She had wings out, panting, as they usually do when it's hot, but her eyes were vacant and she wasn't able to take more than a step before going down on her hocks. Her abdomen felt burning hot, so i threw her into a partially filled bucket of cool, not cold water. She had no appetite, and didn't want even to drink at first, but i was able to coax grapes down her once she was cooled and after a while she had eaten some of my concentrated vitamin pellets, and drank a ton. Heat distress is pretty obvious. If their poo goes bright green it is bad, that means the liver is failing. Also, if the white is blending with the green, the digestive system can also not be seperating the liquids from the solids. (liquid altogether is just overdrinking, that is normal for this kind of situation.
Hers had been lighter than normal, and the solids not well seperated. but had i been able to seperate her without her going into distress and pacing herself to death in a cage i could have saved her.
This morning she was bright eyed and cheerful, and once she started eating she was going about as usual, but a tad slower and her comb was pale. I knew the rooster was a risk, but she wouldn't live without him, so i kept them supervised so she would keep eating. It only took a second, he saw his chance and he being a bird didn't understand why i had been keeping him away............Had i been able to catch him and put him out of the pen before he darted it wouldn't have happened, that much at least you guys can learn from my mistake.
