Do chickens pant?

[andorraclaim]

My silkies and showgirls are panting in the hot Texas sun. Is this normal or a symptom of a disease? Droppings are normal, eyes, and nostrils are fine...

 

[chickenlittle32]

It is normal with the heat. Mine pant and open their wings a little bit to help cool themselves off.

 

[IHeartCapnHook]

Oh, they pant in the Texas sun!!!

 

[Judy]

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They pant in south Georgia shade, too....

 

[andorraclaim]

All this MG/MS talk lately and I was starting to wig out a little.

 

[Jolyn]

Last summer i thought mine were dying of heat stroke because they were panting so much. They were fine but i did add a fan and misters in the coop and run!! It gets so darn hot here in Sacramento.

 

[1birdlady]

Oh yes, our 4 girls DO pant in our Texas heat.
Most of the hot afternoon, they just rest, or nap...... just today, put a large pan of water in their run, with a blue ice thing in it, and they LOVED it!

We did this in the afternoon, around 5pm and by 7 the ice thing was done and the pan of water muddy. But they had a good time with it..sipping and drinking the whole 2 hrs.

 

[imtc]

I'm in Austin, Tx. and have an EE that's been doing the same thing. I'm glad someone else opened a thread about the panting...I was a bit worried myself after all the talk of MG.

 

[andorraclaim]

According to the local chicken masters I know, other than MG and CRD, gape worm would be the only other disease symptomatic of panting. But, we supposedly never get gape worm down here.

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[freefly]

90 here. I put ice in there water
They love it