My chicken is dead.Help!

[aart]

another idea is to use PVC pipes as waterers and branch them in the coop...

they will act like the old school radiators but in a cooling way. i am thinking about doing this. in the summer it will cool and in the winter it will warm

Only if you heat, or cool, and circulate the water in the pipes

 

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We are devastated with one of our chicken dying and still trying to process what could have happened.
We are first time chicken farmers and have 4 chickens(two BO , one Speckled sussex and one NewHampshire red).

The two BO's are about a year old and the other two are about 8 months.
The BO's are also a little heavy and the dead one if the biggest(and much loved) among the two.

We live in Northern califormia and had a heat wave on Wednesday(90+ degrees), Thursday(100+). Usually all the chickens voluntarily
go in the coop as it gets dark but on Thursday night the two buff Orpington's did not want to go into the coop and after cooling down the coop we placed them in the coop. We realized that it got very hot for them and next day we offered more cold treats and water holes, misted them and all of them were behaving normally
so breathed a sigh of relief. Saturday went about smoothly , they went into the coop on their own both on Friday and Saturday nights.

We were pretty busy on Sunday with fathers day and all, made sure they had water, gave them treats, greens etc and even though one of them is not present
during the times, we just thought she is playing someplace else. But when we went to check in the evening, we found our beloved BO just sitting in the spot where they usually lay eggs, dead. It was pretty shocking and we did not further inspect as our young child( he goes around saying, i love all the chickens, but Chuckles(which is the BO's name) is my favorite) is around. Later we buried her in our backyard without much further inspection and thought it must be due to the heat wave..

But now we wonder if its really heat wave?? Every article and post i read says that if a chicken has heat stroke she wont even be able to get up but ours looked normal and going about her business for almost two days.

So question is, has anyone had the same experience where a chicken had heat stroke but seems to be normal only to die a coupla days later. Could the cause be something else? I am attaching the picture of her before we disposed her.

Thanks
Chickmama.

I had to go to the vet in Mexico for the day and it was 119. I didnt realize how hot it was. Everyone lost chickens that day. I lost eight including my favorite. I then lost one the next day and one the day after even though it wasnt as hot. It probably had gotten sick from the 119 day and they couldnt recover. One chicken that was still alive but panting and lying on its side with her eyes closed made a full recovery. I kept her on the bed with the dogs and cats for over a week. When it was time to go back outside she didnt want to leave the bed. I then took all the chickens out of the chicken house and yard and put them on my back porch under shade with a fan and three kiddie pools. Even the ac wont keep them alive in such hot weather.