aart]

We lost her tonight

So Sorry

Tried using a syringe to help get fluids down

Be very careful doing this in the future:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...dications-to-all-poultry-and-waterfowl.73335/

 

[Sophia Gallina]

I'm sorry to hear this. I'm sure she enjoyed her time with you so try and focus on that.