coop caught on fire- emergency

[PoultryGirly]

How did your fire start?

 

[kschicks]

Unfortunately, it could have been prevented but I was stubborn and felt my chickens needed a heat lamp. Minutes after I had locked them in the coop for the night a fire started. I'm in my first year of raising chickens,since I have discovered the amount of heat chickens put off and as long as they are provided a draft free home there is no need of a heat lamp.

 

[PoultryGirly]

Oh, I'm so sorry! How did you know there was a fire out there!

 

[kschicks]

Luckily we were still outside, but it happened so fast and most of my chickens were still young, and within those few minutes I lost 13 chickens from the amount of smoke that the straw produced. The one that has survived was the closest to the door. It was tough lesson to learn from.

 

[kschicks]

I notice you have 2 mallards... we have 5 and thankfully they have adopted our 'henny penny' (the chicken that survived).

 

[PoultryGirly]

Wow, so so sorry.

 

[PoultryGirly]

How is the one chicken doing and where does she live?

 

[kschicks]

She has fully recovered! Thanks for asking. The coop that caught on fire had just been built - it was beautiful - since the fire she hasn't been near the coop and has returned to her previous coop in the barn where all the other barnyard animals sleep.