San Diego Chicken meetup and Chat thread

[Phage]

The heat is brutal out here. Lost 9 two month old chicks today. And a hen. They had water .they had food and shade. Fine this morning dead in the coop this afternoon.***!!!!! Ugh. I wanted to fall over when I found them . Deep sorrow.

So sad.. but I am holding on to some cream legbars for you.

 

[perchie.girl]

The heat is brutal out here. Lost 9 two month old chicks today. And a hen. They had water .they had food and shade. Fine this morning dead in the coop this afternoon.***!!!!! Ugh. I wanted to fall over when I found them . Deep sorrow.

So sorry OGM... I think they just loose their appetite.... but you know as with horses their digestion is delicate to oustide influences... That whole probiotic thing.... I bet the heat really does a number on what ever they have in thier crop and gut....

deb "who is just speculating"

 

[OffGridMAMA]

Thanks everyone, only other chicken people understand. I've lost some in this past year (this weekend was my one year anniversary of owning chickens). But not ten in one day. I'm just sick to my stomach over it. I feel responsible for their well-being and well today I failed them. Ugh. Just thinking thinking.

 

[perchie.girl]

Thanks everyone, only other chicken people understand. I've lost some in this past year (this weekend was my one year anniversary of owning chickens). But not ten in one day. I'm just sick to my stomach over it. I feel responsible for their well-being and well today I failed them. Ugh. Just thinking thinking.

You didn't fail this kind of weather is murder on chickens....

. Even me whos had them on and off for more than twenty five years now. I lost forty guineas when I got back into it.... sometimes you get a cascade failure that you just cant predict.

deb

 

[alisar]

I just lost one the other day. It's just so humid, I don't think they can handle it.

 

[hcrossn]

SAN DIEGO MEET UP TIME!​

***SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28TH, 2013***​

***10am***​

Collier County Park

626 E. Street
Ramona, CA 92065

Directions: On Main Street (Highway 67/78) in Ramona turn right on 7th Street, then left on E Street. The park is on the corner of 7th and E Street.

Everyone Please, bring a dish to share for potluck!!
Feel free to bring your birds and anything you would like to trade or share. Please make sure and bring your own sales table.

Bring a chair and a box or cage to bring chickens home in!

Don't forget about the Amazing Raffle table many items have all ready been donated!!!


Please post your RSVP, what dish you will be bringing & what you will have for sale.

Can't wait to see Everybody & all your chicks, chickens & rooster's!​

 

[OScarlet]

Oh I'm sorry!

 

[Corimckee]

Well **** this mama showed up here after weeks of being missing with 10 chicks. Moved them all into a coop and now she is up on the roost and the chicks are down in the run huddled together. Will she come down if they start peeping for her?? Its 85 degrees still here in Harbision Canyon . ugh HELP!!

 

[perchie.girl]

Well **** this mama showed up here after weeks of being missing with 10 chicks. Moved them all into a coop and now she is up on the roost and the chicks are down in the run huddled together. Will she come down if they start peeping for her?? Its 85 degrees still here in Harbision Canyon . ugh HELP!!

Id make them up a broody pen with no perches and no way for anyone to escape.... Momma will warm them if they need it....
Is this her first time?

deb

 

[Knock Kneed Hen]

Thanks everyone, only other chicken people understand. I've lost some in this past year (this weekend was my one year anniversary of owning chickens). But not ten in one day. I'm just sick to my stomach over it. I feel responsible for their well-being and well today I failed them. Ugh. Just thinking thinking.

That's sad. Try putting something they can wade in. I have a kiddie pool and when it gets really hot they'll stand in it. Just like we dip our feel in a pool when hot, it really cools you down. Another is to just dump a bag of ice in the shade in the run. The ice will melt slowly giving them a VERY cool place to dig a hole and lay in.