^ deaths averted---DON'T DO THIS!

[Terri O]

So our freezer got unplugged and I gave the chickens some bread dough that was thawed and rising. HA! I should have gotten a clue when one of the hens got a foot caught in the sticky dough. I go out to do chores tonight and there were 6 of my 7 3 week old chicks caught up in the dough! I brought them in and bathed them and blow dried them and now they are under the heat lamp with my bator hatched chicks that are 2 months and GIANT compared to them. All seem to be getting on OK and I did not return the little babies back to the coop with their mama because I thought they might still be a little damp and I was afraid of a chill.
So--do not give thawed and rising dough to hens unless you divide it up into little pieces! Be forwarned! Terri O

 

[wvgal61]

Couldn't it raise in the belly and kill them?

 

[Pupsnpullets]

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Just what I was thinking.

 

[Terri O]

I wasnt worried about that...it was plenty risen already! Just way too sticky for them to do the "chicken in a bread pan pickin' out dough" thing! Terri O