is whiny dead??UPDATE!!!SHE DIED ):

[bungaree chickens]

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I keep trying to figure that out, but what is a chickens temp supposed to be?? Is it like human temp, lower, higher??? This would help if I could figure this out, thanks duckman!!

 

[bungaree chickens]

and where is the best place for me to touch to measure her temp, I know their feet are always cold...her chest? under her wing?

 

[pinkfeather]

The body temperature of an adult chicken is 103 and a chick is 106.7.

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

Higher than humans. Varies between 104 and 107.

 

[bungaree chickens]

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but, if they were sick....could it be lower? I am pretty sure she was no where near that temp.
I will go right now and check under her wing, is that where I should gage from?

thanks pinkfeather!!!!

 

[pinkfeather]

Um.. don't you have to put the themometer inside the chicken?? Like up the vent or in the mouth.

 

[bungaree chickens]

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I only have an ear thermometer!! (for kids!!!) that wouldn't work anywhere right?? it has disposable covers.

 

[ruth]

If she is still opening and closing her mouth she is NOT dead. You can dip your finger in sugar water and rub it on side of beak to get a little in her. You can also try it with raw egg yolk to get a little liquid nourishment in her. Sounds like she is malnourished (starving to death). It would be best to hold her with her head up and in a slight tilt backwards like when they drink. Just don't squirt any liquid down her throat or she could drown.

I found Ruth like that one day and had to do the egg yolk till she revivied enough to be hand fed. First a liquidy mush by dropper till she could eat on her own. At first my hubby kept saying the same thing - "she's dead" but she lived to tell a different tale.

 

[bungaree chickens]

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do you really think she could be malnourished, she was just eating yesterday, and last night? I will try the egg yoke, and tilting the head back. Thanks ruth!!!

 

[Julie08]

make sure shes warm get her under a heat lamp right away, we had one exactly like that one hour under the heat she was up and moving good luck!