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Your stronger than I.
Jipus5 said:
Just went outside.  I had zip tied really heavy the new ferret cage to the small steel chick cage.
Bucky, our 7 month old German Shepherd/Blue Heeler mix dog,  had eaten the zipties off then broken the doors on the cages and all my babies, even the ones I bought are dead, eaten, just gone.
 I caught him up to his shoulders still in the baby cage gnawing on the last one...  I am just over whelmed.  My whole stock of babies for the year... eaten.
Sad thing was, I was outside 45 minutes ago.  Closed up the coop and all was fine.  Foxes attacked a few days ago and they couldn't get in at the babies so i was thinking GREAT!!
... but my dog did.
Such an awful night.
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Angelicisi said:
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oh Nooooo sorry to here. It may have very well been the heat.
I wasn't a strong believer (it hadn't happened to me yet) in chickens and heat issues. Shoot...Texas plains and death valley in cali people free ranged chickens, they can DO heat! But then I realized that was multiple generations raised and hatched in those heats. Most chickens here with some exceptions are ordered from hatcheries up north...or only hatched in cooler seasons and we haven't yet bred multiple generations of them in the heat yet.

Heat index here was 105 yesterday, I almost lost my ameraucana again, limp, rolling eyes, panting. Again we cooled her but it was only by chance we even were here to see her. She's not doing well AT ALL in the heat and she's got the smallest eggs to produce, lightest color feathers and overall built better for the heat than my RIRs who do great in any temp.
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Ya know, I hatch chicks each year from February until October. They stay inside for 2-3 weeks then to cages outside allowing them access to grass etc, new spots each day.
Food and water are always full, and I always have something over the top to block direct sun. I haven't had a death from heat or even symptoms of heat stress. I DO at times use blocks of ice in their water containers. Each day they would get another block. My grown chickens tend to go under the house during the hot hours, there is sand there and they bath in it.
I DO believe that hatching them and raising them during warm months teaches them to handle the heat, at least that is my experience...
 
Quick Hi hope everyone survived the storms yesterday evening -- we had a humdinger roll through here right at 5:00 -- high winds, heavy rain, lots of thunder & lightning & even a few minutes of hail! When I rounded the corner to home, a huge pecan tree was split in half, covering most of the road & the other half laying across a line -- 50 feet further down another tree in same position. I inched around them & got home, wondering why we still had power? - but my husband checked & said it was telephone lines not power. (he was a lineman in the AF) The highway crew was there until late clearing the road.

Came into work to find a transformer had blown - our 3 story building had no AC, no elevators working, no copiers working! We now are starting to get a little cold air, one elevator is working but the other one has something burnt so will be down a week (I'm so glad I work on the 1st floor)! and I'm still waiting on the copier guy but I have a little backup copier working.

Sorry to hear about all the dead chicks -- it's not easy raising chickens! I think the first few years, I lost about as many as I successfully raised to adulthood. Keep trying ya'll!
 
TerriLaChicks said:
Quick Hi hope everyone survived the storms yesterday evening -- we had a humdinger roll through here right at 5:00 -- high winds, heavy rain, lots of thunder & lightning & even a few minutes of hail! When I rounded the corner to home, a huge pecan tree was split in half, covering most of the road & the other half laying across a line -- 50 feet further down another tree in same position. I inched around them & got home, wondering why we still had power? - but my husband checked & said it was telephone lines not power. (he was a lineman in the AF)  The highway crew was there until late clearing the road.

Came into work to find a transformer had blown - our 3 story building had no AC, no elevators working, no copiers working! We now are starting to get a little cold air, one elevator is working but the other one has something burnt so will be down a week (I'm so glad I work on the 1st floor)! and I'm still waiting on the copier guy but I have a little backup copier working.

Sorry to hear about all the dead chicks -- it's not easy raising chickens! I think the first few years, I lost about as many as I successfully raised to adulthood. Keep trying ya'll!
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I have legbars! I also ended up getting Bielefelders too. Have a happy 4th of July . Pam
 

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