EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[BantyChooks]

I have heard that they will fly up into a low roof and kill themselves!

One of mine escaped from its pen and the other appeared to get heat stroke. It was an 85° day, so I could understand that being the cause.... but I had almost the entire cage shaded.

 

[Phage]

One of mine escaped from its pen and the other appeared to get heat stroke. It was an 85° day, so I could understand that being the cause.... but I had almost the entire cage shaded.

Heat stroke???
Your birds????
Thought it was always cold there???

 

[BantyChooks]

Heat stroke???
Your birds????
Thought it was always cold there???

Unfortunately we do indeed have summers where it gets above freezing. Like I said, it had gotten up to 85*F that day. Or maybe it was 80*F? Whatever it was, it felt miserable. The chickens made it through all right (the bantams were thrilled, the LF stayed in the shade and panted) but evidently it was too much for the cot. I haven't lost anything else to heat stroke in the ~200 I have had.

It felt rather warm and it was panting and on its side. Could have been something else but heat stroke is my best guess, given the temperature on that day.

 

[kwhites634]

Unfortunately we do indeed have summers where it gets above freezing. Like I said, it had gotten up to 85*F that day. Or maybe it was 80*F? Whatever it was, it felt miserable. The chickens made it through all right (the bantams were thrilled, the LF stayed in the shade and panted) but evidently it was too much for the cot. I haven't lost anything else to heat stroke in the ~200 I have had.

It felt rather warm and it was panting and on its side. Could have been something else but heat stroke is my best guess, given the temperature on that day.

I'd give my front seat in H3LL for an 80* day here in July & August.

 

[kwhites634]

Unfortunately we do indeed have summers where it gets above freezing. Like I said, it had gotten up to 85*F that day. Or maybe it was 80*F? Whatever it was, it felt miserable. The chickens made it through all right (the bantams were thrilled, the LF stayed in the shade and panted) but evidently it was too much for the cot. I haven't lost anything else to heat stroke in the ~200 I have had.

It felt rather warm and it was panting and on its side. Could have been something else but heat stroke is my best guess, given the temperature on that day.

I'd give my front seat in H3LL for an 80* day here in July & August.

 

[BantyChooks]

I'd give my front seat in H3LL for an 80* day here in July & August.

I don't think I'd take said front seat, thanks. Your summers sound terrible.

Average highs stay in the seventies all summer here, but we do get the odd boiling hot days. I would not mind moving farther north.

 

[kwhites634]

I don't think I'd take said front seat, thanks. Your summers sound terrible.

Average highs stay in the seventies all summer here, but we do get the odd boiling hot days. I would not mind moving farther north.

Oh...the edge of the Arctic Circle isn't enough?

 

[BantyChooks]

Oh...the edge of the Arctic Circle isn't enough?

Nope. I'd like to swear off summer completely.

 

[Akrnaf2]

Unfortunately we do indeed have summers where it gets above freezing. Like I said, it had gotten up to 85*F that day. Or maybe it was 80*F? Whatever it was, it felt miserable. The chickens made it through all right (the bantams were thrilled, the LF stayed in the shade and panted) but evidently it was too much for the cot. I haven't lost anything else to heat stroke in the ~200 I have had.

It felt rather warm and it was panting and on its side. Could have been something else but heat stroke is my best guess, given the temperature on that day.

It does not make any sense because Cotornix origin is from North Africa and the Arabian peninsula. And 85F is 30C and that is NOTHING for this birds.

 

[kwhites634]

Nope. I'd like to swear off summer completely.

You're unbelievable! What about your birds' comfort? Would you develop a strain with down instead of feathers, or whale blubber in place of their normal skin?