how to tell if a chicken is dead?

[Guinea Goonie]

Well.....

This is actually a good question !! If your bird is in a cold weather environment they can be alive after you warm them up.

Never seen or done it myself, but several on here have.

 

[yab]

sometimes if they're really sick, though, they can fall into a coma.. they breathe very little during that period, and it's hard to tell if they're still alive or not.. but i would wait til rigor sets in before trying to bury them.. burying a live chicken would be a nightmare

 

[HorseFeathers]

If they breathe and wake up when you poke them, they're alive.

I flipped out a couple times when we first got chicks. I was SO SURE they were dead... but then you poke them and they spring up like little jack in the boxes...

 

[HorseFeathers]

ROTFL rimshoes!

 

[augiedranch]

These stories are making me sad. Those poor things probably suffered while trying to be killed. ..

 

[Choooooooooks]

Thats sooo mean is your chook died u would not think it's funny

 

[hcarol]

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If they been dead just a little while they will be stiff.

If their eye is open touch their eye.

If you pick it up you should feel the difference in warmth and they are light sleepers it should perk up.

Will

Thanks Will for being serious, I need to take my hen is to be tested as soon as I know she has passed.

 

[snow5164]

Do you know @hcarol that this thread is 9 years old ?

Just saying ... it’s from 2009

 

[dpenning]

Do you know @hcarol that this thread is 9 years old ?

Just saying ... it’s from 2009

Yeah but the stories are kinda fun. Unless you are the roosters.

I had a rooster that I rescued from my dogs mouth three times. The first time I thought it was dead. He had jumped the fence into the dog yard and got nabbed. I ran out there and took him out of my dogs mouth. He was limp so I dropped him over the fence to take him out to the woods and toss him. By the time I got back through the house the body was no longer on the side of the fence. That night I saw him hovering around the coop, not able to get over another fence so I put him in. Other two times he didn't play dead, just gave me a beady eyed stare as I told my dog to drop it. Then he saunters off....

 

[snow5164]

I know @dpenning I haven’t had a belly laugh like this for a long time , not sure if I should feel guilty ..... but it’s really funny !!

This is the one and only post from the OP??